{"id":2551,"date":"2002-05-01T18:34:49","date_gmt":"2002-05-01T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2008-08-20T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T16:37:07","slug":"season-4-petition-sent-to-sci-fi-fox-frakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/05\/season-4-petition-sent-to-sci-fi-fox-frakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 4 Petition Sent to Sci Fi, Fox, Frakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Campaign Crew:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A BIG thanks to jero for taking care of all of this! PassionFruit deserves credit for starting the petition and Mariarulesalways2 also jumped in to help at one point. Here&#8217;s what jero posted at the Roswell 2 board:<\/p>\n<p>THE SEASON 4 PETITION IS ON IT&#8217;S WAY!!! to the Sci Fi Channel, Fox Television and Jonathan Frakes<\/p>\n<p>Sent 2 Day FedEx Express, April 30, 2002 at 12:51:26 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the covers. They were all so good that I couldn&#8217;t pick just one.<br \/>\nA BIG Thank You for designing these!!!:<\/p>\n<p><s>Sci-Fi ~ Cover design by M. Danadio (don&#8217;t know screen name)<br \/>\nSci Fi ~ Volume 2<br \/>\nFOX ~ Cover design by I_Believe_In_You<br \/>\nJonathan Frakes ~ Cover design by cherrycoke Max&#8217;s Love Slave<br \/>\nThe back of all 3 ~ Cover design by jero &#8211; when did I find the time???<\/s><\/p>\n<p>Interesting facts:<br \/>\n1. 25,167 signatures (at time of printing)<br \/>\n2. 553 printed pages (small font, Ariel 8pt)<br \/>\n3. Signatures from approx. 85 countries!<br \/>\n4. The original, one-sided pages, was 3&#8243; (7.5 cm) thick and had to be bound in 2 volumes. According to FedEx it weighed 6.7 pounds.<br \/>\n5. The copies, double-sided pages, were 1.75&#8243; (4.5 cm) thick. According to FedEx they weighed 3.35 pounds each.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main text of the cover letters:<\/p>\n<p>We, the undersigned, would like to present you with this petition to continue the Roswell Television series for a fourth season.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the people who signed this petition did so when it appeared that UPN might renew Roswell for a fourth season. Despite UPN&#8217;s decision not to do so, we feel that this petition shows the global interest and dedication of Roswell\u2019s worldwide fan base.<\/p>\n<p>The following 25,167 signatures and comments from approximately 85 countries were collected through an online petition that can be viewed at http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/roswell4\/petition.html .<br \/>\nThe petition continues to be signed.<\/p>\n<p>Since only people with online access are able to sign the petition, it represents a small portion of how many people would follow Roswell for a fourth season on Sci-Fi when it airs.<\/p>\n<p>We fervently hope to soon see the announcement that there will indeed be a fourth season of Roswell on Sci-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>You can contact the renewal campaign committee at: campaigns@crashdown.com .<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nGlobal Fans of Roswell<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Campaign Crew: A BIG thanks to jero for taking care of all of this! PassionFruit deserves credit for<\/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-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}