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Several of us have had the same idea about a real concerted effort involving every 4400 fan GLOBALLY. So everyone let stand up and really be counted then if we have done our best to 'SAVE THE 4400" we never have to live with ifs and maybes.
I hope this is OK I've never done anything like this before but I feel a very deep passion for this show and had to do something to ward off my own ifs and maybes. Anyone with more experience with this kind of thing is truly welcome. I'm more a follower than a leader if you know what I mean.
We tried sunflower seeds, we tried letters so far USA has ignorred us. We have a major DVD effort in the works (fingers crossed everyone). What is definte to date is we have BOOKS coming thanks to CBS Paramount. I think if everyone buys the "4400" books we will not be ignorred!
Here's the list:
1. The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy (Tie-In Book) by Greg Cox OUT NOW IN BOOKSTORES
2. The 4400: Wetwork (Tie-In Book) by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore UPCOMING OCT 28, 2008
3. Season 5 Book (No title yet) by Greg Cox UPCOMING
4. Season 5 Book (No title yet) by David Mack UPCOMING
Whether we get more be it books and/or TV depends on us. No one of us can do this alone. Making money is the major motivator for these Companies.
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Hi Bubba here, I'm like you June, I don't have enough experience in doing this but, I did ran across a couple of ideas that sounds like we sound try ...
QUOTE (amerirish @ Dec 20 2007, 05:23 PM)
Many fans have stated on the boards that they have been sending letters asking for a renewal and some even including sunflower seeds to USA over the last couple of months (I've sent letters and included a print out of our Petition thread most of the time). But I have a suggestion now that we have official news (horrible, rotten, disgusting news!) I think that a good idea may be to set a date and have ALL fans send a letter at the same time. Another poster earlier (bahmo, I think) that a running faucet is better than a dripping one, or something like that.
Let's pick a date, or several, in January and start mailing our letters in all at once. I think the effort is at least worth a stamp. What does everyone think?
BTW, the fact that sooo many new people have signed up here recently is also extremely encouraging to me.
QUOTE (Megan3375 @ Dec 20 2007, 06:25 PM)
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Here is the address. We need a way to make sur everyone is going to send a letter on Jan 2 I can gaurantee that I will, But with all of the new additions to the board and all the members that have been mia for a while... I think the name of this thread should get peoples attention but maybe we need to have some sort of pact thread were people will drop there names there if they are going to participate in the letter campaign! I really hope we can get everyone behind this movement and they get bombarded with our letters!
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It seems another on the board believes letters won't make a drastic enough impact and truthfully I've been thinking along thhe same line. But tons of sunflower seeds might so we need everyone on the same page in this. I willing to send seeds on Jan 2.
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Yeah June I don't think that letters alone will make a big enough impact... On my quote in Bubba's post i kept saying letters but I was implying letters and seeds... When we first heard news of the possible cancellation back in aug or sept we started the seed idea and I went and bought a pound of seeds but to be honest I never got around to sending them so I still have them. I will DEFINATELY send them this time on JAN 2!!!! Everyone remember that day.
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I'm with you guys to send seeds but does anyone have the address that might have an impact....or maybe several addresses? There have been several added to several threads but what address should we use? I'm on board with the idea.
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If anyone can make icons, banners anything we can use the spread the word please do so.
I'm trying to get a website up as well, and I was thinking of making a MySpace/Facebook account also.
Any more ideas let me know and I'll sign up to those as well
I just joined this forum today and I think if a lot of people who've stayed quiet in the past but genuinely want to help the show they should speak now.
If anyone can make icons, banners anything we can use the spread the word please do so.
I'm trying to get a website up as well, and I was thinking of making a MySpace/Facebook account also.
Any more ideas let me know and I'll sign up to those as well
I just joined this forum today and I think if a lot of people who've stayed quiet in the past but genuinely want to help the show they should speak now.
This is fantastic Ellie!! Thank you so much for being so helpful & enthusiastic! I hope everyone gets on board with this idea. I believe our only real shot is to have tons of fans speak up.
Even if you don't want to send sunflower seeds, please at least send a letter. We need volume to get our message across.
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QUOTE (amerirish @ Dec 21 2007, 04:57 PM)
This is fantastic Ellie!! Thank you so much for being so helpful & enthusiastic! I hope everyone gets on board with this idea. I believe our only real shot is to have tons of fans speak up.
Even if you don't want to send sunflower seeds, please at least send a letter. We need volume to get our message across.
Thanks Everyone!
Thanks, I only found out today about the cancellation and I am absolutely gutted.
Things CAN happen (Jericho & Roswell), we just need to all do what we can to help.
We need to be all together on that "BE POSITIVE" campaign !
The video is perfect, I was going to ask if anyone could do one to put on the sites!!
Also I've now set up a MySpace and I've sent a request to 'friend' some of the cast who have their own MySpace pages and hopefully they might even send some seeds!!! Fingers crossed.
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Hey! I think this is a great idea. I'm in! It might also be helpful to print out the petition and mail it in with the letter and seeds during that week!
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QUOTE (Margg @ Dec 21 2007, 01:44 PM)
Hey! I think this is a great idea. I'm in! It might also be helpful to print out the petition and mail it in with the letter and seeds during that week!
I totally agree and was planning on doing the same. In my previous letters for the last couple of months (asking for a renewal) I would periodically print out the petition and include it in the envelope.
Another poster (EasyMac, I think) also came up with this image. I would print it on the bottom corner of my letters:
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great idea, but about the date send it that day or send it now so that it arrives then coz for me it willl be impossible ,the mail from france and french territories takes forever to get there up to 2weeks sometimes , i hav e a friend in florida and everytime i'm like u havent gotten my letter yet? anyway i have the adresss and will print tons of my posts her on the forum and let them know "why are u trying to break my achy breaky heart" lol!
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I think we are all going to mail on the 2nd. Figure it this way: the US letters will probably arrive on the 3rd or 4th, then the overseas letters will arrive all at once too.
Personally, I'm sticking with the letter-a-day for a week idea so its no problem. All that matters is that you write a letter to make them hear your voice!
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QUOTE (amerirish @ Dec 21 2007, 07:40 PM)
I think we are all going to mail on the 2nd. Figure it this way: the US letters will probably arrive on the 3rd or 4th, then the overseas letters will arrive all at once too.
Personally, I'm sticking with the letter-a-day for a week idea so its no problem. All that matters is that you write a letter to make them hear your voice!
I agree, I think it is best to aim for a specific date otherwise it might not make as much impact, like you said the letters from the US take a few days, usually from the UK it takes 5-7 days and say 14 days for all the other countries, it'll keep the momentum going for a while.
And I think the one-a-day for a week is best as well.
I've just been reading about Journeyman (which was also cancelled) and the fans are doing their own campaign as well to the same place we have to send ours, so we need to make sure we make an impact, we don't want it overshadowed!!
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It is great to see that people doing everything possible to help the show continue in the air, i love the show and i will also o my part to help out. In retrospect it is pretty pathetic how the USA Network let the show die like this, i don't know about you but i before 3 months ago, i had never even heard about the 4400, heck, i found out about it when i left the country in vacation, since then i have bought the 3 seasons in dvd and watched them and thanks to the magic of the DVR i've gotten to see all of season 4, regardless of this, i feel that the cancellation was uncalled for, specially since they don't seem to advertise any other show outside of Monk and Psych, LOL, in all honesty i don't even know about any other original show the network has. Anyways I will be hear doing my part in all the necessary efforts to help the 4400 get another season.
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UPDATED! Letter/Seeds Revolution Ignorred! Major Books Sales Won't Be!!!!, We Need Every Single Fan World-Wide Participation!!!
Dec 20 2007, 09:01 PM
We need everyone to get behind this.
I hope we can manage this!
