Save Farscape Update

I just noticed that one of the banner ads showing up at the top of this blog is for Farscape. How cool is that? And, nope, I'm not the one who put it there!

This makes me realize that I haven't said much of anything about the state of the Save Farscape fan campaign here for a while... Funny, there was a period when you couldn't get me to shut up about it. The good news is, the campaign is still going strong, as aforementioned banner ad can attest. The actors and writers are all on record as saying they'd love to come back and do the show if, somehow, they were allowed to continue it, and while the sets have been dismantled, they can all be rebuilt with no difficulty if the series were to be picked up. The bad news is, the ratings haven't quite been up where we'd hoped they would be. The goal was to shoot for a 2.0 rating. Instead, the show's consistently been making 1.0-1.3 ratings, which is, well, about where it was before. Which still means that it's one of the higher rated shows on Sci-Fi, but also that it's trailing behind Stargate. (Sigh. Stupid Nielsen-box people really just don't know what they're missing...)

Here's some things that the fans have been up to lately:

Plans are being made for another TV commercial. This will be a text-only ad that would air on the Sci-Fi Channel (!) during the final episode of the season, informing viewers that the show has been cancelled, and directing them to the website for more information.

A Farscape fan with a sydicated newspaper strip (or can you call it a "strip" if it's only one panel?) ran this Save Farscape-themed comic in national newspapers. (Check out some of the previous comics, too, while you're there. They're pretty cool.)

This story gave me a huge chuckle: a fan sent a singing telegram to the Sci-Fi Channel on Valentine's Day. Reportedly, it got a huge chuckle out of the people there, too. Nice to know that somebody at that network has a sense of humor! I gotta quote the lyrics to the telegram, here, 'cause they're just adorable:

[To "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"]
(Give us)
One more season of Farscape!
One more year out in space!
Give John a chance to get Aeryn back.
And make a plan when the Scarrans attack!
If the crew gets caught by the bad guys,
They’ll need a chance to escape…
Give romance
a chance
with season five…
Give us more Farscape!

Ah, you just can't put it any better than that...

For the record, Farscape is currently airing Fridays at 8 PM and midnight Eastern/Pacific time (that's 6 and 10 PM here in the Mountain Time Zone where I am) on the Sci-Fi Channel. And you want to watch it. Trust me, you do.