TV Guide "Save Farscape" cover, let's campaign for this!

I got this idea from someone in the chat room. After hearing news of TV Guide interviewing Barbarella, and probably others, this coming Tuesday for a "Save Farscape" story (http://www.wdsection.com/community/s...&threadid=2814), wouldn't it be great if we could get TV Guide to have "Save Farscape" as the title of the issue, with a picture of the cast?

I say we all get to work writing letters, faxing, phoning, and e-mailing TV Guide to request a "Save Farscape" cover. This would mean the "Save Farscape" message would be right in front of people's faces in thousands of grocery stores across the US as they wait to pay for their groceries. This could make a HUGE difference in the effort to save Farscape. Let's get to work.

I found this at http://www.tvguide.com/magazine/services/faq.asp:

If you have a comment about covers or magazine content, please write to the following address:

TV Guide Editorial Department
4 Radnor Corporate Center
Radnor, PA 19088

I say we focus our efforts there. You can also contact them by phone:
Tel: 610-293-8500
Toll free: 1-800-866-1400
Fax: 610-687-6965

Or through their web site:
http://www.tvguide.com/about/contact.asp

The Editor-in-Chief of TV Guide is John McPartlin. His e-mail address is john.mcpartlin@tvguide.com. I'm sure he doesn't get many outside e-mails (I guessed his e-mail address, and it works), so e-mailing him could be a great way to get noticed!

I encourage you all to contact TV Guide using all of the above methods and request a "Save Farscape" cover. TV Guide has done Farscape covers in the past so this seems like a possibility.

Please post this message anywhere else you like to get the message out to fellow Scapers!

This is an excellent idea. If we can get this on the cover of TV Guide, we'll reach hundreds of thousands of people we can't reach now!

I'm on it after I get off work

I like the idea, although in the back of my mind I fear the TV Guide curse. They blessed SportsNight and Once and Again as two of the best shows ever on television. Of course, they were absolutely correct in that assessment, and not long after that, the shows were prematurely cancelled. I'm clinging to the "Farscape wasn't on ABC" theory to comfort me.

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I'll take my chances in order to reach the millions of people that TV Guide magazine reaches each week.

Think of it:

Millions of subscribers.
Millions more looking at the covers in the checkout isle.

Millions of more soldiers for the fight ahead

Yes, I think a TV Guide cover has the potential to get the word out to several million people in just a few days. It could be a HUGE weapon in the campaign to save the show.

Remember, there are still many Farscape fans out there that don't know the show has been cancelled.

I'll get right on my letter. We need as much media exposure as we can get.

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Excelent idea!!

Email sent

I suggested to them that they might want to consider multiple covers, due to the show's popularity. The upshot of this (though I didn't explain this bit of the logic) is that the more copies they sell of the issue that it is in, the better our cause will look. Of course, I'd buy AT LEAST one copy of each cover...

Great suggestion jrloflin!

They've done multiple Farscape covers in the past, right?

They had at least three with the Sexy Women of Sci-Fi article a while back (Virginia, Claudia, Gigi)...

If we get this cover we are in really good shape. Such a good idead. Lets get writing we need the letters mailed by tomorrow AM in the US so they get there quickly enough to make an impact

Here's my letter. Feel free to take ideas from it, just don't cut and paste word for word:

TV Guide Editorial Department
4 Radnor Corporate Center
Radnor, PA 19088

Dear TV Guide:

I am writing this letter to request that you do a “Save Farscape” cover.

I am a long-time subscriber to TV Guide as well as a big fan of the SciFi Channel series Farscape. As I’m sure you know, Farscape was recently cancelled, and since then there has been a huge grassroots effort to save the show. With help from Matt Roush, CNN Headline News has been covering the story. Yesterday, they quoted an e-mail from a Farscape fan that said the following:

“I believe that this campaign will dwarf the famous Star Trek letter-writing campaign of the 1960’s, and will showcase – like nothing before it – the way the Internet has changed how people interact and form communities.”

I think that sums things up fairly well. It is only a week since the news of the cancellation was leaked on the official Farscape chat room, and already the “Save Farscape” movement has organized a huge letter writing campaign (letters, faxes, e-mails, telephone calls, etc.), organized a rally in NYC, placed a “Save Farscape” ad in Variety, and put a thank you ad to the Farscape cast and crew in The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Australia. Dozens, if not hundreds, of “Save Farscape” websites have popped up overnight, and this is only the beginning. This is HUGE, the Internet-era equivalent of the 1960’s Star Trek letter-writing campaign.

I have heard that Ileane Rudolph is currently researching a story on the “Save Farscape” movement. I think it would be great if TV Guide would do a “Save Farscape” cover. Better yet, make it a special collectors edition multiple cover issue, as I’m sure Farscape fans would buy all the different versions to commemorate this historic event.

I’m so happy that Matt Roush, Ileane Rudolph, and TV Guide are covering this unfolding story from the beginning. I think that TV Guide is the perfect place to really break this story on a national level. There are many Farscape fans that still haven’t heard the news. So please, put “Save Farscape” on your cover and show the world that TV Guide is the TV viewer’s friend, as you have always done so well in the past.

Sincerely,
[My Name]
Palo Alto, CA

Great letter, Dliquid. I'm going to send a bunch of snail mails tomorrow morning in addition to the e-mails I sent today

We can do a "Sexy Women of Save Farscape" campaign. I'm so cute, I'd just have to volunteer!

Consider the mail sent.