Listen people, if you are reading this page it means that you love The 4400 more than just the average television show. There have been attempts, in the past, to get the fools at NBC (Bonnie Hammer) to get Tom Baldwin and the crew back on the air. They have not been successful. But we should not give up. Friday Night Lights (another great show) was going to get the ax from Bonnie Hammer and NBC after it's second season, but thankfully DirecTV stepped in and joined into a cost-sharing partnership with NBC. The 3rd season of FNL aired on DirecTV before being shown on NBC, and may get picked up for a 4th. My question is: Why not The 4400? Let's send some emails and make some phone calls to DirecTV and let them know that if they were to help in bringing back The 4400 we would gladly become their customers, if we were not already. Please help bring the best show on TV back to TV.

Thank You,
Robert Doyle

I'm all up for another letter campaign - just give me an address and a message.

Hey, maybe is all of us buy the series on DVD the execs can see the popularity of the show and bring it back. Hey, it happened with Family Guy!

how can i help to bring back the serie????

Hey if you get a email / petition together Ill sign it. Ill even hand deliver it to Direct tv or NBC / USA offices in NYC.

Heck if 4400 comes back Ill switch my cable service to direct tv.

I go away and come back and nothing has changed. Help me out. Has there been anything constructive done in the last 6 months to move this effort along? I came back to the forum to see if there has been anything done to create change or and effort to get this thing going. Sounds like nothing has changed. Or did the book come out and everyone forgot about the show. O joy!!! Hey I know, maybe we can get Obama to give us some stimulus money to restart the show!!!! Sorry for that, I just had to. I never voted for him.

Ok we aren't made of money.. we cant restart the show...but something we can do is this.

I bought season 1 at Amoeba and Rasputin ( a buy sell trade cd/dvd store) for 5.95 each and I bought them all and handed them out to friends and family. (you can also purchase season 1 at amazon for cheap) I got at least a dozen people hooked! They passed on the miniseries to their friends and went out and bought the complete series. So far... and this is not that accurate but 16 people of my friends family and some of their friends have bought the series now... due to me spending a couple bucks to get them hooked and then they got their friends hooked!

Even if you cant afford that... invite some friends over and play the pilot... they will probably want to borrow season 1 after that. Which will mean a bigger following, and more people to write letters and send seeds!

Spread the Word as Jordan would say

I will be honest...I never watched the show when it was on USA. I didnt have cable then... but Nielsen's is a flawed system and I know dozens of good shows have been cancelled because of it!

Get people to Buy the dvds and USA cant deny those sales!

Hi Robert,

I agree. I think that the 4400 should be able to live on. Unfortunately NBC was supporting two shows with similar plots and content. The 4400 was axed during or right after 'Heroes' first season. I was crushed when they took the 4400 of the air and didn't watch 'Heroes' until it was on DVD. I found that the show paralleled the 4400 in so many ways that it was difficult for me to accept that 'my show - the 4400' was being replaced by a lousy substitute. Moreover, it is clear that the writers for the 4400 were forward thinkers, and had a clear plot designed so that they could support several seasons of material. Shows like 'Lost' and 'Heroes' both made a huge splash with their first sessions, but the material for subsequent seasons has fizzled. My concerns for bringing back the series are as follows:

1) Most of the stars have moved on to other projects - these actors would need to be hired for follow up programing
Joe Gretch (Tom Baldwin)- "V" - ABC Network - which appears to be airing in 2010.
Summer Glau (Tess) - Sarah Connor Chronicles - FOX Network currently airing
Megalyn Echikunwoke (Isabelle) - CSI Miami
Laura Allen (Lily) - Dirt
Chad Faust - was on a few episodes of Heroes

Many of the stars that are not in TV shows (currently airing on other networks), are involved in movie projects. You can't blame them for trying to find work elsewhere.


2) I was involved in the petitions to bring "Firefly" (one of Joss Weadon's shows) back on the air. It is a difficult process and maybe the point isn't to get USA to air it again. Maybe we should attempt to have a network like the Sci-Fi channel pick up the show and create new episodes. Or support having the show become a feature film (like the movie "Serenity" was to "Firefly").

I am definitely someone who is willing to ‘fight till the end’ however, sometimes you have to take a different approach and support the show in a different way. Please let me know what you think.

Then at least let them be able to make a final finishing movie, I am capable to wait for a few years for that if I know that the will do that.

do a post on my new topic on this 4400 forum and tell the the network what you really think

I'd love to have this show come back!

Just to clarify, "Family guy" is a dirt-cheap worthless peice-of-crud degration of all american society series. The important part is "dirt-cheap."

Now if you're going to argue a show that costs what, $100 dollars an episode? is in anyway comparable to the 4400 which people with REAL talent produced, then you have another thing comming for you. Futurama being brough back as DVD Movies is more impressive than Family Guy. The production costs for Futurama are what, 1000x that of Family Guy? Let alone the production costs of the 4400, who knows how much money was spent just on one episode. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to do better than convice a few people to rebuy the dvd's they bought (pirated).

Could DVD Sales influence the execs? Of course it can, but don't look at Family Guy... the 4400 is going to need REAL Financial Support to bring back, not just 100 or 120 DVD Sales, but 100 to 120 thousand (I would say, at least).


*If it is not obvious, I am VERY much not a Family Guy fan, but if you wish to argue the cost of production, just LOOK at the series, most frames are just static, nothing moves, except for someones mouth and an occasional hand. The less motion, the less redrawing, the less money... the writting is never particularly good, mostly just random (I can use the Internet) pop-culture references with some "situation" that is, for the most part, meaningless to the episode.



P.S.
Would it not be halarious if this little bashing of Family Guy caused this board to have more activity than it's seen in months?