Awesome new petition to revive Firefly. One that actually has the data to make a strong case for it's revival.

POSTED BY: Zeylon
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 2, 2005 14:40
VIEWED: 12651
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ZEYLON

Saturday, October 29, 2005 2:54 AM

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/revivefirefly

If you support this petition, please take the time to promote it by linking to it on your site, asking your friends to sign it, or by posting about it on any related sites or forums.

If you have any ideas for any revision or additions that I should make to this petition or can offer any aid in contacting HBO or Showtime or any of the other premium networks, please feel free to contact me through the interface provided.

I'm convinced that with the reruns airing on scifi, all the publicity serenity got the franchise via magazine covers and positive reviews, and the fact that it's dvd will probably be very popular on blockbuster and netflix, that the time is ripe for the series to make a comeback.

Also if you do decide to publicize it by posting a link on another thread, could you also ask the site readers to tell their friends and to publicize the petition in any firefly related boards etc that they participate in. Thank you.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/revivefirefly

BARCLAY

Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:09 AM

Or not. Even if all your generalizations are correct about the number of people willing to subscribe to a channel to see Firefly, and you get an additional $5mil a month, the show costs $8 mil a month to make (at $2 mil an episode). Meaning, by your own math, the channel is down $3 mil a month and the only way to recoup that is to sell DVDs. I don't think Even new episodes of Firefly can sell $3 mil a month.

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ZEYLON

Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:13 AM

There are 22 episodes in a full season and 54 weeks in an year. Do the math, you don't think HBO actually makes 54 new episodes of The Sopranos each year do you. The new subscribtions from the fans in the US alone would more than fund the show. Not to mention new viewers the show will pick up, international subscriptions, dvd sales, awards, etc.

SAFFY

Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:27 AM

I signed your petition and have asked several of my Browncoat friends to do the same. Now do me a favor, please, and go back and fix your spelling on the thing so it looks like you mean business.

STAKETHELURK

Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:31 AM

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There are 22 episodes in a full season and 54 weeks in an year.

Point of interest, there are only *52* weeks in a year. Also, if "Firefly" were revived on a cable network, there wouldn't *be* 22 episodes a season. That's not how cable works. You'd have more along the lines of 13 episodes a season. Shorter seasons are kinda their *thing.*

Unfortunately, another one of the networks' things is ignoring online polls. Here's a quote from the article "Save Firefly: A True Story" (see: http://emahollywood.com/firefly.html), written by someone who knows how to work the Hollywood system and was one of the key organizers of the original campaign to save "Firefly."

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No one reads internet petitions. You can sign with as many email addresses as you have and most people have several; the one you use for work, the one you use for friends, the one where all your spam goes, the one you use for porn. Four-hundred signatures on an internet petition equals two-hundred and thirty-seven people with too much time on their hands.

So, even if you've got all the numbers on your side, the execs will not look at it. You gotta find some other way to get that information to them (without scaring them away, please).

ZEYLON

Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:54 AM

Actually, the link that I forward to the execs will show when two signatures were made from the same ip address. And I will delete any such duplicate signatures ahead of time.

As for spelling/grammer mistakes, I really didnt find any when I reviewed the petition except in the updates. If you found any, tell me.

Unfortunately, there's no way for me to edit the petition or it's updates now that it has signatures, but I'll consider making a new one if enough such mistakes are pointed out.

INSANITYLATER

Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:07 AM

I don't think Firefly is right for a network like Showtime or HBO. It's much more suited for Sci Fi or maybe even Spike. Showtime totally dropped the ball on Dead Like Me. That show was almost perfect (for its genre, not comparing it to Firefly.. put the pitchforks and torches down).

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"Serenity NOW!!! ... Insanity later."

ZEYLON

Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:20 AM

Why exactly isn't Firefly right for HBO.

HBO loves variety. Each of their shows is very distinct and unlike anything else on TV. Firefly fits this description perfectly.

Besides, SciFi doesn't have the funding. They can't afford to spend 2 million per episode because they just can't make that much in ads. If Fox couldn't make back what it was spending on Firefly, what makes you think SciFi could?

MORALDILEMA

Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:03 AM

I just signed and I was 56!!! How is it that I'm #56. I just got into Firefly after seeing the movie and I'm trying to do everything I can to spread my love of the show. How am I #56.

Get going people!

CALHOUN

Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:57 AM

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Zeylon wrote:
Friday, October 28, 2005 17:54

As for spelling/grammer mistakes, I really didnt find any when I reviewed the petition except in the updates. If you found any, tell me.

GUARENTEES

percantage

Just at a quick scan.

I too have signed your petition for all the good it will do.. I am becoming pessimistic, its been a long hard road.

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