After reading your June 20 ...
Question: After reading your June 20 letter about the cancellation/possible pick-up of
Angel — sorry, I mean
Moonlight — and then this week's Save
Jericho Again commercial on Discovery, I have to ask: Don't you think enough is enough? And has
Jericho's second season given other fans false hope? I mean, how often do other networks really pick up cancelled shows? (I can think of
JAG, Paradise Hotel and now
Scrubs.) Don't get me wrong, I really liked
Jericho. I signed the original petition to bring the show back and then did my duty and watched every Season 2 episode. But I
loved The 4400, which itself was recently snuffed out, but I refrained from sending sunflowers seeds. But shows come and go, and then (fortunately) live on on DVD. We can mourn, but should then just sit ourselves down and turn the telly back on for the next round of shows (
Fringe,
Dollhouse and Season 2 of
The Sarah Connor Chronicles, anyone?), don't you think?
Answer: It really isn't up to me to tell fans to give up the ghost, although I'm also not in the business of feeding false hope or spreading insubstantial rumors. As best I can, I tend to steer clear of these campaigns, even when I strongly empathize (as in the case of any efforts to keep
Friday Night Lights going). The fact is that situations like the temporary resurrection of
Jericho are awfully rare. Cross-network rescues are equally rare, and almost never happen for purely altruistic reasons. So realistically, to address your way of looking at things, the way it tends to work is that most of us bitch and moan when shows are snuffed out too soon and we eventually move on, settling in for the next round of intriguing and challenging shows, hoping against hope they'll flourish instead of flounder. I just hope we're not having this same conversation a year from now about shows like
Fringe and
Dollhouse.
