Sometimes it seems like television executives have no clue what TV shows viewers really want to watch. Every year popular television programs get cancelled for supposedly poor ratings, yet so many people seem to be fans. Whenever your favorite television show gets canceled, it's disappointing and sometimes hard to find a good replacement for it week after week. It's like losing a good friend sometimes. But there are some things you can do to try and help save a TV show from cancelation.
The first thing you need to do is get organized and try and spread the word to other fans about the TV show's possible future cancelation. Find a way to join with other fans of the show and group together to show just how big the fan base is. Create a public website devoted to the TV show and its fans. Provide fans with message boards and chat rooms to communicate with each other and show support for the television show. Use websites like MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to get the word out and link up with other fans. Post daily updates about the show, its stars, and producers on all of these websites for as much exposure as possible. List contact information for the show's executives and urge fans to write to them in support of the show. But keep everything you post and write upbeat and positive. Even if you are angry, try and stay positive and polite with your comments and opinions.
Once you have a sizable group of fans gathered together online, find ways to work as a team. Consider starting an online petition and have all of your fan connections sign it and leave positive comments about the show. Then spread the petition around the web. Place links on other websites and message boards so that other fans can participate in the 'save the TV show' campaign. You can easily create online petitions on websites like www.petitiononline.com or www.petitionspot.com.
Another idea to help your cause is to contact your local media. If your favorite television show is on a local network television station that has a nightly news program, contact them about your quest to save the television show. Most likely they will find your plight news worthy and topical and might give your cause some added exposure. Someone in the news department might even do some constructive investigating with the story and bring it to the attention of network executives. You could also try contacting your local newspaper and get a story written there. Local radio could help to. Call in to a local radio talk program or morning show and see if they will discuss the topic with you on air.
Stay determined and keep spreading the word about how much you love your favorite television show. Do some research and find out the phone numbers or emails for executives at the network. Contact them and explain maturely and nicely how much the television show means to you. Explain that you are also in contact with many other fans as well. And encourage those fans to contact the executives as well. If enough people bring attention to these executives, they'll have to at least consider rethinking their decision to cancel the show.
However keep in mind that it is very rare that a show which has been canceled is ever brought back to life again. Usually when television executives make up their minds, there's little that will change it. But don't let this discourage you. A few years ago the Fox Network canceled the television show Family Guy. Many fans were extremely disappointed and did many of the above things to try and save the show. At first it didn't work. But over the next couple of years the network began to take notice. As fans purchased the show on DVD and watched it regularly in reruns on other networks, the Fox Network eventually reconsidered its canceling of the show and brought it back. Today Family Guy is still on weekly and has become one of Fox's most successful shows. So you never know what can happen if you stay faithful to your favorite television show and bond together with your fellow fans.