Possible interest in ANGEL from Tribune Entertainment?

POSTED BY: Micronaut
UPDATED: Sunday, March 14, 2004 21:30
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MICRONAUT

Friday, March 5, 2004 3:25 AM

Just caught this bit about Tribune being interested in Angel... here's hoping they can change the WB's collective mind...

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While UPN may be out of the picture, Tribune Broadcasting Company (to whom we've been sending cards for the past few days) have actually solicited fans to protest via postcards, as they feel ANGEL is a valuable show with a strong fan base.

Original article here:
http://www.theslayer.net/tsn/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&fil
e=article&sid=7315&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

"Just remember... all success is illusion: what has really been accomplished is the displacement of an area of specific failure to somewhere else... or is it the other way around?"

ANGELDOVE

Saturday, March 6, 2004 5:25 AM

Any reputable help outside the fan base makes a strong case for saving Angel. Thank you for posting this info.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

PHOENIXSHIP

Saturday, March 6, 2004 5:42 PM

Here are the addresses to target (politely, but firmly) NOW:

Time Warner, Inc
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Chairman, Entertainment and Networks
Time Warner, Inc.
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019
USA

Tribune Broadcasting Company
Patrick J. Mullen, President
Tribune Broadcasting Company
Ste. 1800, 435 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60611
USA

"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"

HAKEN

Saturday, March 6, 2004 6:23 PM

While I can understand the need to find a home for Angel, I really don't think Tribune Entertainment is the best network for the series. IMHO, Tribune Entertainment has a very bad track record of sustaining quality television series with any sort of intelligence.

They ruined fine series like Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. Dumbing down both series (less dialog, more action with cartoon plots) in the belief that it'll attract a more global audience. They wouldn't know what to do with something like "Angel" because it's too intelligent for them.

While I would like "Angel" to continue, I would hate for it to be ruined and then die a slow and painful death.

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:30 PM

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Originally posted by Haken:
While I would like "Angel" to continue, I would hate for it to be ruined and then die a slow and painful death.

I heartily agree - Tribune somehow manage to make shows cheaply, and sell them in advance to enough countries to guarantee 3/5 or even 7 years, and despite that, have yet to produce one genuinely, consistently good and/or original product.

"I threw up on your bed"