Legend of the Seeker fans trend on Twitter

Yesterday, April 26, was #savetheseeker day on Twitter as far as fans of Legend of the Seeker were concerned. They turned out in force and brought along a lot of friends and new fans to promote the campaign to bring the show back.

Laura (@sot_fan) from Save Our Seeker shared the following screen captures with everyone to show that the Tweets hit the number 3 ranking in the US and number 29 Worldwide.

Legend of the Seeker fans hit the number 3 spot on Twitter with #savetheseeker on April 26, 2012.

Legend of the Seeker fans hit the number 29 spot Worldwide on Twitter on April 26, 2012 with #savetheseeker.

The next Twitter campaign being planned is for May 13, 2012 — Mother Confessor Day. You can help make it a special one by suggesting your ideas in the LOTS.org forum or at the Confessor and Seeker Society.

Hope for reviving the television series is building up as companies like Netflix and Hulu announce more original programming for their online services. Sure, we’d love to get a broadcast network to pick up the show — or even to entice a film studio into making a movie — but millions of fans just want to see the Seeker and Mother Confessor back in action, and the Internet is starting to prove itself as a real video entertainment medium.

Thanks to all the fans who turned out for to Save the Seeker yesterday. Laura is already working on new ideas. Be on the lookout for more initiatives.

And don’t forget that the April 2012 Save Our Seeker Contest is still running. You can still enter.

Legend of the Seeker starred Craig Horner and Bridget Regan. Be sure to follow them on Twitter. ABC Studios still owns the rights to the show, according to Terry Goodkind (author of the Sword of Truth novels upon which the show was based); we need to show them that we’re not going away.

SyFy’s Craig Engler asks LOTs fans to stop tweeting

The collective tweeting @syfy has now become abusive and Craig Engler is asking fans of Legend of the Seeker to stop pummeling him with Tweets about the canceled show.

The problem is not with the SyFy Twitter account — the problem is that the fans are once again asking an unempowered person to make something happen.

We need to increase our positive, professional visibility rather than just become the eye-rolling annoyance that people in the TV industry will ignore.

They know we’re here. They know what we want. We just need to find ways to help improve the economic equation for ABC Studios and any network that wants to take on 1.7 million to 2.5 million passionate fans.

We won’t Save The Seeker by alienating every television executive and network out there.

Is Raimi trying to replace ABC/Disney?

Bridget Regan spoke to a French journalist at Monte Carlo for an article published on Allocine. The following translated segment at the end of the article has inspired fan speculations:

A few weeks ago, one of our users, lafouine152, wondered if the series was canceled. We told him we would ask you the question. Can you answer?
“Lafouine152″ I do not think that the Seeker will continue his adventures, at least, not with ABC – Disney, which produced the series so far. But if a new producer showed his interest, perhaps it would be different. It would even be the only way to continue the show. After all, I have not yet been released from my contract. Unfortunately this does not seem to take this direction …

If you want to read the article directly, and you don’t read French, you can use sites like Babelfish and Google Translate to do so. Google’s Chrome Browser automatically offers to translate pages when it detects a foreign language.

Bridget has been quoted before as saying something about they are looking for a new producer. And that has caused some confusion for people. If Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are the show’s producers, then why is ABC Studios the Production Company when Raimi/Tapert’s Renaissance Pictures is the Production Company?

The answer is simple: it’s simply complex. I once asked Steve Sears (Co-Executive Producer on Xena: Warrior Princess) why everyone seemed to have “producer” in their title. Did they all do the same thing? His answer was complex (but simply put is thus): “Producer” is a title that is applied to various tasks associated with producing a show. Some producers are writers; some producers are decision-makers; some producers are primarily money men.

So, yes, there are different types of producers and production companies often come together to collaborate on television shows and movies and all sorts of entertainment productions. Don’t worry about why everyone seems to be a producer or who owns the rights to what. The bottom line here is that people are still interested in putting the show back on television — but they are apparently having to make new arrangements.

Whether Disney/ABC is trying to find someone to buy its interest in the property is a question to which I don’t have the answer. It doesn’t sound to me like Raimi and Tapert want out of the Seeker production business. Maybe SyFy wanted to buy ABC’s interest, maybe not. Maybe the rights are on the auction block, maybe not.

I do know that production companies don’t always buy permanent, irrevocable rights. Sometimes there is some sort of reversion or expiration clause in these kinds of contracts. So, far example, the rights to the “John Carter of Mars” movies (based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels) have bounced around from production company to production company every ten years or so — whereas the rights to movies (and everything else merchandisable) based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are permanently owned by the Saul Zaentz Company (which manages those rights through its subsidiary Tolkien Enterprises, which has nothing to do with with the Tolkien Estate or the Tolkien Trust, which are owned by the Tolkien family and administer all other rights to the Tolkien canon).

So, I hope that clears things up for you. It is starting to sound to me like there is “hope” for the Seeker but that it will probably take time to get everything sorted out.

We should continue to show our support for the show, the cast, and all the production companies even if Disney/ABC are now trying to transition out of the picture.

LOTS bus stop ad goes live

The Save Our Seeker advertising campaign rolls on with the promised advertisement in the bus shelter/stop across from ABC Studios now live.

LOTS.org forum user oicaxf uploaded this picture of the ad.

Friday June 4 email and snail mail objectives

LOTS.org forum user LOTSfan2 posted this message with today’s email/snailmail reminders:

Friday, June 4, 2010

Thomas.vitale@nbcuni.com – Executive Vice President, Programming and Original Movies for SyFy and NBC Universal
feedback@syfy.com – SyFy
programming@kfmb.com – KFMB 8 San Diego
http://www.wral.com/apps/feedback/fe…_id_person=350 – CBS Local Station (WRAL 5 Raleigh)
kctv5@kctv5.com – CBS Local Station (KCTV 5 Kansas City)

**Please take the time to mail letters, since they carry far more weight than emails. You can even print out your SyFy email (minus the email addresses, etc), sign it, and mail it.**

SyFy Channel
30 Rockefeller Plaza, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10112

ABC–Extremely important to keep sending letters to them–we have to convince them to be open to negotiations.

ABC Studios
500 S. Buena Vista St
Burbank, CA 91251

Disney/ABC Domestic Television
1133 Ave. of the Americas
33rd Floor
New York, NY 10036