Local literary celeb Meg Cabot had this little important tidbit of information in her journal entry today:
In non-cat related news, there is a ROY (rumor on the yard—you would know this if you’d watched Kathy Griffin the other night) that Sci-Fi channel is not renewing The Dresden Files for another season. Say it isn’t so! This is ONLY show I watch on this channel. Go here if you’re interested in seeing what you can do to help save the show (if it’s not already too late)!
Obediently—I must, for she is a banned author who has dined with Judy Blume—I went here. I did numbers 3 and 6 on the list, getting an email error that has me confused as to whether anything actually happened. I like the show (it’s on our TV list), but probably not enough to debug tech problems from afar.
Shows get bounced around and off of the networks all the time, even really good ones. You would think that with all these thousands of Web 2.0 start-ups getting announced on blogs every day that one of them might cater to the scorned devotees of axed shows. There should be a very easy and reliable way to generate the proper buzz, file petitions, share offline contact information, and collectively bid farewell to a dying show when all of that fails to sway the execs.
Seriously, this seems like a winning idea. Maybe some of these other TV-centric communities already have a place to deal with the catharsis part, but can’t there a MoveOn toolbox for Dresden, too?