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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!
If you don’t have a Nielsen box your opinion just does not count. They stated that Moonlight did not hold onto Ghost Whisperer’s numbers. By that logic any show that does not hold onto the numbers of the show before it should be cancelled. I think it is all BS. None of it makes sense. Someone out there is working to kill this show or someone associated with it (none of the cast)is impossible to work with..either a total jerk or wanting outlandish amounts of cash.
Nikki: Demographics here: 50+ professional woman
Moonlight fans LOVE this show! I, myself, wonder how I got so hooked! Moonlight seems magical to me and I am willing to ask (even beg) other venues to pick it up. Remember, it’s not over until the fat vampire sings…
Haven’t you ever been passionate about something or someone? We are a passionate group!
“And nearly three-fourths will mention ‘7 MILLION VIEWERS!!!!111!!!’.”
LOL!
The remaining 1/4 will mention the People’s Choice Awards not realizing that it is probably the least credible argument that can be made.
I wonder which Moonlight blog sent its dozen readers to post at DHD repeatedly.
Posted by ‘e’ – “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.”
Actually, Genius, (yeah, right) she was referring to CW *supposedly* turning down Moonlight. (GMC may have but CW itself hasn’t). Gossip Girls is the show that averages 3.5-4 million – if that! Does it make a bit more sense now?
Thanks for the update, Nikki.
I hope that the Moonlighters won’t give up that easily, even if it’s just to show support to the show & crew.
To those people making fun of the fans.. well, have you ever felt such passion for anything?
I hope, for everyone, his/her favorite show will never cancelled after only one season!
So, please let Moonlight fans their opinion! And when you don’t like the show, avoid News with “Moonlight” in it. Or is it fun for you, when you run in such news and say “Be quiet people, we know it!”?
Well, that’s my opinion.
Harold – I don’t know how credible the People’s Choice Awards are, but the key word here is “People”, aka fans, viewers, the ones without whom the networks wouldn’t be in business in the first place. Our opinion should count for something in the network’s decision making process – even those of us without a Nielsen Box.
“e”
I don’t have a dog in this, but why are you so venomous over people liking a tv show.
And the other commenter is not your “dear”
Don’t count “Moonlight” out just yet. There are many people working very hard to get the show picked up somewhere for a second season. The people singing at WB are doing so because they believe what we all do – that “Moonlight” got a raw deal from CBS and needs to find a network that will welcome it and its 8 million or so loyal, money-spending fans. Wait ’til next week, when there are a couple hundred of us in LA for MoonlightCon 2008!
“Wait ’til next week, when there are a couple hundred of us in LA for MoonlightCon 2008!”
I’m sure that’ll be a (sad) sight to see…
“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.”
Well, four people can always do ‘Barbershop.’
Know that not only people from the US are angry about this.
We cannot go and sing in WB, but we’ll do as much as possible from where we are!!
Tv shows need watcher to exist. let’s go and show them how many we are.
good luck!
a fan from Argentina
I don’t understand the misdirected hate ppl seem to have to others who are doing nothing to them.
What do it matter to you if ppl want to rally for their show? How is it affecting you? did a Moonlight fan come by your house and blast the Moonlight soundtrack on your front lawn from a blaring boombox at 2 in the morning?
Did a Moonligth fan personally email YOU with pleas and threats?
I guess it’s just some people nature to want to hate victims.
Yeah, I said it, What?
CBS made a mistake and so did CW. This is the very reason why television is boring. 9000 CSI, 8000 Law and Orders, 50 million crime dramas, as if they aren’t all recycling the same crap. 30 million law dramas all featuring the same kind of cases. 101 billion lame comedies that really don’t stand out.
The only shows good shows on tv were Moonlight, blood ties and ARE supernatureal, reaper, nip/tuck on occassion smallville. Also the damn Simpsons! oh and Family guy.
“They would have had a 7-8 millions viewers with Moonlight… it’s more than anything they will ever had!!”
Totally uninformed comment. Moonlight was actually drawing a good 2-3 million (or more) fewer viewers than the also-cancelled Close to Home did last year in the exact same timeslot, also on CBS. And CBS just cancelled shows with substantially higher ratings than Moonlight (Shark, for instance). Moonlight drew fairly bad numbers and was among the LOWEST rated shows on the network. Hardly “more than anything they will ever had” (LOL).
Comment by Vinnie Vegas — May 16, 2008 @ 4:25 pm about Moonlight fans singing outside Warner Bros:
“Well, four people can always do ‘Barbershop.’”
Ha! They didn’t even have enough for that. They had three people on Thursday.
As in 1, 2, 3. Of the “seven million passionate viewers” they claim, only three in L.A. participated in their event at Warner’s.
Three! LOL!
Unfortunately, the same nincompoops who cancelled Moonlight on CBS are the same douches calling the shots for The CW. Yes, it would’ve been the CW’s highest-rated show BY A WIDE MARGIN. Why was Dawn so attracted to an already-dead 7th Heaven’s finale audience of 7-mil, but couldn’t support an up-and-coming (and People’s Choice award-winning) series which averaged nearly 8-mil PER WEEK?? Mind-boggling.
Why does she have a job, exactly?
“I guess it’s just some people nature to want to hate victims.”
LMAO, you people have truly become delusional! You dare to call yourselves victims? A network cancelling a show you liked does not in any way compare to people who have been subject to some true hardships in life, and quite frankly it’s insulting to label yourselves that way.
They’re tearing down the sets on Tuesday. The show’s done, it wasn’t that great, Joel Silver’s got a lot more crap to worry about than this DEAD SHOW, deal with it!
why would they do this finally a a show 8 mil viewers like and also not a reality show…hope they bring this back…seriously
8 million people is a lots of people. and this is probably why cw cannot get a regular audience to watch. you start liking something and there they go cancelling it if it does not work for a second… by principle waiting …is a good virtue
“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.”
It’s time for me to do a little singing of my own:
na na na na
na na na na
hey hey hey
GOODBYE
Interesting non-support Moonlight article you have here. Reading the comments almost got me upset….but TRUE Moonlight fans came to the rescue and set the record straight. Moonlight is NOT just a show that got canceled….it is a force to be reckoned with. We will NOT fade away and we will NOT go quietly into the night…..because the night BELONGS TO MOONLIGHT!
Shocking. This show was nothing more than a poor attempt to copy Angel.
Ok, enough. I’m tired of reading through this and seeing people claim that Moonlight is a copy of *Blank* show, so I’m going to adress a couple of them:
Forever Knight: I watched this show on summertime reruns years ago. I like it, it was decent, but not amazing. It’s cheesy and very fake looking, and NOT AT ALL like Moonlight. As someone who has seen both shows, I know that I for one, hadn’t even seen a comparison until i read someone point it out. The vampire lore is completely different from Forever Knight to Moonlight. Moonlight has better characters, plots, and overall composition. Forever Knight fans, it’s one thing to reccommend the show to Moonlight fans, it’s another to try and shove it down their throats. Try a different approach.
Angel: Hmm, I’m not even sure how to begin this one. How on Earth can anyone even begin to think that Moonlight was copying Angel??! I never saw Mick take on demons, I never saw Mick run an evil law firm. I never saw Angel walk around in the sun (without any spells, or special rings, or stripped vampire status.) I never saw Angel do much actual investigation himself, his team did most of it (which btw Mick didn’t have a ‘team’, so there’s another difference.) I never saw Angel working hand-in-hand with a reporter.
Like it or not, Moonlight was unique. Quit trying to accuse it of copying other shows, because it wasnt.
“Like it or not, Moonlight was unique.”
Awful in it’s own “unique” way, I agree. And thanks for outlining how superior those other shows were to this travesty.
I have just discovered that there is not going to be another series of Moonlight. I am really disappointed as I look forward to the weekly episode. Surely there is some company who will pick up the reins and continue this series?
Unreal. I have 4 shows I watch and this was one of them.
LOST
Moonlight
Law and Order :SVU
House
I loved this show for the fantasy, action and the love between the two charectors was great!
I am sick of stupid reality TV. To much time is wated on that stupid stuff.
Moonlight was different and fun and I hope another station picks it up. It did not even get a fair shot with the stupid strike lasting as long as it did.
This is sad news to all 8 million fans of moonlight. Some say that the next to go is ghost whisperer. These two shows made everyones friday night. CBS and all other networks that passed the show will be sorry they did. And where do go from now? watching what replaced moonlight…the mentalist? i will never watch that show ever. I hope they are pulled as well. But for now, I’ll watch Mick st. john in movies i guess. And here’s to the fans of moonlight who petitoned and complained and did all they could good job but i wish it was good enough for CBS. I’ll always be a moonlight fan.
Thanks everyone for trying.