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1->''"What if we cancel ''Series/{{Moonlight|2007}}'', and they send blood?"''
2-->-- '''Keckler''', ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity''
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4When a show is perceived by fans/viewers as being in danger of being ScrewedByTheNetwork, and ending up relegated to the sad brotherhood of shows that couldn't last, fandom mobilizes.
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6They pool their resources and organize a campaign to write letters, convincing the executives at the network that the show is worth saving, and that they should [[UnCanceled Uncancel]] the show.
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8In the earlier years of television, viewers simply sent in letters to the network to extoll the virtues of their favorite program. However with the arrival of the 21st century and the advent of the internet, fandom has become a lot more organized, active, and creative.
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10Letters are no longer all that gets sent in, partly because although the internet makes communication easy (leading to the rise of generating social media buzz as a major method of campaigning), the general consensus is that the networks will take tangible mail more seriously. Taking that simple fact to an extreme, fans will, en masse, send in items that are significant to the characters and/or situations found in the show they're trying to save. After about a decade, networks and the like now treat sending food or snack items en masse as an automatic Circular File.[[note]]In other words, the mailroom will just be told to just throw it all out. Though in some cases, they give all the food to the show's creators and producers and tell ''them'' to take care of it.[[/note]] As such, despite such tactics working during the 1990s and 2000s, a show is not likely to be saved by fan effort directed this way anymore.
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12Depending on how the powers that be respond, programming that see renewal or resurrection campaigns such as this can fall into three categories.
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14* '''Success Stories''': It worked and the executives give the show another season. Sometimes this new season does well enough that the show actually continues for even longer than anyone expected.
15* '''Nice Tries''': These didn't quite manage another full season, but the fans still get something ''close'' to what they wanted; usually a GrandFinale (be it a handful of more episodes or a film) that grants some closure.
16* '''Saving Throw Fail''': Maybe the fandom isn't actually as large as everyone thought[[labelnote:*]](if it was, maybe there wouldn't need to be a "save the show" campaign to begin with)[[/labelnote]], or ExecutiveMeddling has overridden the devotion of the fans. Either way, their decision didn't change.
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18Related categories are include:
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20* '''Fate Undetermined''': Ongoing fandom efforts, meaning success or failure can't be yet determined. Whether a work can be considered this or a "fail" depends on how intense and lengthy the fan campaign is, and if the studio or network has made an official statement in response.
21* '''Wrath of the Viewers''' is the inverse of this trope. It can occur if a show is offensively bad enough; viewers will write in requesting the program be yanked off the air altogether, rather than asking the network to keep it on.
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23Most frequently a trope for television, as fan campaigns to save what they like doesn't have as active an outlet in other media. The long-form nature of television and the cost involved in making such programming means that work made for the format could be subject to being CutShort before a SeriesGoal is reached or DrivingQuestion answered, making fans eager to see a proper conclusion. For other media, fan campaigns like this generally don't involve fans wanting more installments; they usually concern wanting an alternate version of a preexisting work made available, such as the DirectorsCut of a film, or for a NoExportForYou piece of media to be made legally available in their region. The actual impact that fan movements have is often unknown unless someone close to the production speaks up about it. It's very much possible that some cases of this are an example of a network already planning on renewing the show anyway, but keeping quiet about it so that the fanbase will give it free marketing and publicity.
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25Following the crowd-funding boom of 2012 (see Website/{{Kickstarter}}), another form of this emerged in its wake: fans sending ''their money'' to the original creators of the series they want to save. Some spectacular successes have been achieved, as even if rights issues prevent the series proper from making a comeback, the creator can always use the money to fund a SpiritualSuccessor.
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35* ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' and ''Anime/MacrossII'' got across the Pacific in large part because of this. The ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' series in general is an almost memetic example of ScrewedByTheLawyers, with no less than four companies all holding some part of the series' distribution rights and most of those companies ''hating'' each other. Despite this, pressure from both fans (who wanted a good series to make it across the Atlantic) and the rest of the industry (who wanted an awesome product out there to strengthen the anime market) managed to get the Japanese side of the pileup to agree to play nice and share the revenue, at the same time that Harmony Gold (the U.S. end of the crossfire) was in the middle of a major reorganization and not minding the store.
36* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' is a very unusual, and very famous, example. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam The original series]] suffered from low ratings and had its episode count cut from 49 to 39 (though the staff begged for an extension and ended up with the odd number of 43 episodes). After this, creator[=/=]director Creator/YoshiyukiTomino had the idea to recut the series into a trio of {{Compilation Movie}}s; thanks to positive press from anime magazines and word of mouth, the trilogy was a colossal success, and the rest is history.
37* After Creator/AdultSwim's 2012 AprilFoolsDay prank of unexpectedly reviving Creator/{{Toonami}} for a night garnered explosive results, they let fans know that they were seriously considering reviving the block and encouraging them to make their voices heard by contacting Creator/CartoonNetwork and using the "#[=BringBackToonami=]" hashtag on Website/{{Twitter}}. One month later, licensing deals were struck, and Toonami came back and has remained a constant of the Adult Swim schedule since.
38* Dic's English dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' got this after initially being cancelled in 1996 due to poor ratings in syndication (which largely stemmed from the morning and afternoon timeslots it had been given, which meant the show's target demographic was not watching it). Fans of the show circulated a petition which got over 12,000 signatures and USA Network decided to air reruns of the show, and ratings were good enough that Dic dubbed the remaining 17 episodes of season two. Then after USA cancelled the show following the conclusion of season two, Cartoon Network started airing it in its Toonami block and the ratings skyrocketed, causing CN to also order English dubs of S and Super S, and hiring Cloverway to do them.
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42* When [[Creator/{{Disney}} Buena Vista]] put out their release plans for the home video and DVD release of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' fans were upset that the DVD would not include a subtitled Japanese track. A letter writing campaign and petition mobilized by the Nausicaa.net mailing list successfully convinced them otherwise; apparently they had no idea there was a demand for it.
43* In 1998, for its theatrical re-release in Germany, the original German-language dub of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'', circa 1990, was replaced with a brand-new dub, with different actors voicing the characters (save for Beate Hasneau, who reprised her role as Ursula). Fans disliked the dub, as they felt it wasn't up to the standards of the dub they grew up with. When the film was released on the Platinum Edition line of [=DVDs=] in 2006, it still did not contain the original 1990 dub, and as a result, sales were disastrous. Things got so bad that fans actually petitioned to have the 1990 dub available the next time the film was released. Surprisingly, it worked; the original German dub (in Dolby Surround with 2.0 mixing) was made available when the film was next released on Blu-Ray and DVD in 2013. However, when the film became available on the Creator/DisneyPlus streaming service, the 1998 redub was the one used for unknown reasons (even though the credits are actually those of the original 1990 dub).
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47* When Creator/WarnerBros scrapped the completed live-action[=/=]animated ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' film ''Film/CoyoteVsAcme'' in November 9, 2023 for a $30 million tax break after doing so with ''Batgirl'' and ''Scoob! Holiday Haunt'' in 2022, this proved to be the final straw for filmmakers working for the studio, several fans and other creatives in Hollywood, who have finally had enough and worked to teach the studio a lesson. Steven Ray Byrd, a background actor from the film, made [[https://www.change.org/p/release-the-completed-and-highly-anticipated-movie-coyote-vs-acme a petition]] pleading for the film to be released, while several filmmakers left angry phone calls at Warner Bros., called off meetings scheduled at the studio and even wrote tweets on Website/TwitterX ranging from praising the film to panning Warner Bros.' decision to shelve it. Meanwhile, fans also made fanart campaigning for the film to be released and attacking CEO David Zaslav, and even Texas congressman Joaquin Castro got in on the criticism, calling Warner Bros.' write-off practices "predatory" and "anti-competitive" and calling for the Justice Department to investigate the studio. Eventually, four days later on November 13, 2023, after enduring so much of the negative feedback, Warner Bros. finally accepted defeat and reversed their decision, unshelving the film and allowing the crew to shop it to other distributors. Then, on New Year's Eve, Creator/EricBauza took to social media to reveal the first screenshot of the film and implied its well-deserved release in 2024.
48* The 2001 restoration of ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' brought interest within Creator/WarnerBros about what Creator/RichardDonner had managed to film before he was removed from ''Film/SupermanII'' by the Salkinds (a large part of the theatrical film was made by Richard Lester instead). A fan campaign with letters and WB themselves convinced Donner to work again on the film with what could be salvaged of his filming in WB's vaults. The result, while not 100% the film he originally planned to make due to the impossibility of filming new scenes, is known as ''Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut''.
49* A fan movement arose after the theatrical release of the infamously [[TroubledProduction problem-plagued production]] and ExecutiveMeddling-[=riddled=] version of ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', with the aim of getting Warner Bros. to release a director's cut of the film with all the scrapped footage that Creator/ZackSnyder filmed (plus the soundtrack of Music/JunkieXL, who was replaced by Music/DannyElfman in the theatrical) and devoid of the Creator/JossWhedon additions. It started with letters and phone calls aimed at WB executives. Then some fans started a fundraiser and advertisement campaigns for the "Snyder Cut" with 50% of the proceeds going to the [[UsefulNotes/{{Suicide}} American Foundation for Suicide Prevention]] that Snyder supports since the death of his daughter Autumn, and said campaign was present at the San Diego Comic Con 2019. Further fundraising was used to rent Times Square billboards, alongside letters sent to then-new Warner Bros CEO Ann Sarnoff and an ample and sustained use of the hashtag [=#ReleaseTheSnyderCut=] on social media month after month. Eventually, Warner's new parent company [=AT&T=] noticed the fan interest when said hashtag peaked with hundreds of thousands of tweets in November 2019 upon the second anniversary of the release of the theatrical version, and they made a deal with Snyder. After over two years of teasing with screenshots, stills and behind-the-scene photos on the social media platform Vero as well as [=Q&As=], Snyder eventually was able to release his version of the movie, ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' (on which he was allowed a budget for the finishing touches and a few additional scenes) on Creator/HBOMax in 2021.
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53* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' was [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/History_of_Star_Trek_Fan_Campaigns saved by a letter-writing campaign]], with 116,000 letters sent in four months (while the fact the show was a KillerApp for color [=TVs=] also played a hand[[note]]NBC was owned by RCA, which made color sets.[[/note]], those letters also indicated higher-income fans, as they came from doctors, scientists, teachers, and other professionals[[note]]who could afford said color sets. Those things were ''expensive''.[[/note]]). As many as a million letters may have been received, no one is sure of the exact figure, and they came from ''everyone'' -- all ages and occupations. Cal Tech, MIT and NYU students began organising protest marches outside local NBC stations' offices. As far as sending stuff, fans had been producing zines -- amateur publications featuring art, original stories and speculations about the ''Star Trek'' universe -- almost from the beginning in '66. Copies of ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/T-Negative T-Negative]]'', ''[[https://archive.org/details/Spockanalia1 Spockanalia]]'' and others were mailed to the ''Star Trek'' studios; Roddenberry and the cast expressed surprised appreciation. Thus, NBC and Paramount were well aware of the level of fan interest, but it wasn't showing up in [[UsefulNotes/{{Ratings}} the Nielsen ratings]] -- this was before Nielsen refined their demographic analysis.[[note]]The often-quoted excuse that "they thought the show was mostly watched by little kids with no buying power" is often rebutted by those with experience in the world of children's television -- the kids may not have the money, but their parents do, and all kinds of [[TheMerch tie-in merchandise]] hit stores very early in Season One.[[/note]] It can be argued that Roddenberry was also sending stuff to save the show, by providing gifts and trinkets to the fans; fan mail was answered with enclosed film clip frames from the cutting room floor and autographed photos. Fans also received lists of mail-order premiums (later [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Lincoln_Enterprises Lincoln Enterprises]]) and a newsletter, ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Inside_Star_Trek_(Star_Trek_newsletter_in_English) Inside Star Trek]]''. The show was saved for a third season, which allowed it to meet the threshold number of episodes needed at the time for a syndication deal,[[note]] Kaiser Broadcasting, operating a small chain of local television stations along the West and East Coast, was the first broadcaster to buy the ''Star Trek'' syndication package, helped by the fact that owner Henry J. Kaiser was a huge fan of the series[[/note]] which helped lead to films and spin-off series, and eventually a whole franchise as time went on.
54* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' was saved by a letter-writing campaign and went on for several more seasons.
55* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' is both a success story and a saving throw failed. When Creator/ComedyCentral took it off the air, both a letter campaign and an ad in ''Variety'' saved it and brought it to the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]]. However, after three seasons there, the powers that be yanked it again and not even a letter campaign would save it. Then it was revived on Netflix.
56* Apparently, ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' was renewed for a second and final season because fans sent in socks, standing for the character Sock.
57* ''Series/Jericho2006'' managed to get a second season after fans sent crates full of nuts to the producers, in reference to Jake Green's "Nuts!" reply to the New Bern attackers' demand to surrender. Unfortunately, the ratings went down even further post-renewal and it didn't last very long, but did reach a conclusion of sorts.
58* Creator/JossWhedon fans began sending in letters to save ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' months before the first episode even aired. While they had their reasons (such as the FridayNightDeathSlot), Fox politely asked fans to wait until the series aired to start saving it. Ultimately, however, it did get renewed for another season.
59* When asked what to send, ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' producer Josh Schwartz suggested Nerds candy. One savvy fan decided it would be better to enlist advertisers. Playing off an especially shameless ProductPlacement, the "Finale and a Footlong" campaign had fans buy Subway sandwiches. Wanting a piece of the action, Nestle sent Nerds. The show managed to survive for a fifth and final season.
60* ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' fans sent Tabasco sauce and the show got two more seasons.
61* Fans of British sitcom ''Series/NotGoingOut'' successfully got the show {{Uncanceled}} in 2010 after a petition and letter-writing campaign.
62* Fans of ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' tried sending lipstick (Nikita once hid the detonator of a bomb in her lipstick) into Creator/TheCW around May 2011, when the network held up on telling of its fate. In the end, it turned out the network were trying to draw out the process to entice fans. Regardless, the show returned for a second season.
63* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' came back in movie form thanks to its fans almost literally throwing piles of money at its original creators, and later got a revival on Hulu.
64* Believe it or not, ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' had actually been cancelled during its fourth season. Thousands of fans sent in letters to NBC and Creator/WillSmith in response, and the campaign ultimately convinced the higher-ups to go back on its decision, uncanceling the show and allowing it to run for what would be two more seasons.
65* Though ''Series/DoctorWho'' had a bad incident with Michael Grade in control of Creator/TheBBC, it was ultimately taken down by another controller because the show's future was on shaky ground. Philip Segal brought it back for one TV movie, but it didn't go anywhere beyond giving fans a new incarnation of the Doctor. For years, fans devoted themselves to making their own pet projects to honor the series, and the DW magazines kept going even when it had been almost 10 years without any new material. Nothing significant took place until Creator/RussellTDavies succeeded in pitching a new format for the series to the BBC when it had given up on a family demographic. He immediately got support to start the revived series, and restored not just a whole culture from where it had left off, but on top of that, restored the family audience.
66** Another ongoing campaign is to get Creator/PaulMcGann an entire series as the seldom seen onscreen but runaway audio adventure hit Eighth Doctor. Paul ''himself'' has been one of the supporters. One of the byproducts of the demands to bring him back was "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]".
67* When Fox canceled ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'' after the third season due to low ratings, fans weren't happy, because it ended in a major {{Cliffhanger}} that has been set up the entire series, and raised hell (no pun intended) to bring it back. A massive online petition was started, with the hashtag [=#SaveLucifer=] trending for weeks. This got Warner Bros. to take action and shop the series around. [[JustInTime A day]] before the deadline for the series' contract expiration (which would have canceled it for good), it finally got a new home in Creator/{{Netflix}}, which renewed the series for a further three seasons.
68* After Creator/{{Syfy}} cancelled ''Series/TheExpanse'' after three seasons, a group of fans hired a plane to fly a "SAVE THE EXPANSE" banner around the offices of several major streaming services. Amazon Studios stepped in and gave the series a new home at Amazon Prime Video, where it got three more seasons.
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72* The now famous [[http://oprainfall.blogspot.com/ Operation Rainfall]] was an attempt to get Creator/{{Nintendo}} to localize their UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} [=RPG=]s ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'', ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and ''VideoGame/PandorasTower'' in North America. They sent letters to Nintendo's North American HQ trying to convince them to bring these games to North America. After their first attempt failed, they tried again with an even ''bigger'' letter-writing campaign. After a while, Nintendo eventually released ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' and licensed the localizations of ''The Last Story'' and ''Pandora's Tower'' to Creator/XSEEDGames.
73* When ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' was announced for the Japanese UsefulNotes/WiiU UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole [[NoExportForYou but nowhere else]], fans posted on Miiverse pleading Nintendo to release it in the west. In a later Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced an international release for ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', citing everyone's responses on Miiverse as the reason.
74* ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}'' was revived 25 years later thanks to the fans sending their money directly to Creator/InXileEntertainment to make a [[VideoGame/{{Wasteland2}} sequel]].
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78* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' fans sent diapers (for Stewie) to Fox to save the show. Though it didn't work initially, the show did come back a few years later due to good DVD sales and a strong performance on Creator/AdultSwim.
79* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' fans tried this with anchovies, though it never really caught on. However, it was eventually renewed because of its success on DVD and Creator/AdultSwim. In fact, the success of ''Family Guy'' allowed the creators to push for a series of DirectToVideo movies that serve as a fifth season, followed by two additional 26-episode seasons on Creator/ComedyCentral.
80* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' fans hoped that, even if they couldn't revive the show, they could at least get all the Weisman-episodes of the show on DVD (the third season did not have his involvement, and he's decried it as [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]). However, Buena Vista wouldn't budge on releasing the remaining episodes of Season 2 for almost a decade. Disney offices would randomly get gobs of Celtic[=/=]Scottish-centric objects, pictures, what have you, every now and then over the next several years until Season 2: Volume 2 finally released for Disney Movie Club members in June 2013. It would see general retail release the following year.
81* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' got screwed out of its impending GrandFinale movie known as ''The Jungle Movie'' in 2002, when an intended television movie (''Arnold Saves the Neighborhood'') got retrofitted into a [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie theatrical release]] and bombed at the box office. As a result, the series [[CutShort ended]] with two huge unresolved plotlines: Helga's feelings for Arnold, and the fate of Arnold's parents; the latter of which was the focus of one of the show's final episodes. For over a decade, it seemed that ''The Jungle Movie'' being made was an impossible dream; even creator Craig Bartlett had accepted it. Despite this, fans sent mail to Nickelodeon and wrote online petitions hoping the movie would get made. They also continued to support the show's [[VindicatedByReruns reruns]] on Nick's 90s block ''The 90s Are All That''. In November 2015, Nickelodeon would announce that the long-awaited ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie'' would be entering production as a television movie, and Bartlett would include a "Thank You" to the fans who never gave up hope in the ending credits.
82* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' campaign group Operation Head Pigeons and convention company Wasabi Anime joined forces for a letter writing campaign titled Project Massive in 2012. Invadercon II: Doomcon attendees sent letters to Nickelodeon with proof of donations to New York based charity Toys of Hope in lieu of physical items. Subsequently the mailing address went online for a second phase not requiring a donation, with visible Twitter-based support from Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz and Rikki Simons (voices of Zim and Gir respectively). Nick and creator Jhonen Vasquez ended up having several talks in the years following both because of these efforts and the show's success in reruns, resulting in [[ComicBook/InvaderZimOni a comic book series]] being announced in 2015 (which began running later that year) and a television movie called ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZimEnterTheFlorpus'' that can loosely be considered a GrandFinale getting announced in 2017 (and released on Creator/{{Netflix}} two years later).
83* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fans organized a letter-writing campaign to save the show, which despite its popularity, was being cancelled due to a strictly-enforced "65 Episode Rule" that Disney had begun putting in place for all television programming starting in the late 1990s. The campaign ended up abolishing the rule for good, and the show got a fourth and final season.
84* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' had a rare example of this trope that wasn't concerning the show's cancellation, but over the fact that the merchandise lacked Skye. Disappointed parents and fans used the hashtags "#[=IncludeTheGirls=]" and "#[=WheresSkye=]" to express their anger. This resulted in Spin Master putting out a line of Skye and Everest merchandise in North America, as well as more boy products with Skye on them. Overseas, this would count as "Nice Tries", since merchandise released there still does not have any girl characters on it.
85* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' fans sent in letters and petitions to Nickelodeon to save the show from getting the can, from 2001 to 2004. It played a huge part in the show's 2005 revival, but what really convinced the network executives to bring it back was continuous high ratings and merchandise sales. What happened ''after'' 2004, however, is [[FranchiseZombie somewhat controversial]].
86* After ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' was cancelled in 2013, fans organized letter writing campaign with beads attached to the letters, in reference to the character Ahsoka Tano, who [[spoiler: departed from the Jedi Order in the season 5 finale, which aired just a few days before the announcement]]. Dave Filoni stated in the announcement that some episodes were still going to be finished, and although it's unclear how much affect the campaign had in the completion of season six, both him and various others involved in the production claimed that they wouldn't have been able to finish without the support they got from the fans. Support for saving the show still continued past season six, and in 2018, ''The Clone Wars'' was [[UnCancelled renewed]] for a seventh season, which premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus in February 2020. This final season would see a proper conclusion to the seris, bringing the events of it up the very end of the Clone Wars and coinciding with the events of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
87* One major reason for the original cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' was because of how sales of tie-in merchandise for the show were underperforming. When reruns of the series premiered on Netflix three years later, interest in the series was revived and fans began creating new petitions demanding a third season of the show. In November of the same year, all that hard work paid off with the announcement of ''Young Justice: Outsiders'' for the Creator/DCUniverse streaming service; the season did well enough on the service that there is now a fourth one in production for Creator/HBOMax.
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93* ''ComicBook/ScreamCurseOfCarnage'' was announced as a dark, gritty continuation of the story of fan-favorite character Andi Benton, but was cancelled six issues in due to Marvel raising its sales standards in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacting brick-and-morter comic stores. Outraged fans -- who'd had to suffer through five years of Andi being sidelined and depowered -- took to Twitter and Change.org to petition Marvel to renew the series. While that ultimately never happened, Marvel ''did'' give Clay [=McLeod=] Chapman leave to write a couple of one-shots for ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' that hastily wrapped up as many dangling plot-threads as they could, and included Andi in ''ComicBook/ExtremeCarnage''.
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97* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'''s fans, the Browncoats, sent in postcards, rather than letters. While they were not successful in getting the show {{Uncanceled}}, they did manage the unprecedented result of getting the SeriesFinale as a theatrically released [[Film/{{Serenity}} feature film]]. Accounts vary what Joss Whedon himself wanted and anticipated. Some say that the hope was for the film to renew enough interest for the network to continue the series, while the others say that the film was intended as closure from the beginning.
98** Years after ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Nathan Fillion jokingly told an interviewer that he would buy the rights to ''Firefly'' if he had the money. Their hopes reignited, the Browncoats rallied together and sent not letters, not postcards, but ''checks'' to make it happen. It got so heated that Fillion himself had to step in and calm the fanbase down, but not before expressing how proud he was of the fans.
99* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' fans' effort to save their show was called [[http://www.google.com/search?q=brascape BraScape]], wherein they sent bras to [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]]. They did not successfully get the show {{Uncanceled}}, but did get a MadeForTVMovie wrapping up the series. 'Scapers also sent in boxes of crackers (for the episode "Crackers Don't Matter"), but since this was close to 9/11 it was a serious hassle for the network to screen that many packages, so instead they started sending in postcards made from cracker boxes.
100* ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'' fans sent in many things, most notably sunglasses, after the title character's favorite accessory. Their efforts were rewarded another [[PostScriptSeason half a season]] to wrap things up.
101* After ''Series/Sense8'' was cancelled not long after its second season premiered, an intense backlash ensued on social media over how fans saw it as an unceremonious and tactless move on Creator/{{Netflix}}'s part, especially since it happened on the first day of LGBT Pride Month 2017 (several main and supporting characters on the show are LGBT, as are some members of the cast and crew). The fans created petitions and a hashtag calling for the show to be uncancelled, as well as threats to cancel their Netflix subscriptions ''en masse''. The pressure was enough to get Netflix to green-light a two-and-half hours long movie to [[WrapItUp conclude the main story and tie up the loose ends]].
102* When The CW cancelled ''Series/VeronicaMars'', fans tried to change their minds by sending in thousands of Mars Bars. It didn't work, but as the above section shows, there was a later success story with a crowdfunded movie.
103* Some ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' fans began to worry about the show's falling ratings during the third and fourth season, and started sending waffle mix to the network in a plea for them not to axe the show. It hung on for a while longer but was canceled after season five.
104* When Creator/{{Freeform}} cancelled ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'' after three seasons, fans created petitions and the hashtag [=#SaveShadowhunters=] in an attempt to get the show uncancelled. There was some minor controversy when Freeform [[https://deadline.com/2018/12/freeform-shadowhunters-toy-story-popnknowledge-pixar-disney-abc-twitter-saveshadowhunters-1202521157/ included a jab at the fan protests]] in a ''Pop'N Knowledge'' presentation of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1''. Eventually, Freeform compromised by green-lighting the production of two extra episodes to [[WrapItUp conclude the main story and tie up the loose ends]].
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108* ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'': In 2006, when Ride/UniversalStudios announced their decision to replace the attraction with ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'' at both the Hollywood and Orlando parks, fans immediately went to work doing everything they could to save them; posting online petitions and writing letters to make the parks reconsider, but to no avail. However, the Hollywood park at least decided to hold a ceremony a month before the official closing in 2007. Notably, Creator/ChristopherLloyd and ''BTTF'' co-creator Bob Gale were in attendance and a contest was held for the grand prize of [[CoolCar a classic 1981 DMC-12 DeLorean]] alongside other memorabilia. As a kind gesture, Universal later made the ride videos available to the public on the 25th Anniversary home media re-release of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy in 2010. The last operating iteration of the ride closed at Universal Studios Japan in 2016.
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112* The efforts to revive ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity'' following its cancellation in May 2016 have been quite a roller coaster ride, with the game's devoted fanbase's efforts to get the game UnCancelled seemingly being for naught until the pay-off came in an unexpected manner well over a year after ''Infinity'' was cancelled. Back when the game was originally announced to be discontinued, the fanbase was enraged and began fighting to save the game. Their efforts ranged from just rallying to out-right uncancel the game (if not for years to come, then at least to the end of the fourth quarter of 2016 so ''Infinity'' could have its last hoo-rah for Christmas), to licensing the rights to the game and figures to someone else (Square Enix and Electronic Arts being popular candidates), to at least releasing the promised WesternAnimation/PeterPan figure (who was hand picked to get a figure by some of the game's big name fans) or even the heavily teased figures of [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Dipper and Mabel]] (Mabel won a Player's Pick poll shortly before the announcement) and/or WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck (who had been teased since the game's ''2.0'' release) as a final thank-you to the fanbase. The hashtag "[=#SaveDisneyInfinity=]" gathered some steam on various social media websites, and [[https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-save-disney-infinity?recruiter=539743505&utm_campaign=signature_receipt_fb_dialog&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition this online petition]] gathered more than 10,000 supporters in less than a month. Nonetheless, considering that Disney wrote down a financial loss on the day of its cancellation, and they later laid out their end-of-life plans for the game, these fans' efforts seemed pretty much fruitless to begin with... or at least it seemed that way for a very long time. October 2017 came with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRa86E9cQ1w the surprise announcement]] of a new action-figure toyline based directly on ''Infinity'''s beloved figures/designs. Later, the characters' ''Infinity'' designs were also reused for a personal greeting program included with Samsung S9 phones, and a tribute to the series was very nearly included in ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' before being replaced with the Oh My Disney crossover sequence. While ''Infinity'' as a video game is unlikely to return[[labelnote:*]](especially considering that, as a whole, the Toys-to-life genre bubble seems to have burst (outside of Amiibo) in the months since then, with ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'' announced to be concluding in October 2017 and ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' not having any significant announcements since the latest game's release)[[/labelnote]], fans can rest assured that ''Disney Infinity'' has not been forgotten and that its legacy will live on, considering the fact that there's at least a modding community in which, they'll continue doing the support of this game.
113* When ''VideoGame/{{MUSECA}}'' was excluded from the 7th Konami Arcade Championship that ran from late 2017 to early 2018, fans immediately surmised that Konami was planning to retire the game and launched social media campaigns to save the game, such as using the hashtag #SAVE_MUSECA in Twitter posts. While Konami eventually retired the game in mid-2018, they at least had the courtesy to distribute offline kits so that fans can keep playing it.[[note]]This is in contrast to ''VideoGame/BeatStream'', which was retired without offline kits in 2017, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes forcing players to resort to piracy if they want to ever play it again]].[[/note]]
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117* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' fans campaigned for years over a fifth season after the series ended in 2008. After some years of deliberation, [=MoonScoop=] eventually made a completely new show instead. A {{sequel series}} titled ''Series/CodeLyokoEvolution'' premiered in 2013, and was a live-action/animation hybrid that had no creative input from the original production team and which received [[BrokenBase mixed response from the fanbase]], lasting a single season.
118* Not just letters and posters of fan-arts, but a small group of fans actually held ''rallies'' located around the offices of major {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}-based networks for years to try and convince the big wigs to bring back the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork canceled]] ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. After Creator/ButchHartman left Nickelodeon in 2018, he also stated his passion for the series and a desire to see it return, telling fans to continue pushing for it. Eventually, the show would return as a graphic novel series headed by artist Gaby Epstein, with the first installment (''ComicBook/DannyPhantomAGlitchInTime'') releasing in July 2023 and taking place where ''WesternAnimation/PhantomPlanet'' left off.
119* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': After the show ended abruptly on a bleak cliffhanger, the show got axed as a tax write off due to the Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery merger. Many of the fans and series creator Olan Rogers were blindsided by this decision and refused to give up on the show. Olan in particular launched a Kickstarter campaign involving an animated short called ''Godspeed'', saying that the short will not only be heavily influenced by ''Final Space'' but also incorporate unused ideas from planned future seasons into it. Olan also made several products available on sale in his online shop Star cadet that demanded for the show’s renewal, including t-shirts and caps. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IRg6C8mqhTk Eventually]], Warner Bros relented and he was given permission to license the ''Final Space'' IP and conclude the show’s story in the form of a self-published graphic novel, which is scheduled to release in 2024.
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124[[folder:Anime]]
125* There was a plan by ''Anime/TheBigO'' fans to send tomatoes to Creator/CartoonNetwork, but there wasn't much turnout for that.
126* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
127** Save our Voice Actors, an organization that tried to get the original 4kids English voice actors back once sent pasta to the new dubbing studio because the last episode to use the original voice actors prominently featured noodles. It failed.
128** Around the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'', Brazilian fandom gathered over 10,000 signatures in a petition to not change the voice of Ash, as the dub producers was considering it due to the logistics of remote recording (the voice actor had moved to Portugal). It worked and he remained... for one more season, as in the next the producers moved the dub to another city and thus cast altogether, without even warning the old voices.
129* The ''Anime/SailorMoon'' "procott" is a strange example for a number of reasons. Instead of the network, it was targeted at the ''advertisers''. The plan was to buy a whole bunch of unfrosted strawberry Pop-Tarts on a single day, creating a sales spike that would demonstrate the fans' buying power and prove that the series was a good investment. Whether or not this ZanyScheme could have worked in the first place is debatable, but the really interesting bit was that ''the fandom was against it''. The original Creator/DiC dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was notorious for [[DubInducedPlotlineChange questionable scripting]] and [[{{Bowdlerise}} some significant edits.]] A number of fans wanted the North American dub dead so that they could [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keep their]] [[SubbingVersusDubbing fansubs]]. The split killed any chance of the stunt succeeding, and the fact that the chief organizing fan-group had a reputation for spreading false rumors and disinformation didn't help. The series was later brought back anyway after reruns did [[SleeperHit surprisingly well]] on Creator/CartoonNetwork. But Pop-Tarts were an in-joke in the fandom for some time thereafter.
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133* A [=#RestoreTheSnyderVerse=] campaign sparked in the wake of the release of ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' to globally positive reception, this time aiming at continuing from where the film left off. Then-[=WarnerMedia=] Executive Ann Sarnoff had made it clear in a press release that Creator/WarnerBros had no intent to produce follow-ups. While Sarnoff lost her job along with Toby Emmerich and Walter Hamada in the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, a newly appointed Creator/JamesGunn (as the co-head of Creator/DCStudios) made it more or less clear that a ContinuityReboot is happening under his watch. The first major sign of this was Creator/HenryCavill leaving the role of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, despite having [[RoleReprise reappeared]] in TheStinger of ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' at a time when Creator/DwayneJohnson tried to have input on the direction DC Studios was taking (the mediocre results of ''Black Adam'' likely had a part in Johnson losing influence over DC Studios to Gunn).
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137* A fan campaign for a ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fourth season failed, along with fan efforts to have ABC pick up the show. Long after the show was off the air, fans were writing to NBC, Paramount and Bantam Books (which published the Creator/JamesBlish adaptions) to express continued interest, leading to ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', many more original professional novels, and the ''Phase Two'' project. Joan Winston, Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Sondra Marshak documented the history of the post-cancellation fan campaigns in their 1975 book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives! Star Trek Lives!]]'', which [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives!_(book) generated even more fan interest]].
138* ''Series/{{Cupid}}'' fans sent in letters, but were unsuccessful in saving the show. Years later, it ended up {{Uncanceled}} for other reasons. Unfortunately, the new version suffered the same fate, as Creator/{{ABC}} aired it in the 10:00 pm hour on Tuesday nights, and repeatedly preempted it for another ultimately failed show, ''Series/TheUnusuals''.
139* Before ''Series/VeronicaMars'' was renewed for a second season, its fans organized a campaign to send in fake $2 bills with the words "Veronica Mars is smarter than me" written on them. Before it was renewed for a third season, a group of fans called Cloud Watchers rented a banner plane to fly over the offices of Creator/{{UPN}} and Creator/TheWB with a banner saying "Renew Veronica Mars! CW 2006!" Before the third season aired, fans even spread around flyers for the show. When it was finally canceled at the end of the third season, some fans sent Mars Bars (and after they ran out, Snickers) to Creator/TheCW. It didn't work that time, unfortunately, though the series did eventually got a movie and a revival on Hulu many years later.
140* Fans of ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'' sent in letters and sunflower seeds in an attempt to get the show un-cancelled, to no avail. NBC owns Creator/USANetwork, and the now-defunct show has more than a passing similarity to their then-fair-haired child show, ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', so ''The 4400'' may be a case of ScrewedByTheNetwork when all is said and done.
141* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was going to get canceled on UPN after its fourth season, so fans actually organized a money-raising campaign to essentially ''reimburse UPN for its losses.'' They actually succeeded in raising several million dollars, but it was canceled anyway.
142* ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'''s fandom was up in arms after it was [[WordOfGod confirmed by a cast member]] that there wouldn't be a third season. An online petition was started and many emails were sent, but to no avail. The show would have a proper finale, though TheStinger did open up the possibility for the third season that never happened.
143* ABC canceled ''Series/PushingDaisies'' as of November 20, 2008, despite a daisy sending campaign from the fans. They dangled the show in limbo for a while before airing the last few episodes. There was a ''Pushing Daisies'' comic miniseries to wrap up the show, however.
144* Fans of the ''Series/{{Witchblade}}'' TV series sent in Pez dispensers (as in Sara '''Pez'''zini, the lead character). However, as the series was canceled because of the lead actress being entered into a detox program, no amount of fan goodwill could avert the cancellation.
145* Fans of ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'' sent in confetti and other sparkly stuff to the Sci-Fi Channel in an attempt to get the series renewed for a third season, but since this was during the anthrax scare these didn't get to the intended audience. The show ended up being cancelled.
146* Fans of ''Series/{{VR5}}'' formed a group called "Virtual Storm" whose letter-writing campaign ''did'' get the studio to green-light a TV movie to tie up the storyline. Unfortunately, the cast had moved on to other things by then, the scriptwriting foundered, and the whole thing fell apart before it got very far.
147* Creator/ABCFamily only purchased 1 season of ''Series/TheMiddleman''. Although fans sent in M&Ms chocolate candies (because right side up they invoke the Middleman himself, and upside down, they look like Ws, invoking Wendy Watson), the show was still canceled.
148* The first season of ''Series/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' ended on more than one CliffHanger, but that didn't stop ABC Family from [[ScrewedByTheNetwork pulling the plug on it]]. Fans sent in postcards and letters, made phone calls, swarmed the feedback option on the website and started a Website/{{Facebook}} fan movement to get it back for at least one more season in order to get some closure.
149* Fans of the short-lived series ''Series/{{Journeyman}}'' sent in boxes of Rice-A-Roni (a San Francisco-born product, as the show was set in the city) in an attempt to get the show renewed for a second season, to no avail.
150* Fans of ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' organized blood drives in an attempt to get the show saved, to no avail.
151* Fans of ''Series/KyleXY'' sent in Sour Patch Kids, the titular character's favorite snack, in an effort to save that show, in addition to an online petition. Unfortunately, since the show has been cancelled for two years, having ended on a {{cliffhanger}}, and the actors have all moved on to do different things, it seems unlikely that it will be renewed for another season, or given a movie finale like ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
152* In addition to the usual letters and phone calls, one fan allegedly sent her broken TV to FOX to protest the cancellation of ''Series/TheLoneGunmen''.
153* ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'' had a short-lived Save Dresden Files campaign in 2007 which consisted primarily of sending in drumsticks engraved with "SAVE DRESDEN FILES". Drumsticks were what Dresden used in the series as a blasting rod/wand.
154* An apocryphal story holds that fans of the Advertising/{{GEICO}} ''Cavemen'' ad campaign sent in their own hair to protest the cancellation of the ''Series/{{Cavemen}}'' TV series, apparently inspired by the nuts sent to save ''Series/Jericho2006''.
155* ''Women's Murder Club'' fans sent Hershey's Kisses (because the BigBad was named the Kiss-Me-Not Killer). The show was granted a few extra episodes to finish the season, but was canceled after that when ratings didn't improve.
156* ''Series/GuidingLight'' fans sent in candles with the message "Keep the light shining!" to convince Creator/{{CBS}} to reverse their decision to cancel the show, to no avail.
157* Fans of ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' sent in bars of soap to CBS to protest the show's cancellation. After concerns that the soap might have contained anthrax (it ''didn't'', by the way), the FBI was called in to investigate.
158* Fans of ''Series/TheNewAdventuresOfOldChristine'' sent in wine corks, unfortunately the ratings of the fifth season weren't high enough for the execs to justify renewing it.
159* For ''Series/Awake2012'' some fans sent red and green rubber bands. The show didn't end up getting anything past the first season, but creator Kyle Killen did once mention the possibility that he'd continue the story in book form at some point.
160* ''Series/{{Everwood}}'': It was CutShort so that the network could produce another show, past its prime days. ''Everwood'' fans rented a ferris wheel outside of Dawn Ostroff's offices, attempting to help renew the show, but to no avail.
161* Fans of ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'' sent scarves -- the main character's IconicItem -- to Creator/{{ABC}}, but the network ultimately didn't renew the show for a second season, leaving the finale rather open-ended. Similar writing campaigns to convince other networks and digital services to pick up the show yielded similar results.
162* Ever since ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' got canceled by Disney Channel, fans have been endlessly requesting that Creator/{{Netflix}} would pick up the rights to the show to continue it (complete with its own hashtag for the campaign, [=#GirlMeetsNetflix=]), asking Disney Channel to release the rights so it can be continued there, and some even ask Creator/{{Hulu}} to pick it up.[[note]]Except the show is a hit worldwide for its life lessons, so sending it on Hulu is not a good choice as the service is only available in the US and Japan, unlike Netflix which is available worldwide.[[/note]] Some even planned to send paper airplanes to the three companies involved as a ShoutOut on the transition scenes where Riley throws the paper plane. Even some internet sites [[http://www.justjaredjr.com/2017/01/10/girl-meets-world-fans-rally-netflix-to-pick-up-the-show-girlmeetsnetflix/ noticed the big]] [[http://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/girl-meets-world-fans-ask-netflix-to-revive-disney-show/ efforts the fandom]] [[http://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/news/a44333/girl-meets-world-fans-think-netflix-is-the-last-hope-to-save-the-show/ is doing]] just to have the show continue. Even Netflix customer service representatives encouraged them to keep up the fight. Sadly, when all was said and done, the ploy failed as creator Michael Jacobs took to Twitter to [[https://twitter.com/GMWWriters/status/859787187537141760 proclaim]] that he wasn't able to get another company (Netflix included, presumably) to pick up the show.
163* After ''Series/{{Caprica}}'''s cancellation, fans launched a campaign consisting in sending bags of apples to Creator/{{Syfy}}, in reference to the show's promotional images, to no avail.
164* ''Series/TowerPrep'' fans sent in mass petitions, thousands of letters, fanart, and more and even went on a month-long boycott of Creator/CartoonNetwork in its entirety in an attempt to get the show renewed for a second season, especially since its first ended on a {{cliffhanger}}. It's highly unlikely the show will return, given how the show ended in 2010 and Cartoon Network has long given up on original live-action programming.
165* Fans of the pre-Paul F. Tompkins multi-comedian version of ''Series/BestWeekEver'' once discussed sending in cans of soup to Creator/{{VH1}}, the point being that after ''Series/TheSoup'' became a hit, they didn't need another one-host pop culture-mocking clip show. With ''Best Week Ever'' having ended in 2010, barring a short-lived 2013-14 revival, and ''The Soup'' being canned in 2015, aside from a short-lived 2020 revival, it's safe to say its unlikely ''Best Week Ever'' will return in any form.
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169* Fans were completely appalled in 2016 when Ride/DisneyThemeParks announced that ''Ride/TheTwilightZoneTowerOfTerror'' at Disney California Adventure was going to be re-themed to an attraction based on the 2014 ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' film. Various online petitions attempted to avert the re-theme, but Disney simply ignored them and officially set its closure for January 2017.
170* Many fans around the world of ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'' were overwhelmingly infuriated over the Magic Kingdom version closing. Many of them made protests throughout the park trying to order Disney to cancel plans, and some of them sent angry letters to company officials. They even made T-shirts saying "Tell Me Why Mickey is Killing Mr. Toad". But despite their many attempts, Disney didn't budge and replaced the ride anyway.
171* Fans of Pleasure Island's Adventurer's Club at Ride/WaltDisneyWorld tried sending in maps and masks in their efforts to save it from closure with the rest of Pleasure Island. Sadly, Disney didn't budge; the Club was removed and Pleasure Island eventually became The Landing section at what is now Disney Springs.
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175* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'': The strategy included sending in blue flowers for [=GLTAS=], receipts for merchandise, keeping the episodes selling steady on iTunes, letters, e-mails, getting the show to trend on Twitter, and buying toys to donate to Ronald [=McDonald=] House Charities. Of course, ''Green Lantern: [=TAS=]'' toys were practically nonexistent due to the BoxOfficeBomb that was the ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' live-action movie, so movie toys or general [=DC=] Green Lantern toys were to be sent instead. Fans were able to gain enough buzz for Cartoon Network and [=DC=] to issue a joint statement reassuring them that they appreciate their support for the WesternAnimation/DCNation block, and Cartoon Network even started advertising the show on their Facebook account again for a while, but unlike fellow DC Nation show ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', renewal never happened. The final nail in the coffin for any hope was the announcement years later that while Creator/HBOMax ''would'' have a new, original ''Green Lantern'' series, it would be a live-action one that has nothing to do the cartoon.
176* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain''. After Book 3 began airing on Creator/HBOMax, creator Owen Dennis revealed in interviews that the show was cancelled, starting fans efforts to spread the word out through social media, with [[https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/8/20/21377124/infinity-train-book-3-review-hbo-max-new-seasons some]] [[https://www.cbr.com/infinity-train-deserves-more-seasons/ media]] [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/infinity-trains-creator-says-the-shows-future-is-in-jeo-1844852183 outlets]] and even other fandoms helping spread the message. Even more concentrated efforts to renew the series began when it turned out Book 4, which seemed like a win, [[ShaggyDogStory was announced to be the last season]], being part of the same production order as Book 3. Monthly Website/{{Twitter}} trending campaigns started being organized; the first of which managed to become the top trend in the United States for several hours (plus a prize giveaway ran by the creator himself and contributed to by [[http://web.archive.org/web/20210429155103/https://twitter.com/OweeeeenDennis/status/1387796477808840705 official brands]]), with later ones managing to trend as well. However, it would ultimately appear all for not; the show would be [[DenialOfDigitalDistribution quietly removed from HBO Max and other streaming services]] the following year, in addition to every single piece of social media content -- from Twitter posts to [=YouTube=] videos -- that even so much as mentioned the series being deleted.
177* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': When it was announced that a Disney executive had cut the show's third season short before the first season even finished airing, fans took to social media and petition sites to demand Disney at least give the series a proper third season, if not a fourth season. However, efforts died down when showrunner Dana Terrace -- who'd been blindsided by the decision herself and was also upset about it -- said that Disney wasn't budging and it was too late to change anything. It later transpired that Disney executives were unaware of how popular the show was -- having ignored the petitions and dismissed the series trending on social media -- until the Season 3 premiere, by which point it was too late to do anything.
178* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' fans were exhorted by the brother of one of the cast members to send purple shirts to Creator/CartoonNetwork. But the network didn't bite and Sym-Bionic Titan's single season is all there is.
179* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' fans launched the [[http://savewoy.tumblr.com/ #SaveWOY]] campaign. They bought episodes on iTunes, wrote letters and emails, and they sent [[https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-encourage-disney-to-make-wander-over-yonder-season-3 a ton of]] [[https://www.change.org/p/disney-xd-bring-wander-over-yonder-back-for-season-3 petitions to save]] [[https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-tell-disney-to-bring-wander-over-yonder-back-for-a-third-season the show]]. [[{{Music/Grottomatic}} One devoted viewer]] even tried to get the execs' attention by writing and performing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQLd6o-szo an original song]]. Creator/CraigMcCracken respectfully honored the fans' commitment, as did the cast and crew of the show, but there was no 11th hour save. The last episode of ''Wander Over Yonder'' aired June 2016, and [=McCracken=] would move on to create ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'' for Netflix before returning to Cartoon Network to head reboots/sequels to ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' and ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
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185* The US dub of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' has been on hiatus ever since its second season ended. Fans have sent in tons of letters and messages asking for a third season. The fate of the US dub is still undetermined. However the surprise localization of ''VideoGame/DoraemonStoryOfSeasons'' shows that the franchise has given some fans hope that the franchise hasn't totally abandoned the US.
186* Since spring of 2017, there has been a small effort by a group of fans on [[Website/DeviantART DeviantART]] and the dedicated wiki to demand Takara Tomy into creating a second season of ''Anime/MiracleWanda'' and continuning the adventures of the protagonists, despite Episode 47 explicitly ending with a [[GrandFinale definite conclusion]]. A petition has been made as well, and one fan has sent multiple letters to the company. The release of the English dub recently has given hope that a continuation could be coming.
187* On 2021, there's a similar situation for the Filipino Dub of ''Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card'' to get ''COMPLETELY'' done in a similar way to ''#[=ReleaseTheSnyderCut=]'' when it got CutShort for political reasons or whatever after there's a HistoryRepeats for Filipino Otakus who grew up with the series.
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191* There was a "[[http://wafflesforstephanie.tumblr.com/ Waffles for Stephanie]]" campaign, but Creator/DanDiDio claims to have only received ten or so. The tumblr maintainer disputes this, and there are plans for a second campaign, "The Halloween of Missing [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Batgirls]]," focusing on not just Stephanie Brown, but also Cassandra Cain, Helena Bertinelli, and Renee Montoya. Stephanie, Cassandra, Renee and even Helena (reimagined as a spy) were all eventually brought back into the new continuity at staggering points. It's largely due to fan support, but it's unclear it it had anything to do with any sort of "send stuff to DC" thing.
192* There was also the [[http://casscaincampaign.tumblr.com/ Cassandra Cain Fan Campaign]], an effort to get a concentrated group to buy the first issue of [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra's Batgirl series]] on Comixology, to prove she still has selling power.
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196* ''Series/TheMole'' had a "Save the Mole" campaign in 2008, after ABC said halfway through the 5th season that they won't renew the show for a 6th season unless the ratings improved for the second half of the season. They sent in "lemonheads" (not the candy, but actual lemons with faces painted on them, after Paul's unofficial mascot for the season.) The first two seasons of the series were eventually picked up by Netflix in 2021, followed by them commissioning an entirely new season which was released in 2022. Whether this had anything to do with the campaigns seems dubious at best, though the continued fan presence for the series certainly coudn't have hurt.
197* ''Series/{{Casualty}}'' and ''Series/HolbyCity'' fans have attempted to get [[FlatCharacter background]] [[GhostExtras extras]] converted into [[CharacterDevelopment proper characters]], e.g. in ''Casualty'', Big Mac, the porter, is a slightly minor character, but sometimes gets major storylines.
198* Fans of ''Series/TheHour'' organized a letter writing campaign to the BBC (or rather postcard writing, imitating postcards sent by Freddie to Bel between series 1 and 2) to protest the show's cancellation. They also have an online petition, a #savethehour twitter tag, a charity drive in the name of the cause, and have sent production company Kudos a yellow desk lamp having been informed that the BBC can't accept gifts.
199* ''Series/{{Hornblower}}'' fans have been known to organize postcard drives to get a revival or reboot made from time to time ever since the last installment of the miniseries aired in 2003.
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203* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', as a capstone to its {{troubled production}}, is not likely to ever be [[NoExportForYou localized abroad]] for a lot of speculated reasons, despite all of [[http://starmen.net/ebsiege/ EB Siege]]'s obsessive fan campaigns over the years. A very professional FanTranslation was finished and released in 2008, but the community still desires an official English localization. For Nintendo's part, they are fully aware of the demand and have [[https://youtu.be/4FgzkZC0reE?t=46 even joked about it]] on numerous occasions, but continue to avoid giving a direct answer to this day.
204* On August 31, 2012, in a "realignment of company focus," Creator/NCSoft shuttered Paragon Studios and announced that ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' would also shut down by November 30. In response, the player base (noted for setting up [[http://realworldhero.com/ its own charity drive]]) organized "Save [=CoH=]" with the intent of convincing [=NCSoft=] to sell rights to the game and its IP to investors, or to keep the game running. Efforts have included [[http://www.change.org/petitions/ncsoft-keep-ncsoft-from-shutting-down-city-of-heroes a petition with over 20,000 signatures]], [[http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4886.0.html letter-writing]] and [[http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,5022.0.html cape-and-mask-sending]] campaigns to [=NCSoft=], and a [[http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4935.0.html Unity Rally]] held on September 8 that included at least 6,000 participants and completely filled up the primary server designated for the rally. The player base also showed solidarity with the former Paragon Studios employees by [[http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/09/13/city-of-heroes-fans-buy-paragon-studios-a-meal-and-proclaim-alle/ raising $1,000 to buy them dinner]]. Big names like Creator/NeilGaiman, Felicia Day, [[Webcomic/PvP Scott Kurtz]], and Creator/MercedesLackey have also shown their support for the cause--and Mercedes, who is a ''City of Heroes'' player herself, [[http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4886.msg46374.html#msg46374 sent a proposal to NCSoft]] to advertise their games free of charge ''if'' they don't shut ''this'' game down.\
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206The player base [[http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-840174 has received]] [[http://kotaku.com/5941607/city-of-heroes-protest-takes-its-case-to-city-hall a ton of]] [[http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/09/09/fans-continue-to-show-spectacular-support-for-city-of-heroes/ media attention]], and the Unity Rally was streamed live by Joystiq's MMO subdivision Massively. "#[=SaveCoH=]" was also trending on Twitter during that day. On October 2nd, Creator/NCSoft released a statement claiming they had [[http://us.ncsoft.com/en/news/response-to-city-of-heroes-player-and-fan-suggestions.html "exhausted all available options on selling the rights of the studio"]] and would be shutting the game down anyway. However, some investors have said anonymously that [=NCSoft=] completely refused to negotiate sale of the game with them. In response, Titan Network [[http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,5467.0.html released a statement]] resolving to fight on all the way to the shutdown date.\
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208Although the game shut down on November 30 as announced, the player community continued its efforts to save the game--compounded with mounting negative attention paid to the handling of the game's closure by online media outlets. Mercedes Lackey organized "Task Force Hail Mary," [[http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,6354.0.html a business proposal]] sent to Disney in hopes that it may convince them to purchase the ''City of Heroes'' IP from [=NCSoft=]. The Korea Times [[http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2012/12/602_126197.html also interviewed Mercedes]] in light of ''City of Heroes''' closure, detailing just how poorly [=NCSoft=] handled the shutdown of the game.
209* Like with ''MÚSECA'' above, ''VideoGame/ReflecBeat'' was excluded from the 7th Konami Arcade Championship, leading to #SAVE_REFLEC_BEAT campaigns. The series remains online, but ceased to receive content updates...with the exception of a series of Konami 50th anniversary tracks that were added in March 2019, about a year after the last such update. Konami has not announced any further updates regarding the series, but do note that they have been supporting the same version of the game, ''Reflec Beat: The Reflesia of Eternity'' for over 2 1/2 years when most ''VideoGame/{{BEMANI}}'' games get new versions roughly once a year.
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212!!Wrath of the Viewership
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214[[folder:Anime]]
215* In UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}, the dubbing studio Agapio Racing Team, also known as Nordic Agapio, were fired from the dub of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' after fans sent in enough complaints about the dub to the show's distributor, who fired the group about a season or two into the series and hired another company to finish the series.
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219* A humorous example in ''Lunch with Soupy Sales'', a children's comedy show. In 1965, Creator/SoupySales was miffed at being denied a day off for New Year's Day. In retaliation, at the end of that day's live broadcast, he asked his juvenile audience to go into their parents' purses and wallets, find the "[[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/ little green pieces of paper]]", and mail them into the show. Kids sent in few dollars of legal tender and thousands in play money; Sales would state afterwards that any real money would be given to charity, but calls and letters from angry parents meant that he managed to get his original wish after all, in the form of a ''two''-week vacation. (Okay, technically he was suspended, but who's counting?)
220* Peter Berg's ''Wonderland''. While the network would claim the show was axed after only two episodes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010210205132/http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2000/apr00/news60413.html purely due to low ratings]], the series had also been hit with attempts by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) to organize an advertiser boycott, and was also victim to general outcry from mental health professionals due to the show's sensationalism of mental illnesses.
221* Large numbers of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans sent in acerbic letters complaining about the various scientific inaccuracies and how the show wasn't nearly as good as when they were children. They ''thought'' they were being "helpful", trying to restore their beloved show to its former glory. Unfortunately, Michael Grade (who, so the legend goes, was looking for an excuse to can the show anyway) interpreted the complaints as demands to cancel the series, and he did. This in turn, resulted in an even greater deluge of letters demanding the show be brought back, with an apocryphal story claiming some of them were [[CouldntFindAPen written in blood]]. It also resulted in a protest song titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ege9lQecazo "Doctor in Distress"]], which starred four ''Doctor Who'' regulars and a bunch of other celebrities.
222* This method was used as an attempt at cancelling two former blocks on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}-owned channels: ''[=NickMom=]'' on Creator/NickJr and ''Nick Studio 10'' on the main channel:
223** [=NickMom=] got flak for two reasons. One was a bit mundane: some parents of fussy children were frustrated that a good late-night option for preschool entertainment for their kids was gone. The other was bigger and more problematic: the channel's lack of an alternate feed meant that the block, which had shows with a lot of risqué humor [[DidntThinkThisThrough would air as early as 4PM in some parts of the country]]. While ''[=NickMom=]'' didn't get cancelled until 2015 due to budget cuts, the campaign at least managed "Nice Try"-status thanks to Nickelodeon addressing the content complaints by cutting the more adult programming in favor of tamer parent-themed [[{{Sitcom}} sitcoms]] such as ''Series/YesDear'', ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' and ''Series/SeeDadRun''.
224** ''Nick Studio 10'' was complained about due to the hosts' skits often interrupting the actual programming that was airing during the block, rather than just being wraparounds. The ''Nick Studio 10'' campaign was a proper success, with the block to end four months after it launched in response, save for a Labor Day special comprised of ''Series/SamAndCat''-themed segments.
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227!!Fictional Examples
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229[[folder:Comic Books]]
230* ComicBook/GastonLagaffe's antics end up getting him fired from the Dupuis Editions publisher. Then said publisher receives a ''massive'' amount of fan letters asking for Gaston to be rehired. He gets rehired, and his first job is to sort out the mountain of letters and answer to ''every one of them'' to thank his fans.
231* In a comic book adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', a villainous show host of a kids' show asked its fans (including Bubbles) to send in money without telling their parents. In this case, it wasn't so much to save the show from being cancelled, as it was a villainous plot to get money. Also, instead of threatening to cancel the show, ''all the characters would die'' if they got no money. The AnimatedSeries also has an episode like this. He indicates ''the world will end for the show's cast'' if they don't get money. So Bubbles robs the banks herself.
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235* In ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Kenneth tries to save TGS by sending sugar cubes. Unfortunately, the cubes got crushed in the way and were mistaken for anthrax, and Kenneth was tackled by Homeland Security.
236* The ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "One Life to Lose" has an inverted example; a group of internet fans all agree to send axes to the producers of their favorite soap opera as part of a campaign to get the head writer fired.
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239[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
240* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' once had Uncle Roy ("[[MadnessMantra Everybody loves Uncle Roy]]") begging his audience to send letters to protect him from the "big green monsters who want to take Uncle Roy off the air".
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244* The webcomic ''Webcomic/SaveHiatus'' is about this phenomenon. In it, the main cast, who are the fans of the fictional TV series ''Hiatus'', send in red thongs.
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248* In episode 16 of ''WebVideo/TheJerrySeinfeldProgram'', after a ''very'' critical letter made Jerry and George realize how far the show had fallen, they ask the audience to mail ideas for new episodes. This backfires when the following episode, written by someone named Josh Kantor, turns out to be absolute audacity (such as having Jerry and George declare their love for whores and exclaiming, "Fuck the cops!"). Episode 18 focuses on fallout of that episode as Jerry and George realize the "fans" aren't taking the low-quality state of the show seriously.
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252* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', D.W. organized a petition at her preschool to get the network to [[UnCancelled uncancel]] ''Mary Moo-Cow''. It didn't work as expected: [[spoiler:The show wasn't brought back due to the lead getting a new role as a business news anchor, but it ''did'' end up in syndication on another channel when a FictionalCounterpart of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' was unexpectedly cancelled (much to Arthur's chagrin).]]
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