Thursday 18 December 2008

First anniversary of the 4400 cancellation : Game Over !

It's a sad day for all 4400 fans...
Just one year since Scott Peters announced the cancellation of our favorite show, we still have no answers about what really happened...

What fans have done since December 18th 2007 ?

- The Sunflower seeds "revolution" : From all over the world , fans bought and sent sunflower seeds to Bonnie Hammer . We also sent letters asking for a last and real final season... It was probably the main operation. We got a great exposure in medias, but USA Network just ignored us...

- As a result of that, we tried to contact Jeff Zucker, NBC exective (NBC owns USA Network) and sent letters again...

- We also opened a website (no more online) and opened a worldwide petition that finished with 26 301 signatures (added to the Usa Network forum yesterday, for archiving purposes)...

- Finally, we produced a DVD, and tried to spread it to important people in USA medias industry (The Markeds) as a kind of press kit, trying to explain why the show should get a real end...

After one year of intense cooperation with a lot of fans all over the world, I must admit that I am quite sad...

We used all our abilities : unfortunately, this was not enough in a world ruled by money... This is my conclusion about USA Networks politics... I met wonderful people and spent a lot of time trying to save our show !

I would like to specially thank Alexandra, Bora, Dee, Megan, Melinda, Mike, Ronnie, Baris, Victoria and all the ones who shared with me this great journey ! I will stay tuned of any new evolution and will publish any news that could give us hope... Take care of the ones you love, this is the main message of The 4400 !

I am so sorry, we failed saving The 4400 ! We have now to wait until Bonnie Hammer will leave USA Network ! Buy the books, this is probably the only thing we can get now....


Pablo/Save The 4400


PS : By the way, here is a smart idea someone posted in the Save The 4400 youtube channel : "PLEASE!!! everyone that visits this channel, think, our lives will be the same without the 4400? NO, no it wouldn't be, so I got a proposal to meet where the USA network headquarters are, in july 11th, 2009, 5 years since the series was premiered."

Tuesday 9 December 2008

Bonnie Hammer : Angel or Devil...

One year after Scott Peters announced the cancellation of The 4400, I still wondering why our favorite show was canceled... I have been looking on the web and did not find any real explanation from USA Network. The answer is obvious : there is NO reason !

I found some few things about USA Network president : Bonnie Hammer ! Here are a few quotes from other victims who get their show canceled :

From a Farscape fan : "(...) You cancelled “Farscape” and are airing “Tremors: The Series.” I’m not a religious man but at times like this, I hope there is a Hell. "

From Capperwiki : "Ms. Hammer joined the Sci Fi Channel and in 1998 replaced Barry Schulman (a big Mystery Science Theater 3000-booster, who renewed the show for its 10th -- and final -- season before leaving). She is the one whom Cappers blame the most for the cancellation of MST3K (...)."

From Deep Ape blog : "Despite dragging the network (he is talking about Sci Fi) down into a disgusting, rippling orgy of pro wrestling, paranormal reality shows, and atrocious b-movies starring actors who once appeared on Stargate, she has helped the network rise to a “No. 6 channel” — apparently, at the cost of actual, good science fiction."

From Wikipedia (has been removed on 23rd January 2008) : "Hammer is a published author and an accomplished photographer. Many fans of the sci-fi network wish she would quit that job and concentrate on her accomplished photography."

From a Stargate Atlantis fan : "Hey ! with NBC's sense, and Bonnie Hammer's great judgment, maybe they will put SmackDown fake wrestling on OXYGEN woman's channel! They just bought OXYGEN for a billion dollars. And then fired a quarter of the people out of their jobs on that channel."

Well, you can find many more testimonies like these ones, just asking to Google... It really seems that Bonnie Hammer is well known to remove shows and boost ratings with "easy" and "short" crappy stuff for mass people ! Dear fans and friends, we can just hope... and keep hoping for better days...