Alright...enough screwin' around. Let's get this series back on the air.

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SERENITYFOREVER

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:05 AM

At this point, letter-writing campaigns aren't going to do any good. If you're going to focus your energy on resurrecting the series, you have to deal in the only currency that studio executives understand: uhm... currency. When the fan support and the growing fan base is seen to translate into $, there is no way anyone will be able to keep it OFF the air.

Buy the DVD for a friend. Buy it for family. Talk it up. It's the only language they'll understand.

_____________________________
Newbie Fan (Since Jan, 2006)
DVD Series given as gifts: 4
DVD Movies given as gifts: 4
Browncoat converts to date: 1
You can't stop the signal.

FORGOTN

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:02 AM

We as the fans can't just feed money directly into the networks pockets. It just doesn't work that way. Like it or not we have very little control over things. Joss is still captin of this boat. All we can do is the fan thing and do it very very well. Letter writing campaigns are our best tool in resurecting the Verse. This is taken directly off of SciFi's website

SCI FI CHANNEL: If you have suggestions or comments for our Programming Department about the SCI FI Channel or any of its shows, please contact: feedback@scifi.com

So apparently they do listen to fan letters. (Okay that is the same address that they have you send ANY kind of feedback but at least it is an address) Im not saying that this is our only hope but it is something to work on. We can start with individual e-mails and add a form letter spam storm when one is posted (Im sure somebody else can do that better then me. CNAs don 't do paper work) Ill post a snail mail address soon as I find one.

Side note: everybody, EVERYBODY, needs to buy the BDS, BDM, BDM novelization, the soundtrack(s), all of the comics, and any other OFFICIAL merch you can find. lets reach us that afore mentioned magic marketing number sooner rather than later.

FORGOTN

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:14 AM

Okay people, here is some SciFi Info.

Address:
Sci-Fi Channel USA
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
10020

Email:
feedback@scifi.com
program@scifi.com

Home Page
http://www.scifi.com

Also, another point of intrest, SciFi.com has there own BBoard. It might be a good idea to get everybody here to register there and start chatting up about our beloved Verse. If there own site is clogged with Firefly fans then they have to know that we exist. And that we like them. Just a thought.

SUBTORPMAN

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:01 AM

Great thread, I sent an email to SCI FI yesterday and filled out the survey three days ago. Tonight I will have my wife do the same under her email address. This weekend my friends are visiting and I will have them do the same. THE BATTLE IS ON!

DHEROOFCANTON

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:11 AM

I just sent a nice long email to the sci-fi boys, i made sure to mention where i was from, just give them an idea that its not just in the states the show is popular, Im from Dublin, Ireland and HMV on Grafton Street which is a big shopping street in Ireland, has a few shelves full of the series and has had it readily in stock over the christmas period, its right at them front of the store with all the really popular dvds and good deals, so its got to be selling well!!Just wait until they release the movie on dvd...roll on 27th Feb!!!

SHINEY777

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:10 PM

Okay,
Here is my version of a form letter. I'm not a writer, so don't laugh. Well, do what you will, it's not like I can hear you!
Doll it up all you want.

Browncoats Unite!

Dear Sci-Fi,

The loyal fans of the hit TV Series Firefly, and movie Serenity are in need of your help. As you know, the rights to our show are still owned by Fox. This is no type of home for a show with so many Sci-Fi fans.

Yours is the only venue today for quality Science Fiction, and Firefly is the epitome of a quality Sci-Fi show, dare I say, that it is exactly what Sci-Fi should be. Browncoats across the globe are uniting to re-light Firefly and find it a new, safe haven. The Sci-Fi network is the obvious choice.

We are hoping that you will see the potential, (and profit), in taking up Firefly for many more seasons. This show was never even given a chance to get an audience, and yet it now has a huge fan base; a fan base that now looks to you, to do the right thing. We implore you, give us back our sky, and make Firefly a part of your family, just as we have.

Help us Sci-Fi Network, you’re only hope!

Sincerely,

The Loyal Fans of Firefly
(Individuals would sign here, and place any personal comments in this spot).

FLETCH2

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:46 PM

Don't know that they would be that responsive. Scifi has a history of cancelling shows almost as long as Fox's, the Farscape people had 5 seasons on SciFi, good ratings and coproduction deals lined up in Europe and Australia to share costs and SciFi still axed them.

Hate to say it but I think the series boat sailed a long time ago. Had SciFi been interested they would have picked the show up when Joss offered it to them. Back then production offices were open, writers and actors were still under contract and the sets still existed at Fox Television. THAT was the time when they could have got the show cheap. Now they will need to buy rights from Fox probably pay Universal Pictures for their sets (or make Serenity Mk3) and negociate new deals with the BDM's and Joss, Tim and co.

The only reason SciFi showed Firefly was to promote Serenity now that's done don't expect them to go make a series. I think we need to talk to Universal about direct to DVD movies. That would work and SciFi would screen those if someone else in the organisation made them.

CERIL

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:34 PM

Im new to the 'verse. just picked up the firelfy and serenity dvds this weekend.. but what are BDS, BDM, BDM novelization?? im lookin into getting the comics, if i can find them and would gladly buy any merchadise to help the cause. I owuld love for this show to return in one form or another.. Its one of the most original shows ive seen in a LONG time.. Thanks

FORGOTN

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:23 PM

BDS = Big Damn Series
BDM = Big Damn Movie
BDH = Big Damn Heroes

Welcome to the Verse!

Back on topic. Im not saying that a series is the most likely answer to our plight, Im not even convinced myself that it is a viable option, but the most important thing is that we keep fighting so that the rest of the world knows were here and that we mean busisness. We have to make a stand somewere and SciFi is as good a place as any. This might turn out to be a repeat of the Battle for Serenity Valley but Big Deal. We need to do something, anything, to keep Joss's dream alive. And the only way that anybody is going to know that we mean business, that we our an organized group of fans, who aren't just going to fall victim to the whims of the gorram blue handed Fox Execs, is to Fight Back. We have done the impossible folks and that makes us mighty, to quote a very wise man. We are the first group of fans to EVER get a feature length film made out of a TV show that was cancelled after half a season. If we can do that then we can do ANYTHING, just as long as we don't give up. The Browncoats lost the unification war due to superior numbers, well, that aint exactly a problem anymore folks.

Keep Flyin'

MEIMEIMEG

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SerenityForever:
At this point, letter-writing campaigns aren't going to do any good. If you're going to focus your energy on resurrecting the series, you have to deal in the only currency that studio executives understand: uhm... currency. When the fan support and the growing fan base is seen to translate into $, there is no way anyone will be able to keep it OFF the air.

Buy the DVD for a friend. Buy it for family. Talk it up. It's the only language they'll understand.

B]

I agree with this. Letter-writing is all well and good (and we as Browncoats do need to be exploring EVERY option available to us), but the real key always was and always will be the sales of the DVDs and merchandise. We need to spread the word to any who will listen. (And try not to sound so much like the crazed fans we are ) We need to buy as many copies of the BDM as we can afford, for gifts or donation copies to libraries, whatever. Next time you go to a video store, recommend it to a complete stranger who looks unsure about what to get. (I've done this - it actually works! I was giddy after I saw the guy renting it). Creating a bigger fan base is how this is going to take off. I can almost see the sequel now.... Shiny.

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