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Wonderfalls Seeks a New Home.

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UPDATED: Tuesday, April 6, 2004 21:28
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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:49 PM

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - It's not an everyday occurrence for shows to find success after changing networks, but it does happen. "JAG" left NBC after one season in 1995-'96 and moved to CBS, where it airs to this day.
After a rocky run at FOX, the comedy "Grounded for Life" has found favor with The WB, as did "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," which jumped to the Frog for three seasons after four on ABC.

Now, "Wonderfalls" hopes it can capture some of that magic. Axed by FOX after airing four original episodes (three on Friday, one last Thursday), the 20th Century Fox Television series from executive producers Bryan Fuller, Todd Holland and Tim Minear is taking its already completed 13 episodes and looking for a new home.

In particular, Fuller has set his sights on weblets The WB and UPN.
"I think the show would make a great companion piece with 'Smallville' on The WB," he says, "and it would also make a great companion piece with 'America's Next Top Model' on UPN.

"It's a critically acclaimed drama. We don't have a lot of that on television right now, so we're hoping we can find a home on another network that will appreciate the show."

Caroline Dhavernas stars in "Wonderfalls" as Jaye Tyler, a twentysomething slacker who works in a Niagara Falls gift shop. She takes her first step into a larger world when animal figurines start giving her cryptic instructions, each of which leads to surprising and unexpected results for Jaye, her friends, family and complete strangers.

While Fuller believes that there was a lack of support for "Wonderfalls" in the upper echelons of FOX and its parent company, News Corp., FOX Broadcasting corporate communications v.p. Scott Grogin asserts, "The decision was entirely Gail Berman's. She is the entertainment president for the network, and the decision was entirely hers."

No doubt influencing Berman's decision was the poor performance of "Wonderfalls" on both Friday -- where it drew an average of 3.8 million viewers -- and Thursday, where an original episode on April 1 (originally scheduled to air Friday, April 2) couldn't even match the Friday numbers against new installments of CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and NBC's "The Apprentice."

"It didn't help that TV Guide listed the show as Friday at 9 when it had been moved to Thursday," Fuller adds. "There were a lot of contributing factors that didn't help us."

Although the show had a great deal of critical support, Fuller feels part of the reason for its lackluster showing lay in FOX's marketing strategy.

"This is an edgy romantic comedy," he says, "with a lot of rambunctious humor. That will find an audience, if the audience knows those are the elements in the show. Our audience was always very confused as to what the show was. They were marketing it as 'Felicity' in the beginning, because that's what they wanted it to be, and it's not."

Vowing to continue until "I've been told 'no' by all the networks," Fuller makes his pitch for the show's remaining unaired nine episodes.

"The episode that would have been next week kicks off all the franchise-y, arc-y stuff for the series," he says, "whereas the episodes we've aired to so far have been establishing the scenario.

"The next episode, 'Crime Dog,' kicks it off in a big way. We have Jaye's brother, who learns that she's a little bit crazy, and it starts his arc of becoming the first apostle. We have all sorts of nitty-gritty juiciness with Sharon, the lesbian Republican lawyer sister. We're hoping the tone and scope of these episodes will have a lot of promise for another network and be a tasty little treat to tempt them into picking us up.

"Any of those networks that wants to see those future episodes, just have them drop me a line, and I will send them a DVD or two."

Fuller also reminds his fans (and potential buyers), "The important thing is, we're not dead, we're in ICU."

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|87353|1|,00.html

Sign the petition to show your support for Wonderfalls.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wonderfalls

Also visit the official Wonderfalls board if you want to do more.

http://forums.prospero.com/foxwonderfalls

And to download the four episodes aired follow the link below.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=4598

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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 6:04 PM

LINDLEY

Just give us the addresses, and we'll start the mail.....

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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 6:18 PM

SUCCATASH

Uh, so does this mean that Angel and Wonderfalls are competing for a new home? What if WB is reconsidering another season of Angel due to all the fan protesting, but a Wonderfalls offer makes them change their mind?

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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 6:20 PM

LINDLEY

That would be unfortunate, but I think the probability of that happening is low enough that this is still a good thing overall.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 9:28 PM

OUTLANDER

You asked for it.

http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=foxwonderfalls&msg=
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Kristin from E! hints at UPN & the WB possibly being approached to pick up WF!!! She suggests that we write to the presidents of both the networks to show our support. Here's the article:

"As some of you may have heard, it's a sad day for quality television--Wonderfalls has been canceled. After last week's rant about the state of television, I, for one, am not taking this lying down, and I hope you aren't either. So, it's time to start our very own "Save Wonderfalls" campaign. The show is being pitched to the WB and UPN, so they desperately need our support! I'd love to hear your ideas about all the marvelous things we can do to help save this show (email me at tvdiva@eonline.com), but for now, please sign this petition- http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wonderfalls - (more than 3,000 have already), and send the folks at UPN your "Save Wonderfalls" letters and tchotchkes (little animal whoseywhatsits--whatever you can spare!):

Dawn Ostroff
President, UPN
1800 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Jordan Levin
CEO, Warner Bros. Network
4000 Warner Blvd., Building 34R
Burbank, CA 91522"

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here's the other contact info i've found:
WB: Jordan Levin, president, WB Entertainment, 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 34R, Burbank, CA 91522. Network Web site: www.thewb.com. Feedback e-mail: faces@thewb.com. Phone number: 818-977-5000.

UPN: Dawn Ostroff, president, UPN Entertainment, 11800 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025. Network Web site: www.upn.com. Currently no viewer feedback e-mail address. Phone number: 310-575-7123.

http://www.wonderfallstv.net/news.php?view=news&newsid=31

Wonderfalls needs your help!
Posted by Lisa on 2004-04-06 14:23:54

Thanks to FaithFan for posting this information on our message boards...

Wonderfalls needs your help!

Fox has unfairly canceled Wonderfalls only after 3 episodes. Right now the focus of the campaign is to show support for the show for 20th Century Fox to release all 13 episodes on DVD and also to target Fox to protest the cancellation.

1) Contact 20th Century Fox and Regency TV (the companies that makes Wonderfalls).
Send postcards 20th and Regency. We need their continued to support for Wonderfalls to get a DVD release or a possible move to another network:

Mr. Gary Newman and Ms. Dana Walden (Co-Presidents)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
10201 West Pico Blvd
Building 88, Room 29
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-369-5962
Fax: 310-369-8726

20th Century put Family Guy back into production after canceling it and has had great success with the Firefly DVD. So there is hope that they will see Wonderfalls as another short-lived show with the potential to live on.

Regency Enterprises
10201 W. Pico Blvd., Bldg. 12
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-369-8300
Fax: 310-969-0470

2) Contact Fox Broadcasting to protest the cancellation.
There might not be a lot of hope that Fox will put Wonderfalls back on, but maybe they'll run the unaired episodes. The bigger point of contacting them is to fight for quality tv. Fox has canceled far too many shows too quickly without giving them a fair chance.

Email Ask Fox at askfox@foxinc.com and tell them you want Wonderfalls to stay on the air. Let them know your demographics (age and gender).

Write to Fox - Let Fox Broadcasting president Gail Berman know you disapprove of her decision to cancel Wonderfalls. You should include your demographics (age and gender).

Gail Berman
Fox Broadcasting
Building 100 Room 4450
10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035

Call Gail Berman - Leave Gail Berman a POLITE voice mail message. The number for Fox is 1-800-369-6848. To reach Gail Berman's office, dial option 2, then 237626#. (If it's full, please try back later)

Wonderfalls Postcards

Post on the Official Wonderfalls Forum - protest the cancellation there. If it's taken down, go to the Fox Forum.

http://forums.prospero.com/foxwonderfalls/start

3) Contact the Media
Email online tv columnists - Let online tv columnists know you love the show and are upset about the cancellation.

Amy AKA TV Gal at Zap2it.com: amytvgal@zap2it.com

Kristin at E! Online: tvdiva@eonline.com or submit questions for her weekly chat at: http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristin/Ask/index.html

Matt Roush at TV Guide: http://www.tvguide.com/tv/roush/askmatt/

4) Sign the Wonderfalls Petitions

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wonderfalls

Request the Wonderfalls DVD on TVShowsOnDVD.com
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/showinfo.cfm?showID=7689

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