{"id":435,"date":"2000-04-13T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2000-04-13T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-07-02T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T19:25:55","slug":"notion-of-cancellation-alien-to-roswell-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/04\/notion-of-cancellation-alien-to-roswell-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Notion of cancellation alien to &#8216;Roswell&#8217; fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Chaz for sending this in! Note, this article contains a very minor mention of something that happens next week on the show!<\/p>\n<p>Only the parts relevant to Roswell are reprinted here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Notion of cancellation alien to &#8216;Roswell&#8217; fans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dusty Saunders<\/p>\n<p>From: Rocky Mtn News, Denver<\/p>\n<p>Dilemma of the day: How can fans show support for TV series facing cancellation?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the old-fashioned way \ufffd letters to the network. And the electronic age rage \ufffd a deluge of e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>But devotees of the WB&#8217;s Roswell, hot about the fact the high-school sci-fi drama is on the endangered list, have sent more than 3,000 bottles of Tabasco hot sauce to WB programmers.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninformed, the sauce is the favorite condiment of the town&#8217;s teen aliens. They sprinkle it on nearly everything.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the New Mexican town where aliens landed in 1947 (you do believe that, don&#8217;t you?) Roswell recounts the adventures of teens who arrived as infants on the space craft. They mingle with sympathetic non-alien teens in ongoing cat-and-mouse suspense situations.<\/p>\n<p>Premiering in September in a Wednesday night time period, Roswell started strongly in the ratings race. Like so many freshman series, it has lost its impetus as viewers have been drifting away.<\/p>\n<p>The WB recently moved Roswell to Monday (8 p.m. KWGN-Channel 2) in an effort to see if fans respond. Next week&#8217;s episode deals with the use of a surveillance camera. Keep in mind we&#8217;re dealing with 1947-48 here.<\/p>\n<p>While not a weekly follower of Roswell, I hope the fans&#8217; saucy campaign works. The series has much more dramatic weight than most of the fluffy-romantic tales on the WB.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m more concerned with the future of ABC&#8217;s Sports Night, which, like Roswell, is on the scheduling bubble for next season.<\/p>\n<p>So what can fans send ABC to indicate their support of Sports Night?<\/p>\n<p>How about athletic supporters? (OK, they&#8217;re also called jock straps.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of the artilce here: http:\/\/insidedenver.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Chaz for sending this in! Note, this article contains a very minor mention of something that happens next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}