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April 05 2004

Touched by Angel fans. TV Guide's Matt Roush profiles the outcry over Angel's cancellation. "These creative protests come at a time when creativity is an endangered TV commodity, with contrived reality trumping the most inspired fantasies".

Simon | AtS | 12:20 CET | 8 comments total | tags:

This was a wonderfully insightful article from a main-stream news source!!!! The word is spreading!

Simpleba | April 05, 12:55 CET

Matt Roush has always been a huge Whedonverse fan/supporter. I agree completely with him that "creativity is an endangered TV commodity." Yes. Yes!

Mainstream news sources are picking up the amazing Angel fans' campaigns all over the place: CNN, TVGuide, and today, NPR. Right frickin' on.

Even if the campaigns have a snowball's chance in hell of recusitating Angel, they are marvelous, indeed. I greatly appreciate the organizers' efforts.

phlebotinin | April 05, 18:08 CET

Well the fan campaign seemed to have worked for Farscape, Sci Fi have just confirmed it will return as a 4 hr mini series.

Simon | April 05, 18:17 CET

That's great news, Simon, even though I'm not a Farscape fan. I bet Farscapers are rejoicing. Excellent. I would love it if the same happened for Angel. But even if it doesn't, at least we've kicked up a nice, creative, praised, much-reported fuss.

phlebotinin | April 05, 18:36 CET

Great article, and it is indeed encouraging to see this in major media. Speaking of which, the Washington Post has a weekly feature called "What You Don't Know about Television" by TV reporter Lisa De Moraes (I'm not linking it because it has no Buffy/Angel specific reference)--today's was about why some shows get cancelled (bad demographics, star decides to retire, etc). I wrote her asking if she could explain why a show with a devoted (and growing) fan base, increased viewer numbers, and critical acclaim would get cancelled in favor of untried and untested new stuff. Maybe she will write about Angel, too.

Chris in Virginia | April 05, 18:41 CET

Thanks for the "Farscape" link Simon, though it's been all but confirmed for ages this is great news, a bit pissed to learn that Sci-Fi are getting it though.

Ghost Spike | April 05, 20:03 CET

I imagine the BBC will be able to pick it up after it's shown in the States.

Simon | April 05, 20:23 CET

Matt Roush is awesome. "Tawdry new time waster" is classic - that's how you could describe practically every new show on TV nowadays.

irish | April 06, 04:52 CET

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