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EXCLUSIVE: I've just been told by an insider that "there is a chance, only a chance" that Media Rights Capital which will be programming Sunday's two hours on the CW "may elect to take Moonlight as one of those two hours". This is developing to be quite a behind-the-scenes drama because the order came from Warner Bros TV this afternoon to start tearing the Moonlight sets down. But now WBTV will wait until Friday. Before it was cancelled, it had more than twice the number of viewers on CBS than Gossip Girl despite all the hype. So Moonlight could wind up the most watched CW show. Stay tuned.
Primetime Pilot Panic: 'Moonlight' To CW?
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Oh, God please, please let this be happen. Moonlight cannot be lost.
Thank you for posting this information! I really do hope we can Moonlight back on the TV and/or Movie screen.
Moonlight had it all, great writers, awesome chemistry between ALL the cast members and very talented actor/actress. As Mick said in a back stage photo shoot. When Sophia Myles comes to the set the Magic erupts.
Moonlight is loved and missed by so many people all over the world.
It appeals to people of all ages!
I believe Moonlight did indeed unite the world!
Thanks you Nikkie for keeping us updated like this about Moonlight.
What do you reckon are the chances of a CW move actually happen?
if cw does this i will be happy to no end. this show is incredible and deserves its second chance. go moonlight!
Oh how I hope this turns out to be true!! Please, CW!!
Well, that will get the hits on this site.
Holy Crap! That’s friggin awesome if it happens! YAYAYAYAYAYAY! Okay, so, calming down now. Please please please let this happen!
God bless them if they pick Moonlight up!!!! They must have heard our cries!!
Please let this be true! I will follow Moonlight ANYWHERE! I’ll even stand on my roof with a tin foil hat if I can get reception!
My heart is broken…
Please let this happen. Then CBS can see how insanely stupid they was to cancel Moonlight a show with so much potential to be the next best thing
Please let this be true and pan out… Moonlight so deserves to be picked up. The fan base will heavily support any network that does!
CW would be wise to make this move.. Moonlight has a huge fanbase that will follow & support it anywhere anytime. We are so loyal!
Nikki, this is keeping hope alive…PLEASE, WB, hold off for a little while and let all of us work to save the show! –Allegrita (hoping against hope)
There has got to be an intelligent life form in the show business industry with the power to take on a quality show that is followed by millions of devoted viewers. CW has been very successful with “Supernatural” and Moonlight would be a feather in their cap.
PLEASE let this happen….
Nikki, thank you very much for posting this. It helps us to keep hope alive…PLEASE, WB, don’t tear down the sets without giving us a chance to save the show! –Allegrita
Hey, I say give us your poor, your underrated, your ratings-deprived. Give us Moonlight! Give us Jericho! Let CW be the network where good TV lives again.
Thank you Nikki!
I have just emailed CW through its main web site to let them know I will become a loyal CW watcher if they take on Moonlight. Wherever Moonlight goes – the fans will follow!
Long live Moonlight!
OMG! I hope moonlight goes for a second season. It deserves it.Please CW Make us all happy and you will get all of our attention and your rating will for sure go up. MOONLIGHT ROCKS!!!!!!!:)
I will follow Moonlight to wherever they go and be eternally grateful and loyal to whichever network picks them up. I just caught a link where Alex was saying that if Moonlight were on cable, there would be more blood and sex… ‘nough said!
Please CW take moonlight you will gain so much viewers.
I am just devastated that CBS has cancelled ML, but I’ll tell you what, if the CW picks it up, I will get cable just to see it. I would follow ML anywhere!! Please CW, if CBS has cancelled ML, please grab hold of this amazing show, this will totally boost your viewership!
I really hope ‘Media Rights Capital’ does choose to put ‘Moonlight’ in one of the available time slots. Moonlight would be such a great fit for the CW.
So I honestly hope this is true.
I am just devastated that CBS has cancelled ML…such a bonehead move! This show is incredible…please CW, if CBS has cancelled ML, please grab hold of this amazing show…this will only boost your viewership! I will get cable just to see this show…this is the only show I have ever campaigned for and I will follow it anywhere!
This would be the best move the CW could make. Not only are they gaining a huge fanbase, but an extraordinary cast. At least they could give it a try for one season. They won’t be disappointed with the results!
I was horrified to find out just now that my favorite show, Moonlight, has been cancelled. Please, CW, pick it up! All the loyal fans like myself will keep watching!
If this works, CW has a new viewer, smack bang in the most coveted demographic and with lots of disposable income. Just sayin’.
Thank you, Nikki, for all the updates.
That is the best news I have heard today…Please make it become a reality…I love Moonlight and it would be great to have it on CW…I will say an extra prayer tonight.
Thanx so much Nikki and be assured CW, that all of us loyal vampinettes will be following ML wherever it’s headed to. More power to MOONLIGHT!
Yes! Please! Whatever night of the week they want– Sunday, you-name-it-day I will *be there*!
Now how do we fans get in touch with “Media Rights Capital” to let them know we want them to pick-up Moonlight!?!??!
Thank you for the news. I haven’t been adicted to a show since 10 years ago. Yes 10 long years. So I was so happy with Moonlight and so sure of the second season.Since it was cancelled lets’ just say I’ve been really down so this are good news for me. I don’t care which channel shows Moonlight I will follow. By the way CBS can forget me watching any of their shows. Just a way to show them the same support they show me and the rest of the fans. Thank you Nikki.
YESSS!!!!! This would be sooo great!! Moonlight on the CW!!! Media Rights Capital, if you pick up Moonlight, WHENEVER you put it on, I’ll watch, WHATEVER I have to miss to do so — and I’m not the only one!!
Please, let this happen! I will follow Moonlight anywhere. (And I’m in the demo, just like all my Moonlight-obsessed friends.)
My girlfriend loves this show, i personally didn’t like it when it was called forever knight
It IS better than the ghost whisperer, but so are 90% of the shows CBS has cancelled the past decade…bring back american gothic
Hope CW goes for it. I’ll follow Moonlight wherever it lands.
Thank you Nikki for giving us a ray of Moonlight!
This is awesome news for all of the Moonlight fans; and if it comes true it will be a special thing indeed. Nikki: Thanks for giving us this glimmer of hope. Now the big question: How do we reach out to the Media Rights Capital people so we can *encourage* them to do this for real? As you know the Moonlight fans are rapid and faithful. We won’t give up without a fight and we will bring our passion to the door of any group that is willing to go to bat for the show. Your help putting us in touch with the right people would be invaluable.
Thanks for the small ray of sunshine. I’ll follow Moonlight anywhere. And I’d love to give CW more of my business. Please CW and Media Rights Capital, give this show a chance. There is such a devout following. I guarantee they’ll sustain a quarter or more of the audience, without a doubt. And we are quality downloaders. I buy from Amazon (’cause it’s up fast) and iTunes (’cause it’s compatible with my mp3 player) every weekn. Please, please please please CW and Media Rights Capital, make me not sad.
figures an intelligently and cleverly written show, that requires creativity and imagination CBS decides to cut-ARGHHHHHH or should i say Rahh Rahhh
I hope CW picks up the show and runs with it. It has a huge fan base and on crappy friday night time slot to boot! Please!
I am not a tv watcher per se [devoted Boston Legal and House Fan] but Moonlighting for me makes it the trifecta!
Please. Please, Please keep this show going!
Oh man! After the day I’ve had, this truly is an oasis in the desert. I know nothing’s in stone yet, but just the slightest glimmer of hope after all the hopelessness I’ve been reading today…
It’s now 1.45am here in the UK and I finally feel that I can go to bed and actually sleep – although it’ll be pretty uncomfortable with my fingers, arms, legs and anythig else I can cross; crossed! lol
Please CW, please Media Rights Capital, grab this show whilst you can. Where this show goes, over 7 million people are likely to follow! ;o) You won’t regret it!
Please keep emailing WARNER BROTHERS. Tell them not to give up on MOONLIGHT. Loyal viewers will follow.
Vampire solidarity, rah, rah, rah!
http://www.warnerbros.com/main/help/customer_service.html
Please CW pick Moonlight. You already have the fans waiting. I’ve had a really bad day today thanks to CBS. I’m a loyal fan, so please give me some good news. Thanks Nikki.
It would be wonderful just to have Moonlight shown somewhere! I’m sure with it’s loyal following of fans it will be a winner for whoever takes it on!
I will follow Moonlight wherever it goes. The cast is wonderful and the show deserves the respect it has earned and that CBS obviously is blind to.
This is such amazing news! I’m already an avid watcher of both Supernatural and Reaper, which both appear on the CW. Both of which, might I add, are genre shows. So let’s hope this pans out, and CBS will realize what a horrbile decision they made and what potential they threw away.
Please let this be true. Moonlight deserves a second season. Please pick it up CW! Moonlight fans will follow this show anywhere.
I THINK THAT IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT CBS TOOK A NOSE DIVE,THEY HAVE BEEN ON TOP FOR SO LONG IT’S TIME THEY HIT BOTTOM OR AT LEAST BE THE SECOND PLACE NETWORK.
I AM WITH ALL OF YOU , I WILL FOLLOW MOONLIGHT TO WHATEVER NETWORK THEY GO TO NBC/ABC/CW WHEREVER.
I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY CBS REGRETS WHAT THEY HAVE SO EASILY TURNED AWAY.THEY ARE SO MONEY HUNGRY AND MONEY HUNGRY PEOPLE WILL LOSE AT SOME POINT IN TIME, THEY WILL GAMBLE AND LOSE.
ALEX O’LAUGHLIN (TRAVELING THE WORLD,THE POOR MAN IS EXAUSTED) AND THE CAST OF MOONLIGHT HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR THIS SHOW TO MAKE IT WORK,CBS BLOCKED IT( IN MY OPINION) AT EVERY TURN.GOOD LUCK MOONLIGHT GOD BLESS.
That would be, without a doubt, the best news in a long, long time in television… Please, make it so!!
Be still my beating heart. If moonlight goes to the CW, me and 7,999,999 of my closest friends will follow! Keep fangs crossed…
CBS are fools for letting it go. Yes, there were clearly internal staffing problems on the production, but with better management those could be cleaned up over the summer. Here’s hoping CW’s smart enough to see they’ll be picking up a show with higher ratings than anything they currently run.
I am devastated, too, and I will follow Moonlight to whatever station is airing it. Crossing fingers for this to happen.
Where do you get your info ? Moonlight was not getting 8 million viewers – it was struggling to get 8 million viewers .
I like Moonlight but at least be accurate when reporting about its ratings ..
Hope it gets picked up by CW but Moonlight was hardly a ratings winner .
Wherever Moonlight goes, I will follow. Please CW, give it a chance. You won’t regret it.
Oh please please please please *BEGS* pllllllllllease let it be true!! There are a ton of devoted ML fans that will do anything to see this show (just read the posts above). I am crossing my fingers and toes that the CW will save the day and make all of us happy again!!!!
I will follow this show on whatever channel it is on.
I don’t care what network Moonlight goes as long as it has a second season.
shit! the people here in brazil are getting crazy! how it can happen? i mean, a gossip girl stay tuned with less audience and moonlight with higher one not? it just doesnt make any fucking sense… pleaseeeeeee! let moonlight go on!!
This is an interesting turn of events. I was wondering if someone would step up in the aftermath of the CBS announcement to scoop up the Moonlight viewing audience: rabid, loyal, and able to win the ML time slot on Friday nights. Looking at the CW schedule, it could use a boost and this would certainly help. Sundays may also give Moonlight a chance to take off running at a good pace. It will be interesting to see the numbers if this pans out.
I hope the CW picks up Moonlight. Considering 10 million fans voted it as the Peoples Choice Award Winner, it would be a worthwhile investment. I will follow the show wherever it goes.
Please, please, please let that happen!
Why wouldn’t CW jump at the chance for a show that gets 7-8 million viewers every week? And it is supposed to be cheap to produce, so I don’t see the downside.
Moonlight must not fade!
I hope the CW picks up the show! Thanks for the update Nikki! I really needed the boost.
I had a friend sending me DVD’s overnight when I was in the UK until they started showing it there. Now that I’m back in the U.S. CBS cancels it?
To see Moonlight, Alex and Jason I’d gladly endure Gossip Girl.
Moonlight could be a goldmine for sponsors with products to sell to women 18+ and the fans will follow Moonlight to any venue.
I hope CW does pick up Moonlight. It is the best show on tv with great chemistry between the actors, fantastic storylines and a loyal fan following. There are so many stories yet to be told with this show. PLEASE KEEP MOONLIGHT.
Gossip Girl still get’s better numbers in the main demo.
Moonlight will not fit on the CW, which is young and even some what urban.
Give it up.
PLEASE let this be true!! I will watch CW loyally if this happens! This show deserves so much more than CBS gave it! CW, take it on!!
Don’t these rumors more often than not turn out to be just that, rumors, smoke and mirrors…i mean back to you is being shopped around too…arrested development was shopped around…sports night was shopped around.
Maybe lifetime, or the we network should pick up moonlight based on the small random sample of the posters comments.
Please let this happen!!! PLEASE everyone, go to the cbs.com Moonlight board, find the phone number for Media Rights Capital, and CALL THEM!!
Moonlights overall avg was 7.86 million and that does not include the 7 day time shifted numbers’s. And it also does not inclue the same day dvr numbers for the 5th episode because they did not post that week. Moonlight usually averaged about 1 million time shifted viewers. So Moonlight got anywhere from 7.5 million on a low week and 9 million on a really good week when including the time shifted numbers. I think the CW would be very happy with those numbers.
OMG! Fingers and toes crossed! I’ll follow Moonlight anywhere it goes, whatever night they show it. It’s the only show I enjoy to the fullest. Love my MickBeth, and my Josef, cannot live without my weekly ‘fix’ of them!
Lea
The CW goes after teen age girls…and teenage girls like ‘bad boys’…moonlight is about a vampire whos supposedly sexy (I don’t see it) and has a ‘taboo’ relationship with a human…while fighting his vampire urges for the sake of helping the human race…sure he’s a bit older…but come on…doesn’t that sound familiar….just a bit…harkening back to when the CW made quality television (and was called the WB) that appealed to all demographics…i mean sure, it’s no joss whedon, it’s no tim minear or david greenwalt, it’s no mutant enemy writing staff…but a lot of those guys are out of work….hire one or two of em…and tweak the show and you’ve got a brand new angel.
For the sake of fulll disclosure, i saw every episode of buffy on first airing and one episode of angel (i somehow have never caught the ‘trip to europe’ episode that buffy was sort of in) and i was born in 1972 with ONE X chromosome and ONE Y chromosome
If any show deserves to be saved it’s Moonlight!!! Great fan base, Just love the actors. We can’t get enough of Jason, Alex and Sophia. Pleeeeese! Save Moonlight.
It would be great news. Of course the network who pick this show would already start with almost 8 million loyal viewers. Anyway I won’t get my hopes up yet , I don’t think I can’t take more horrible news. The last 24 hours have been a nightmare.By the way , thank you CBS for that!! Please CW pick Moonlight. Thanks Nikki.
Oh please, can you imagine the CW turning away 7+ million loyal viewers.
The world does not revolve around 16 year olds. You just think it does. Trust me I have one. And guess what, he likes Vampires and Moonlight.
Yeah CW–this would be a huge win for you!!
Lea, I know what you mean about Gossip Girl skewing younger in the demographics, but here’s why I’m left puzzled.
At 21 I had a lot of debt and no money. Now I have more than enough disposable income and I’m the sole decision-maker in my life. Season’s passes, merchandise, household goods etc…I do all the shopping and I get equal say in most decision-making processes. Advertisers should be begging me for my business, not the 18 year olds that have to ask mom for the iPhone.
Moonlight has fans of all ages. I’m not seeing a downside here, just win-win all around.
Since Moonlight was pulling in over seven million viewers a week for the last few weeks, winning not only its timeslot but the coveted 19-to-49 demo, I should think the CW would leap at the chance to snag those viewers. Shows like Moonlight are boutique series anyway–not likely to appeal to the mainstream but which tend to develop loyal and vocal followings. Putting one of those shows on CBS is like trying to turn Faberge into Wal-Mart. Lifetime or SciFi or CW would love to gain that many viewers in an established audience base. Why aren’t they lining up to buy this show?
This is the best show on TV!! Some intelligent network IS going to pick it up and have a “Buffy” on their hands with rights to a best selling franchise with millions of fanatic loyalists.
SAVE MOONLIGHT!!!
Re: Gossip Girl “winning the demo” – just barely. And, Gossip Girl had a huge advantage: it was shown on Wed. nights this season. Moonlight was on Friday nights at 9pm. The coveted “demographic” is out parting on Friday nights. Had GG been on during the same time slot it would not have had a 1.2/3. It probably would have had just as many, if not more, iTunes sales though.
CW! What rocket scientists you are! Bless you! Bless you! CBS is nuts. Their loss is your gain. You have a built-in following for this tried and true show. Give us our Moonlight! I’ll buy whatever the sponsors sell!
Caroline
You don’t necessarily represent the ‘average’ viewer of moonlight. I don’t know the numbers, I don’t work in the industry, but I know that CBS skews older in general on its shows, it doesn’t win the ‘18-49s’ when it wins nights (see thursday night semantic fights for ‘who is number 1′ vs CSI and GA)…so it’s great that you are a fan of moonlight but are you representative of the people who are viewing the show? Maybe maybe not.
Which leads to a bigger issue that just baffles me…through this entire technological revolution…why hasn’t ANYONE forced nielsen to get its act together and improve its technology…it’s just sad to me that they haven’t seemed to keep up with the technology…all that available data and they are still bassackwards and deciding what shows live or die.
And as for shows that ‘deserve’ to be saved, there are much better, more quality shows that get cacelled year after year than Moonlight, on every channel, INCLUDING CBS (anyone remembe American Gothic, a show where the town sherrif might have been the devil? HELLA better than moonlight and amazingly original)
I’m not a teenage girl, but I am a big Moonlight fan. This would be a great opportunity for the CW to expand its viewer base. I may be older, but I have disposable income to spend!
Here’s the number to call Media Rights Capital and tell them you want Moonlight. This is very important if you want the show renewed!
Call 310-786-1600
They have a Moonlight voice mail set up at CBS so call and protest the cancellation!
CBS:
212-975-3247
323-575-2345
323-651-0255
John, not all teenage girls like bad boys. Most don’t. Stereotype much?
Here is the question I keep asking myself…Moonlight won the People’s Choice Award for Best New Drama…HELLO that means the people voted and they liked it so how in the heck could CBS truly justify cancelling…man you must have to be really stupid to be a TV executive.
I don’t know the ins and outs, but I know that sci-fi has quite a bit in the pipeline as it were.
They’ve got another season of eureka coming, they are turning amanda tappings online series ’sanctuary’ into an ongoing, another season of Stargate Atlantis is coming, they like what the SJA and DR Who numbers are on friday night and there’s caprica coming.
Personally, I’d like to see Sci-Fi eliminate their entire ‘movie making’ budget since the sci-fi originals are terrible…and bring back two quality unfairly cancelled shows from their sister network over at USA….the 4400 and the deadzone, at least give the 4400 a mini series and a chance to tie up the loose ends.
TNT should also think about pursuing moonlight…i wonder if it would pair well with the closer and saving grace as the ‘8 pm’ show and give them a full 3 hour of programming.
Calm down carol
Dollhouse won’t even be buffy like…if fox gives it 6 episodes before canning it (after marketing it terribly like they did with Firefly) i’ll be surprised….but please, the only thing buffy and moonlight have in common is the fact that they are both sort of about vampires…but that’s it.
Oh please, let this be true.
Thanks for keeping us informed, Nikki.
I hope CBS loss is CW gain. I watch a few shows on CW anyway, I would be happy to give them my loyalty and forget CBS. I think they would be very happy with the response of fans that they will receive. Please save Moonlight!!! My Friday nights with my family will not be the same without MickBeth !!!
I am so pissed right now!!!!!
Gossip Girl originally aired on Wednesdays when there really wasn’t any real competition. Wasn’t too much on tv on Wednesdays. Now it’s on Mondays, let’s see how well it fairs with Heroes comes back on!
Moonlight aired on Friday nights where a lot of people were out partying for the weekend. To get 7 million + homebodies dedicated to watching your network on that particular night, CBS should be on their knees kissing our feet instead of slapping us in our faces with a bag of their feces!!!
Please…please let CW take Moonlight. This is an awesome show and deserves to be given the chance to continue to prove it.
please keep us posted. The CW would be very wise to pickup Moonlight with regular 8 million viewers in their backs
I would love for the CW to pick up Moonlight. I would follow it wherever it goes at any time and on any night. I somehow think the storylines and actors would feel much more at home on this network, too. I say give it a shot, CW! I know if Moonlight moves there I’ll be checking out the CW’s other shows a lot more closely, too!
As for ratings, Pamela, Moonlight scored over 8 million viewers for 6 out of the original 12 shows airing before the writers’ strike. It was closer to 8 million than 7 million on 4 of the remaining 6 episodes. That’s some pretty good numbers and the CW should be thrilled to gain all of these loyal fans.
God, please let it be true that CW will consider picking up MOONLIGHT. The show deserves a second chance with all the hard core, passionate followers.
@John – YSR on Dollhouse. Honestly I cannot imagine why Whedon keeps going back to that network. I would love to see him make a deal with someone more supportive of good work. Can you imagine what he’d be able to do with a show on a network like HBO? o.O
Please please please CW save our show. It won a People’s choice award I voted for it so many times, it is my favourite tv show! It still has amazing ratings and CBS was a fool to get rid of it! Please save it. you saved one tree hill now please do the same for Moonlight PLEASE please please please!!!!
Everyone, please read and spread the word: there is a number you can call to reach CBS and get put through to a moonlight message line. It’s 323-651-0255. I found a few boards about this on the imdb site. I just called even though it’s nearly 11 PM EST here and after about 10 rings A REAL LIVE PERSON PICKED UP, asked whether I was calling regarding moonlight and put me straight through to the comment line. Please call, and leave a message that includes your demographics, especially if you’re in that 18-35 demographic! Maybe it’s too late, but at least they are still taking calls!
and if not… I hope the CW takes note, it would be a great addition to the network. Pair it on the same night with Supernatural and you’ve got a winner night!
i hope that this is true for 2 reasons
1. because moonlight is an awsome show which i want to keep watching(if cbs needs the slot space then just get rid of all that reality crap, the point of tv is to get AWAY from reality & get into fantasy, also welcome to axe all the forensic shows EXCEPT NCIS)
2. i’ll finally have something to watch on sunday
this so better not be a trick, when i read that moonlight is axed, i wasn’t this pissed off since scifi axed the dresden files
i don’t care what network it’s on, as long as it is alive somewhere i’ll be watching. heck, i’d order it on pay-per-view just to get more Moonlight. Come CW!
I will follow Moonlight wherever it goes! I am in their targeted demographic! CW is where I’ll call home; just let ‘em pick up my beloved Moonlight!
I hope someone does decide to pick up this show. Do not care who it is I will be there. When are these people going to realise that we have reached a generation where lots of people don’t watch TV on TV? But Rather through i-tunes or TiVo ect etc. This is a very good show and I hope people give it a chance. It has decent ratings considering it was on a Friday!
It won a people’s choice award for crying out loud! That means we like it and watch it. Please give Moonlight a chance.
oh please let this be true i just love moonlight i think it will be grate on the cw most of the shows i watch are on the cw anyway i only watch cbs for moonlight