Not strictly comic book related, but it’s close enough…especially since I’m a fan of the show. For those of you that don’t know, The WB has decided to cancel ANGEL after this, it’s fifth season. Nothing new, right? Shows get cancelled all the time. The big difference here is that this is easily the best season ANGEL’s seen in terms of story, and The WB has never had anything negative to say about the show’s prettty solid ratings (it’s one of the network’s top-3 rated series), so this decision has raised more ire than it might have if the show were on a downward spiral. Ergo, it’s no suprise that ANGEL fans have organized a campaign to save the show.

What’s different with this campaign is that they actually seem to know what they’re doing, and have managed to amass a genuine warchest. To date, over $17K has been raised, ads are going to be appearing in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, and a mobile billboard campaign will be starting shortly. Additionally, there are custom-designed postcard for you to print out and mail to specified addresses, flyers to be distributed if you want to, and even a postcard designed to work with the USPS’s online mailing deal.

It’s all really quite impressive.

And don’t write these guys off as HEAT-esque lunatics just yet. SImilar campaigns have proven successful in the past, even before the internet was available to rally the masses. Cagney & Lacey was cancelled and renewed after fans wrote the network en-masse, and other shows such as Star Trek and Roswell have seen similar results.

If you’re interested in checking out the hubbub for yourself, and might even want to send a card in, take a look at http://www.savingangel.org. If nothing else, you have to be impressed with the efforts and achievements they’ve made so far.

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