[Belindanan]

VM fans are a rabid bunch, that’s for sure! Hot on the heels of the Nuts for Jericho campaign is the Mars Bars to Save Veronica Mars campaign! It seems however that MARS bars are kind of hard to find in the US and that only one major online store had them for sale in the US, and they’re now out of stock due to the fans! They’ve had to move to other candy and the total count seems to be over $2,500 USD worth of MARS bars (1,920 bars), Mars Snickers Almond Bars (4,848 bars) and like over 400 pounds of marshmallows. It’s a tiny drop in the bucket compared to Jericho’s almost $50,000 USD worth of support but I actually think this has kind of fallen into the shadow of Jericho’s campaign and has been hurt because of that.

I really think The CW should green light at least a mid season 13 episode run or something with the Veronica in the FBI format. It’s pretty much an entirely new show with at least a 2 to 2.5 viewing and already well known stars. With how heavy the network is on new shows and old shows being dropped this seems like a risk worth taking, even for investors.

The old format didn’t draw what they wanted, understandable, but they dropped two high profile shows that probably padded their fan base a bit and pitching a new pilot all over again (which WAS received really well by higher up!) seems like just a giant step out of the mold to work with a network and capture back some of the drop off that surely will occur come next fall.

This is a show being pushed around that I truly don’t understand, Firefly and even Drive were (in the eyes of the network) hunting for an instant hit and they never planned the airtime for a slow build up if they didn’t draw massive numbers on the first couple episodes. Veronica Mars has been green lit three years and even expanded from a limited 13 episodes to almost a full season. If they weren’t going to axe it if it didn’t explode into a hit, why are they so worried about giving a new format a shot? A 2 rating is not enough to warrant it being on the network yet they let it hang around three seasons when it didn’t pull much more then that? Networks don’t let the season play out and nicely end a show; they would have pulled it mid episode if they thought wanted higher numbers!

[Jwskwhdo]

I just want Firefly back.

[stuck_in_WA]

MilkyWay Bar is the same thing as Mars here in America.

[Belindanan]

I just want Firefly back.

Oh it's long from dead, we'll probably see more of it for a good few more years every now and then, it'll never be what it should have, but it'll stay alive!

By the way, are you going to the Serenity Charity event at the end of the month?

[gambleingsites]

Truly amazing.

[iklostardinn]

Fascinating

[Eagevawax]

VM fans are a rabid bunch, that’s for sure! Hot on the heels of the Nuts for Jericho campaign is the Mars Bars to Save Veronica Mars campaign! It seems however that MARS bars are kind of hard to find in the US and that only one major online store had them for sale in the US, and they’re now out of stock due to the fans!

That wasn't really a very well though out plan was it? We are going to bombard the TV studio with some confectionery, of which there is only 2000 bars available. But then what do you expect from Veronica Mars fans? Not to mention how selfish that is what about all the people who genuinely love the taste of Mars bars who will now have to go without indefinitely because of rabid obsessive TV fiends.

Is this the future? Thanks to the Jericho success are TV studio going to be forever inundated with consumables every time they cancel a show?

[cauddyVab]

Let's see now: they pull a popular-with-nerds TV show and then get sent a pile of free chocolate? Oh that's really going to make them put it back online!

[gambleingsites]

popular-with-nerds TV show

That's geekist [rofl]


However I wholeheartedly agree. [thumbup]

[avaincmolla]

Let's see now: they pull a popular-with-nerds TV show and then get sent a pile of free chocolate? Oh that's really going to make them put it back online!

All it's going to do is make the producers and stuff so fat that they can't use the telephone because their fingers are the size of carrots.

[cauddyVab]

Not if they're like me - I single-handedly keep Cadbury's in business and I still only weigh 65kg!

[avaincmolla]

Not if they're like me - I single-handedly keep Cadbury's in business and I still only weigh 65kg!

Lol
I only see Cadbury's around here at easter time.

[vTLWqa1l]

While its a good idea after the success of Jerocho's plan, I can't see this working anywhere near as well. It doesn't even come close to the message the nuts delivered. Only thing this one has is the chocolate has the same name as her last name...whopee.

[Cuccuccaltefe]

If a show is cancelled as it's not getting enough viewers, why would sending nuts and chocolate bars to a broadcasting company change their minds?

[vTLWqa1l]

If a show is cancelled as it's not getting enough viewers, why would sending nuts and chocolate bars to a broadcasting company change their minds?

Worked for Jericho! I guess 20 tons of nuts was enough to make them crack.

[Belindanan]

That wasn't really a very well though out plan was it? We are going to bombard the TV studio with some confectionery, of which there is only 2000 bars available. But then what do you expect from Veronica Mars fans? Not to mention how selfish that is what about all the people who genuinely love the taste of Mars bars who will now have to go without indefinitely because of rabid obsessive TV fiends.

Is this the future? Thanks to the Jericho success are TV studio going to be forever inundated with consumables every time they cancel a show?

The MARS bars are in reference to Veronica MARS, they’re sending marshmallows in reference to the very first episode for the closing voice over of

Let's see now: they pull a popular-with-nerds TV show and then get sent a pile of free chocolate? Oh that's really going to make them put it back online!

Anyway, it worked for Jericho with nuts, and at the end of season two fans hired a plane to fly a banner around the networks office building asking to please renew it and that ended up getting a decent amount of PR and we got a season three.

All it's going to do is make the producers and stuff so fat that they can't use the telephone because their fingers are the size of carrots.

Also, it’s suggested in the letter being sent to the CW with all the candy to donate it to a local charity.


This really could be the CW’s chance to pick up the show with just a couple key returning actors, a new story line and path (Veronica all grown up in the FBI) with just hints every now and then to filling in slight back story for the die hard fans, AND shift the focus from teenage girls to a more general market of male and female teenagers and adults. The show has great writing; you can’t deny that, however, when you target it for young chicks and then can’t seem to suck in anyone else maybe you should change the marketing and not F with the show all the time. Guys don’t really want to sit through three commercials about maxi pads or tampons, cute shirts from American Eagle, and how some new car is designed for women. It’s seriously surprising when you do watch those commercials on the CW just how feminine they all are.

Edit: By the way, this isn’t new with Jericho. Fans have been trying to do anything to show the networks that they actually are out there even if there are only two Nielsen families watching the show! Family Guy was saved on DVD sales, Veronica Mars has had massive fund raiser drives to buy DVDs and donate them to local libraries all over the United States to try to allow more people free access to the show to get involved in it and become fans, they’ve hired airplanes to fly over cities and thank the network and show and ask for it to be renewed and they have carpet bombed cities with flyers pitching the network name and show name into the public eye.


A massive DVD buy out would probably be the best bet for Veronica Mars, and I’m sure the fans could pull something off however, since DVDs lag behind a few months the show is packed up and gone long before the fans can make an impact by having DVD sales skyrocket. We would rather the CW do something (even just a mid season pick up with the NEW format) before the rent out the sound stage to some other show, destroy all the sets, fire all the actors, hire all the actors on other shows, and pull all TV spots and web sites about it. Waiting until upfronts was bad enough, but at one point they even said it might be as late as June 15th (I think, or around there) before they could make up their mind on if the show would return mid season or not. What other show has caused any network so much trouble and thought that they have to wait until AFTER upfronts to set in stone if it’s coming back or not? This is not a clear death, I think they’re just betting on a new show being a gem rather then the new Veronica format being a gem, and that makes us sad.

[VottCetaVeivE]

A Mars bar Exec is going to get a BIG bonus for this.

How do you know the same Exec didn't have a moment of inspiration and vision and demanded VM be pulled or all advertising from Mars would be pulled? It would deserve a bonus if they pulled the strings like this [thumbup]

Anyway, get a girlfriend. Find one called Veronica if you have to.

[zuhraliyana]

What a ridiculous waste of money. Can't these TV geeks work out a way of this form of "protest" that actually does something useful?

[BriKevin]

Personally I hate this phrase as I find it idiotic and annoying as Hell... But acarney, dude, get a life. I'm being serious. This can't be healthy... Go outside, play some sports, go ride your bike, something. You're far too wrapped up in these TV shows. [no]

[emorbimefed]

Personally I hate this phrase as I find it idiotic and annoying as Hell... But acarney, dude, get a life. I'm being serious. This can't be healthy... Go outside, play some sports, go ride your bike, something. You're far too wrapped up in these TV shows. [no]

I go out all the time and ride my bike everywhere, and I'm still happy about the Jericho campaign