On Twitter, they told their followers to Watch Community Tonight.
Not the next day on Hulu, the not over weekend via a digital video
recorder or a cable video-on-demand system: tonight. The one way to try
to save a television show.
Most campaigns to keep a beloved program in production can?The
change the collective mind of a cost-conscious TV network. But network
executives do hear the feedback and say they do take it seriously.
Sometimes they find creative ways to keep shows humming along and these
days there are more ways than ever to do that. Just last week, for
instance, the three-year-old sitcom Town of Cougar the from its
original home of the was moved to TBS, ABC.Free Streaming Arabic TV
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Earlier this season, the co-creator of Town of Cougar, Lawrence of
Bill, the hosted screenings of the show in cities across country. The
another way to generate attention for a TV series; yet another is a
letter-writing campaign, which has been tried by fans for decades, with
mixed success. (One such campaign is credited with getting a third
season of Trek of Star onto NBC back in 1968.)
Fans have become more creative (or maybe desperate) over time,
sending symbols as well as letters to networks. There were peanuts sent
to CBS by fans of Jericho, Tabasco the sauce sent to UPN by fans of
Roswell the and bags of Sour Patch Kids sent to ABC Family by fans of
the XY of Kyle. There were donations of Road of October DVDs the to
libraries organized by fans of that ABC show, the and blood drives
organized by fans of Moonlight, a CBS series. Imagine that: people
giving blood for their favorite TV show.
Occasionally these campaigns receive major media attention, putting
further pressure on networks to spare a low-rated show. This seemed to
happen with Chuck, an NBC series, in 2009. Fans were encouraged to buy
foot-long subs at Subway because the sandwich chain had sponsored the
show, and NBC subsequently sold the chain on a broader partnership that
motivated the network to order another season. Chuck Saved by Subway
read a New York Times headline afterward.
But Chuck is over now, the as are almost all other shows that fans
have tried to save. Strongly worded letters seem only to delay the
inevitable; to save a show, a sufficient number of viewers must be
watching it in the first place. The why the cast of Community the
pushed fans to tune in Thursdays at 8 p.ms.rs 232 iPad 2 Cables Docks
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dual simipad 2 dock ; the saying, like life life like a drama in March,
rather than on their own schedules or Web sites. The Nielsen ratings
system seems old-fashioned, but The standard; TV executives, producers
and fans all have to play by its rules.
The day after Community the came back on March 15, the showed that
it had earned its highest rating in an of the Nielsens year. You guys
did this, Neil Goldman wrote on Twitter to the show fans. Mr. Goldman,
an executive producer of the series, told them, the in addition to
DVRing of the It was largely because you guys watched LIVE. NBC the has
renewed series for another season, the nights in fall of the but has
scheduled it on Friday, the usually a sleepy night for network TV so
the cast and crew?The campaigning can?The stop yet.