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SAVE FARSCAPE -- I need your help!
Hi everyone who reads this journal - I'm desparate, and I need your help. Farscape, the show around which my emotional life has been revolving for the last one and a half years, has been cancelled. Only those of you who've had their favourite show cancelled before can understand what that means. At the moment, it means I'm a nervous wreck sitting at my computer taking turns crying and writing mails. I'm actually too distraught to write a coherent entrz here, but I need you help, so I'll just post the appeal I just mailed to everybody here:
Hi everybody,
some of you probably already know this, and some of you probably don't care all that much, but most of you - not all - are to some degree fannish people and may understand the desperation of a fan whose show has been cancelled.
The day before yesterday Farscape, which was regarded by many the best scifi show currently on the air, has been cancelled. Yes, that´s right, a show that has won awards left right and center, that the critics have on more than one occasion raved about and that has a fast growing fandom even in countries where it is not currently on the air, has been cancelled. Not that it´s been the first time that a great show has been cancelled prematurely... this is the kind of thing that reminds me of all the things that are wrong with 'the system'... ;-) (grinning under tears here)
So, why this mail? Because it´s only been a few dozen hours since the cancellation and Rock and co. are imploring us to write letters, and, well, I figured I´d just send this appeal who might even in the remotest way be interested in Farscape...
So. Some of you are close friends of mine; some of you are fans (maybe not as fanatical as I, but still fans) of the show, and some of you are just general fannish people who may feel some solidarity with this newly-deprived fan. Now, *if* you could find the time to write an e-mail or - better yet - a letter to one or all of the addresses below, we *might* have a chance. I'm not saying there's a big chance, but for us to have *any* kind of chance, we need *lots* of letters. And faxes. And e-mails. So please do me the favour and devote a tiny little bit of your time to tell the Scifi-Channel that Farscape is a frelling great show whose story arc deserves to be finished instead of left hanging after season four. If you can write to both SciFi and EM-TV (who own Henson), that would of course be best, but if you don't want to devote that much time, just write to the SciFi-Channel. Please, if you can find the time, write a letter and not just an e-mail, because letters - handwritten, if possible - count the most. It won't take much of your time, but it might just give one piece of quality TV the chance it deserves.
Do I have to kneel down and beg? ;-)
Thanks.
Hmpf - distraught in Frankfurt
PS: If you don't want to write a letter, even a postcard might do.
Deutscher Text (German text, for the German speakers among you):
BRIEF AN (letter to):
EM.TV & Merchandising AG
Betastr. 11
85774 Unterföhring
FAXEN AN (Fax to):
089 995 00 111 (EM TV)
05404 91 92 29 (EM TV Elsner Kommunikation)
089 321 96 578 (Kirch Media)
089 9958 6379 (Premiere)
01805 11 41 12 (Sat.1)
(Online Faxen: http://www.faxen-online.de/Fax_versenden/fax_versenden.shtml)
MAILEN AN (e-mail):
info@em-ag.de
oliver.wiegand@em-ag.de
celia.purrnhagen@em-ag.de
info@elsner-kommunikation.de
info@premiere.de
zuschauerservice@sat1.de
Englischer Text (English text)
BRIEF AN (letters to):
The SciFi Channel
1230 Avenue of the Americas, F115
New York, NY 10020-1513
USA
FAXEN AN (fax to):
001 212 413 6531 (SciF)
001 212 413 6522 (SciFi)
001 212 413 6524 (USA Networks)
001 212 314 7309 (Vivendi USA)
001 818 866 5959 (Vivendi Universal)
011 331 7171 1179 (Vivendi Frankreich)
(Online Faxen: http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html)
MAILEN AN (mail to):
TVonTV@www.scifi.com
program@www.scifi.com
feedback@www.scifi.com
scifiweekly@scifi.com
series@usanetwork.com
An die ganzen englischen Adressen ruhig mehrmals schreiben/faxen/mailen. Die
kriegen bestimmt soviel Post, dass es nicht auffällt wenn etwas doppelt ist.
Und dann macht es natürlich die Masse.
(Feel free to send multiple mails/letters/faxes to the Adresses. They probably get enough mail so that they won't notice. Quantity counts.)
Außerdem:
- Nicht wild beschimpfen
- Briefe/Faxe mit Hand schreiben
- Andere Leute in Foren / anderen Fan-Communities mobilisieren
- An Presse schreiben
(Furthermore:
-Do not swear/insult etc.
-write by hand
-mobilize other fan communities
-inform the press)
Hier kannst Du auch nachschauen (see also):
http://farscape.wdsection.com/
Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/SAVE_FARSCAPE/
Hi everybody,
some of you probably already know this, and some of you probably don't care all that much, but most of you - not all - are to some degree fannish people and may understand the desperation of a fan whose show has been cancelled.
The day before yesterday Farscape, which was regarded by many the best scifi show currently on the air, has been cancelled. Yes, that´s right, a show that has won awards left right and center, that the critics have on more than one occasion raved about and that has a fast growing fandom even in countries where it is not currently on the air, has been cancelled. Not that it´s been the first time that a great show has been cancelled prematurely... this is the kind of thing that reminds me of all the things that are wrong with 'the system'... ;-) (grinning under tears here)
So, why this mail? Because it´s only been a few dozen hours since the cancellation and Rock and co. are imploring us to write letters, and, well, I figured I´d just send this appeal who might even in the remotest way be interested in Farscape...
So. Some of you are close friends of mine; some of you are fans (maybe not as fanatical as I, but still fans) of the show, and some of you are just general fannish people who may feel some solidarity with this newly-deprived fan. Now, *if* you could find the time to write an e-mail or - better yet - a letter to one or all of the addresses below, we *might* have a chance. I'm not saying there's a big chance, but for us to have *any* kind of chance, we need *lots* of letters. And faxes. And e-mails. So please do me the favour and devote a tiny little bit of your time to tell the Scifi-Channel that Farscape is a frelling great show whose story arc deserves to be finished instead of left hanging after season four. If you can write to both SciFi and EM-TV (who own Henson), that would of course be best, but if you don't want to devote that much time, just write to the SciFi-Channel. Please, if you can find the time, write a letter and not just an e-mail, because letters - handwritten, if possible - count the most. It won't take much of your time, but it might just give one piece of quality TV the chance it deserves.
Do I have to kneel down and beg? ;-)
Thanks.
Hmpf - distraught in Frankfurt
PS: If you don't want to write a letter, even a postcard might do.
Deutscher Text (German text, for the German speakers among you):
BRIEF AN (letter to):
EM.TV & Merchandising AG
Betastr. 11
85774 Unterföhring
FAXEN AN (Fax to):
089 995 00 111 (EM TV)
05404 91 92 29 (EM TV Elsner Kommunikation)
089 321 96 578 (Kirch Media)
089 9958 6379 (Premiere)
01805 11 41 12 (Sat.1)
(Online Faxen: http://www.faxen-online.de/Fax_versenden/fax_versenden.shtml)
MAILEN AN (e-mail):
info@em-ag.de
oliver.wiegand@em-ag.de
celia.purrnhagen@em-ag.de
info@elsner-kommunikation.de
info@premiere.de
zuschauerservice@sat1.de
Englischer Text (English text)
BRIEF AN (letters to):
The SciFi Channel
1230 Avenue of the Americas, F115
New York, NY 10020-1513
USA
FAXEN AN (fax to):
001 212 413 6531 (SciF)
001 212 413 6522 (SciFi)
001 212 413 6524 (USA Networks)
001 212 314 7309 (Vivendi USA)
001 818 866 5959 (Vivendi Universal)
011 331 7171 1179 (Vivendi Frankreich)
(Online Faxen: http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html)
MAILEN AN (mail to):
TVonTV@www.scifi.com
program@www.scifi.com
feedback@www.scifi.com
scifiweekly@scifi.com
series@usanetwork.com
An die ganzen englischen Adressen ruhig mehrmals schreiben/faxen/mailen. Die
kriegen bestimmt soviel Post, dass es nicht auffällt wenn etwas doppelt ist.
Und dann macht es natürlich die Masse.
(Feel free to send multiple mails/letters/faxes to the Adresses. They probably get enough mail so that they won't notice. Quantity counts.)
Außerdem:
- Nicht wild beschimpfen
- Briefe/Faxe mit Hand schreiben
- Andere Leute in Foren / anderen Fan-Communities mobilisieren
- An Presse schreiben
(Furthermore:
-Do not swear/insult etc.
-write by hand
-mobilize other fan communities
-inform the press)
Hier kannst Du auch nachschauen (see also):
http://farscape.wdsection.com/
Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/SAVE_FARSCAPE/
no subject
Do I have to kneel down and beg? ;-)
Uhm …
No :-)
I sent mails, signed the petitions, and even wrote a few letters. Though, knowing our post, they'll never arrive in time ...