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Media Rights Capital, and everyone else, passed on Moonlight for mid-season. The show is dead. Moonlight fans will be singing outside Warner Bros today at noon and again on Friday by the big main gate at 4000 Warner Blvd near Pass street. I’m not sure why but they will be singing.
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Are they dumb or what!! They would have had a 7-8 millions viewers with Moonlight… it’s more than anything they will ever had!! Geez I really don’t understand some times!
Never say never, Nikki…
Thank you Nikki for the updates. I really appreciate it.
I think it is high time everyone calms down, accept the fact our show is gone, thank everyone involved with it and enjoy the finale. Better finish it all on a high note than wallow in bitterness and anger.
Whats wron with all these people? 8 millions audience dont matter??
Time for the torchbearing mob.
A Fan from germany
It is a sad state of affairs when a magical show like Moonlight is snuffed out. Mick St. John will live on in our hearts. Moonlight brought such joy to so many. It is a sad, sad day, indeed.
Finally. Can we get back to the stuff actually happening in Hollywood now?
What about the Scifi and USA channels? I doubt the show had been shopped to them. Such poor business practices. The net execs need to go to business school. So pathetic.
All great shows die young
So- who is the dramaQUEEN? or is it dramaKING?
There must be someone terribly difficult to work with –
Or someone who is asking too much money just weeks after a writers strike.
It is not the show. Something behind the scenes must be making it unpalatable.
Yeah, I figured as much. It makes me sad, but life goes on. At least we got 16 episodes and we got to know some great characters. Thanks Nikki.
“So what’s the over/under on the number of hysterical, near-suicidal posts from angry teens and maladjusted older women on this topic?”
I’m going with 150. And nearly three-fourths will mention “7 MILLION VIEWERS!!!!111!!!”. The freakouts have been the most entertaining thing I’ve read on the net in a while.
OPEN LETTER TO
PETER ROTH,
President, Warner Brothers Television
Dear Mr. Roth,
Please confab with your coworkers in the WBHV department regarding Warner Premiere, Warner’s currently experimental direct-to-DVD label. WP has so far released a Babylon 5 movie, a Dukes of Hazzard movie prequel (however questionable in taste that one might have been) and two animated projects featuring DC’s superhero line (Superman/Doomsday and the excellent Justice League: The New Frontier).
Now’s the time to take the experiment to the next level and experiment with a direct-to-DVD series that continues a cult classic in an genre that does well in the DVD market as it is. Such as Moonlight. Say, two episodes per disc, released monthly (but filmed in the regular TV season cycle) at the typical SRP for a retail movie, $29.99 per disc (and therefore, like, $19.99 at Best Buy, Target and other major outlets.) Add commentary tracks, blooper reels, deleted scenes, episode transcripts. Make it a geektastic package. Heck, kick it off with a fully-loaded season 1 boxed set and the first two-episode disc of s2.
Quite a number of us film and TV geeks already know that smaller-budget movies that cost more than the approximately $5 million (plus or minus) that two episodes of Moonlight cost go direct-to-DVD all the time. Yes, they’re often bombs at the box office or they’re bigger-budget indies that weren’t able to find big screen distribution, but that’s entirely beside the point. Moonlight has a fanbase that IMO would support direct-to-DVD serialization without any sacrifice in budget. Heck, the first Harold & Kumar cost 2-4 times the budget of 2 episodes of Moonlight and didn’t become a cult classic until it reached DVD (and even then, it built slowly.)
Plus, you’d obviously have the ancillary rights such as transmission on VOD, then cable rights, new media downloads (where Moonlight does extremely well) and then the inevitable DVD boxed sets, which we’d surely (or Shirley) would buy again. As geeks, we’re not just fetishists for Vampires, we’re fetishists for
Sophia Myles Alex O’Louglinactors we like, shows we like and, most of all, our DVD collections. We happily enjoy being exploited by you guys when we actually like the product.A direct-to-DVD serialization plan does have something of a precedent in the serialization of the sci-fi series Farscape on DVD by the small label ADV (mostly known for Anime). The first season of Farscape, while originally aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, was released at 2 episodes per disc on a monthly basis during the second season of the series. This campaign brought in new viewers (including myself) and was IMO directly responsible for the series lasting for four years and a concluding miniseries.
Direct-to DVD serialization clearly has precedent and value that so far has yet to be exploited on the scale that it could be exploited. And the way that broadcast series are headed, direct-to-DVD is going to be bigger than broadcast anyway, so I urge you to start the trend now with your deserving series.
Thanks for your consideration in advance,
Rob Jensen
Central Missouri
Self-Serving PPS: A direct-to-DVD reunion movie or direct-to-DVD 6-hour miniseries (same monthly 2 episodes per disc plan) to complete the Gilmore Girls story would be, like, totally rad, too.
Gee, Nikki, your sympathy for our plight touches my undead heart!
And if you think this update is gonna make us stop campaigning for a new home for Moonlight, then you sorely underestimate us.
To ‘total eclipse’ – if Jericho fans had the same attitude as yours, they wouldn’t even have received the extra 7 episodes they got this season. Just because you don’t care enough to fight, doesn’t mean we all have to bow down and accept the will of CBS!
Finally to ‘Can’t Take Anymore’ – who’s suicidal? We’re gearing up for WAR! lol Oh and just for the record, I’m neither a maladjusted teen, nor an older woman!
Enough is enough; time to let it go.
Nikki can we get back to the Hollywood news please, it seems this site has been hijacked with this Moonlight business.
Crap! I don’t understand the business angle of turning down 7-8 million viewers for a network that can’t even garner half of that for their best current hit show. How does that make any sort of sense?
“Can’t Take it Anymore”
All your comments are angry hateful posts that contribute nothing.
If you “can’t take it anymore,” then go away and spread your poison elsewhere. We’re all sick of your comments.
Time to start mailing random crap to studios again…
According to sources on the Moonlight forums, this is NOT true!! Don’t panic.
I don’t understand – why shouldn’t the fans try to get back the show if they want?? If that’s what they want to do, let them –
LOL@the singing…
People are really dumb if they don’t revive Moonlight! It is the best new show out there right now. I am going to cry because I will never be able to see Mick St.John again. Stupid networks.
Helen – If you don’t want to read about Moonlight, there’s really a simple answer; don’t click on links to articles with ‘Moonlight’ in the title!
Your words and total lack of respect for Moonlight Fans only incite us more to work harder and fight harder to save Moonlight. We will not give up and we won’t back down. Here is a little bit of advice to you quit trying to stop us, if we want to work to save Moonlight that is our god given right to do so. Who are you tell us any different.
The show’s a cheap ripoff of “FOREVER KNIGHT”.
Get over it & buy the DVD’s.
BTW, CBS’s highest rated series, CSI, garners an average of 15 million viewers a week, not 3.5-4 million, as opined by the genius who said “Crap! I don’t understand the business angle of turning down 7-8 million viewers for a network that can’t even garner half of that for their best current hit show. How does that make any sort of sense?”
You don’t make any sense, dear.
Take your fake vampire teeth and log back on to WOW.
PS: Remember Jericho?
http://moonlight-crusade.com
It ain’t over till it’s over.
Follow the link to see how you can help push for a second season!
I so not understand this SHIT! ML has so high ratings and nobody wants to take it. Fine! I know I’ll never again watch a series with less than two seasons! Had enough of that by now!