Save me mister walking man if you can
I am the Queen of Dead TV Shows. Firefly folks are pikers as far as I'm concerned. I might give you a little credit if you've heard of Profit, but only a little. How about Vengeance Unlimited? That's still more well known than a lot of the shows I have loved and lost too soon. Lost Souls, anyone? Wonderland? No, not Wonderfalls. E-Z Streets? Omigod I could go on about Joe Pantoliano's freezer of spare hands and Debrah Farentino's black eye.
So anyway, I saw a story about fans of The 4400 who are sending bags of sunflower seeds to network executives in hopes of getting the cancellation of their show reversed. A line in the story mentioned that the idea was modeled on the campaign involving a deluge of peanuts that successfully saved Jericho. Uh, wha? Try Roswell and bottles of Tabasco sauce.
Incidentally, when similar campaigns were being considered for The Dresden Files, it was mentioned that quite a lot of this kind of thing stops at the mailroom, which means that (a)it wouldn't have much if any direct influence on TPTB, and (b)it might be more likely to tick off the deluged mailroom workers, which can't possibly end well.
So, perhaps we can assume that the Roswell campaign was successful in part due to its novelty and that the Jericho campaign may have been successful for non-peanut-related reasons. Perhaps the publicity generated by the stunts rather than the stunts themselves was what was actually effective.
What do you think works in such campaigns and why? Also, if you can remember other similar save-our-show campaigns, I'd love it if you'd mention them in a comment.
So anyway, I saw a story about fans of The 4400 who are sending bags of sunflower seeds to network executives in hopes of getting the cancellation of their show reversed. A line in the story mentioned that the idea was modeled on the campaign involving a deluge of peanuts that successfully saved Jericho. Uh, wha? Try Roswell and bottles of Tabasco sauce.
Incidentally, when similar campaigns were being considered for The Dresden Files, it was mentioned that quite a lot of this kind of thing stops at the mailroom, which means that (a)it wouldn't have much if any direct influence on TPTB, and (b)it might be more likely to tick off the deluged mailroom workers, which can't possibly end well.
So, perhaps we can assume that the Roswell campaign was successful in part due to its novelty and that the Jericho campaign may have been successful for non-peanut-related reasons. Perhaps the publicity generated by the stunts rather than the stunts themselves was what was actually effective.
What do you think works in such campaigns and why? Also, if you can remember other similar save-our-show campaigns, I'd love it if you'd mention them in a comment.