Thanks to deah, Jordan and Kartraice for this:<\/p>\n
Readers say “Roswell” should stay. Sci-Fi fans rally for the WB show in USA
\nTODAY’S Save Our Show Poll.<\/p>\n“Sending Out an SOS”<\/p>\n
You didn’t really like most of the prime-time TV shows hovering “on the
\nbubble” between renewal and cancellation, but you cared enough to weigh in
\nanyway.<\/p>\nThe results of USA TODAY’s fourth annual Save Our Shows poll are in, and
\n38,415 readers voted, more than three times the 12,667 who responded last
\nyear.<\/p>\nCover Story<\/p>\n
Roswell which 44% of fans want renewed, and Fox’s X-Files spinoff, The Lone
\nGunmen, which 40% would like to see return.<\/p>\nRoswell, which drew similar fan support in last year’s poll, follows the
\nadventures of three high school aliens.<\/p>\nA Roswell fan from “day one” Deborah Kelley of Edgewater, Fla., says “the
\nshow gripped me right away. I couldn’t wait till the next week. To me,
\nRoswell, is the best show on TV and the only one I look forward to watching.”<\/p>\n“I cried when I found out that the show was taking a break for a while,”
\nwrote Erica Furst of Baltimore, adding ominously: “Just imagine what I will
\ndo if it really goes off the air!”<\/p>\nRoswell producer Jason Katims seems genuinely flattered by the outpouring:
\nNearly 16,000 voted to keep the show in USA TODAY’S poll, significantly more
\nthan any other show. The bad news: Roswell and Gunmen remain long shots for
\nnew seasons.<\/p>\nRoswell also has suffered from low ratings, and barely survived last season
\nuntil fans deluged WB with Tabasco Sauce (a plot point) to demonstrate their
\nsupport. A further complication: network irritation with the drama’s
\nproducer, 20th Century Fox Television, which is moving Buffy the Vampire
\nSlayer to UPN this fall. (WB may cancel Buffy spinoff Angel as well, but that
\nseries would shift to UPN.)<\/p>\nKatims says the Buffy drama makes renewal “more of a challenge” but hopes
\nlevel heads will prevail. “There might be a lot of heated feelings, but it’s
\nstories you have to look at, not the politics or business involved.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to deah, Jordan and Kartraice for this: Readers say “Roswell” should stay. Sci-Fi fans rally for the WB show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}