With Peak TV still in full swing, there are many many shows out there and also quite a number of cancellations each year. And for many of the cancellations, there are fan campaigns that try and save these shows. We at Cancelled Sci Fi support the efforts of fans lobbying for their shows and want to do our part to help. We have put together info on what we believe are the most effective means of helping a show at our Call to Action page. And if you have an active campaign for a sci fi / fantasy entry, we are happy to host a page with the info detailing your efforts to save the show. See the information below, and if you would like us to host a page for you, email as at cancelledscifi [at] gmail [dot] com.
Save My Show Campaign Page
A very important factor if you are campaigning to save a show is to have focused, consolidated information in one main location. Too many times I have seen campaigns that have plenty of support but that are too disjointed to bring the fans together in full force. So each campaign needs to have a go to point where it delivers clear and concise information to the fans on its goals. That concentration of information could be the most important factor in the campaign’s success. There are any of a number of places to post this information such as blog sites, Facebook, Twitter, etc. And we are happy to post a page here at Cancelled Sci Fi and will also help with passing the word along. We also invite you to post campaign information at our Reddit site r/SciFiTV. And wherever you put your campaign page, make sure you find a site that does not require membership (or fees) to see the page (Reddit requires membership for comments, but not viewing the page), otherwise that will significantly reduce traffic.
Sample Campaign Page
Following is a sample campaign page that you can use as a template:
Campaign to Save the CBS Series Time Express from Cancellation
Purpose: To save the CBS series Time Express which has recently been cancelled. This is the best sci fi TV show on television since Holmes and Yo-Yo and Vincent Price is fantastic as the host. We want to convince CBS to change their mind about the cancellation or persuade another network to pick up the show. We are staging viewing parties every Thursday at 8 PM EST where we will watch an agreed upon episode on the network website and/or Hulu. Watch for announcements each week on which episode to watch. We are also doing a Twitter Storm in conjunction with the viewing party, sending tweets that include the hashtag #SaveTimeExpress. Be sure to include @CBS, @TheCW, @Hulu, and @Netflix with as many of these tweets as possible as those are the networks we are targeting.
We are also asking for fans to sign our online petition and to contact the networks above either through Email, their contact forms, and/or snail mail to request that the show be renewed for a second season.
Click on each of the links below for the contact information for that network:
Also be sure to follow our Blog, Facebook Page, and Twitter Site, and to sign the Online Petition:
This week’s viewing party will be watching the episode “Death / The Boxer” on Thursday at 8 PM EST. And be sure to check this page on a regular basis for updates.
[Note: There really was a series titled Time Express and Vincent Price really was the host. It was an anthology series that aired only four episodes in Spring of 1979. It was sort of The Love Boat on a train that travels back in time. More on that one at this link. There was also a series titled Holmes and Yo Yo which was a sitcom about a cop teamed up with a robot. It was cancelled after thirteen episodes and a young Jay Leno had his second television appearance in the pilot as a gas station attendant.]
Save My Show Page at Cancelled Sci Fi
If you want us to host a campaign page, or if you want to use us as another location to get the word out, please pull together all of the information on the campaign and put it in the general format you want, then email it to us at cancelledscifi [at] gmail [dot] com. It’s probably a good idea to message us at the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site to let us know you sent the email in case it gets shuffled into the spam folder. Give us at least a week to get the page posted and we reserve the right to edit content where appropriate so that it meets site guidelines (we will place ads on the page as well). Note that we will not run the campaign, but we are more than happy to help get the word out. Note also that for the most part we are only hosting pages for sci fi / fantasy shows, though we will consider exceptions for shows that might be of interest to genre fans (i.e., Freaks and Geeks) or have a star well known for one of more genre shows (i.e., Summer Glau). We wish you well in your efforts to save your show and will do what we can to assist in your cause.