The Saturday Hit List

The following is the Saturday Hit list.

Remember quantity is just as important as the quality of our messages.

Media:
United Press International - newstips@upi.com

Note: UPI receives many news tips and press releases each day. While we cannot guarantee that any item will be used, a few simple procedures will help ensure that your release or news tip gets to the right editors and increases your chance of getting coverage.
1. Please keep release short
2. Identify the organization or individual sending the release and include the contact name and phone number of the person who can respond to our inquiry
3. Date the release and include whether the material is for immediate use or for release at a late date.
Tell them about what has happened at LOCI, what fans are doing about it, and why. Be sure to tell them about the "Fluff" Campaign. Also, direct them to :
our blog: http://savinggorenandeamesnow.blogspot.com/

our website: http://savinggorenandeamesnow.com/

our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/saveGorenEames


Social Networks:

Twitter – Tweet now and Tweet often! Tell USA Network about our planned boycott of sponsors.

Facebook – Ask all your friends to sign the petition!
http://www.gopetition.com/online/31034.html

Emails:

Ask everyone on your personal email contact list to sign the petition! We need many more signatures.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/31034.html

Over the next few days, we suggest your emails to the NBCUNI executives reflect our position on boycotting the sponsors of LOCI. For details and writing suggestions see: http://savinggorenandeamesnow.blogspot.com/2009/10/usa-network-sponsor-details-making-it.html

jeff.wachtel@nbcuni.com

bonnie.hammer@nbcuni.com

jeff.gaspin@nbcuni.com

andrea.epstein@nbcuni.com

Lynn Weiss, +1-818-777-6682, lynn.weiss@nbcuni.com

Farrah Hersh, +1-212-664-4137, farrah.hersh@nbcuni.com

Mark Miller, Senior VP-Cable Entertainment Sales 212-664-2208 mark.miller@nbcuni.com
Gotta let this guy know we will boycott all advertisers

jeff.zucker@nbcuni.com

And of course send your postcards (more than 1!) to:

Jeff Wachtel President of Original Series
USA Network
30 Rockefeller Plaza
21st Floor
New York, NY 10112

Bonnie Hammer President
USA Network
30 Rockefeller Plaza
21st Floor
New York, NY 10112

Online Digital postcards here!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43241958@N03/

On Postcards: Again, let Ms. Hammer and/or Mr. Wachtel know just how upset and unhappy we are! Ask her/him to reconsider. Let them know about our plan to boycott LOCI sponsors.

Dumped and Fired?

We don't know for sure why they are leaving, but if you haven't seen these, you should. Decide for yourself.... (thanks to Charley for compiling these references)

"Insiders say that despite the popularity of the actors, they're being dumped to make room for Jeff Goldblum to be lead detective."
Yahoo Buzz Sept 25, 2009

"It's official. "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" is giving key stars from the hitcop show their walking papers next season"
CTV News Sept 25, 2009

"Question: Vincent D'Onofrio can't leave Law & Order: CI! Did he quit or was he fired? —Jacob Ausiello: Quit?! That's hilarious! Thanks for the laugh. I needed that."
Ausiello Files Sept 30, 2009

"...four actors are being pulled from the cast of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," including longtime star Vincent D'Onofrio."
Inside Blip, Sept 25, 2009

NBC bright spot in GE earnings

There are already some comments about Criminal Intent! Go add yours!

......that 4th-quarter advertising sales are up by a double-digit
percentage at the network, and more than 20% at the NBC Universal cable
networks, including USA, Bravo, Syfy, CNBC and Oxygen.

Oh, really?
The complete article here:

From silive.com

http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/10/gunfire_and_explosions_at_stap.html

No word as to whether this actually transpired....

Friday Hit List

The following is the Friday Hit list.

Remember quantity is just as important as the quality of our messages.

Media:

Live with Regis and Kelly - ABC http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/regisandkelly/special/askregiskelly/

Tell them about what has happened at LOCI, what fans are doing about it, and why. Be sure to tell them about the "Fluff" Campaign. Also, direct them to :

our blog: http://savinggorenandeamesnow.blogspot.com/

our website: http://savinggorenandeamesnow.com/

our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/saveGorenEames

Social Networks:

Twitter – Tweet now and Tweet often! Tell USA Network about our planned boycott of sponsors.

Facebook – Ask all your friends to sign the petition!

http://www.gopetition.com/online/31034.html

Emails:

Ask everyone on your personal email contact list to sign the petition! We need many more signatures.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/31034.html

Over the next few days, we suggest your emails to the NBCUNI executives reflect our position on boycotting the sponsors of LOCI. For details and writing suggestions see: http://savinggorenandeamesnow.blogspot.com/2009/10/usa-network-sponsor-details-making-it.html

jeff.wachtel@nbcuni.com

bonnie.hammer@nbcuni.com

jeff.gaspin@nbcuni.com

andrea.epstein@nbcuni.com

Lynn Weiss, +1-818-777-6682, lynn.weiss@nbcuni.com

Farrah Hersh, +1-212-664-4137, farrah.hersh@nbcuni.com

Mark Miller, Senior VP-Cable Entertainment Sales 212-664-2208

mark.miller@nbcuni.com

Gotta let this guy know we will boycott all advertisers

jeff.zucker@nbcuni.com

And of course send your postcards (more than 1!) to:

Jeff Wachtel President of Original Series
USA Network
30 Rockefeller Plaza
21st Floor
New York, NY 10112

Bonnie Hammer PresidentUSA Network
30 Rockefeller Plaza
21st Floor
New York, NY 10112

Online Digital postcards here!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43241958@N03/

On Postcards: Again, let Ms. Hammer and/or Mr. Wachtel know just how upset and unhappy we are! Ask her/him to reconsider. Let them know about our plan to boycott LOCI sponsors.

Fluffalanche arrives in NYC!!!

Today a mountain of Fluff will be arriving at USA Network offices!

We're wondering if they've decided to move the filming to Chelsea Piers so they won't be inundated with Fluffy stuff which has oozed from Rockefeller Plaza....

Fluffalanche arrives in NYC. Dozens stare in shocked disbelief as mountains of fluff cover city.

"I couldn't believe it!" one bystander said. "It just rolled in...like a giant snowball. We had to wade through four feet of it just to get to the deli! Unreal!"
"Some of it's kinda sticky," observed a young boy as he reached down to put his small hands into a mound of the stuff. "It tastes like marshmallow candy, too!"

Authorities say schools are closed and businesses are shut down for the day due to heavy traffic snarls and downed power lines. Children and adults alike are taking advantage of the strange events. They are all flocking to Chelsea Piers with their hands and pockets full of the stuff. There is even a giant "fluffman" being erected down on the piers, though it bears a remarkable resemblence to a very famous actor. This reporter may have to brave the "fluff" and head on down to Chelsea Piers to check things out. Full report at eleven.

From On Location Vacations: Law and Order: Criminal Intent: I originally heard they would be filming on Staten Island but I also heard (from a very reliable source) that they would be filming at Chelsea Piers.

Thanks once again to Nantz for beginning the whole Fluff thang!

Thanks to OBC for the "news report"!

How This is Different than Cancellation?

Thank you to redheaded_tigger on the USA forum for this analysis:

I really do think the "problem" we have with our LOCI campaign is that the show is not being cancelled, it's just removing the key players and taking the show in a completely different direction. Were the show actually being cancelled, we'd have thousands involved.

I don't think casual, even regular, fans will put 1 + 1 + 1 together and realize this was almost certainly a mass firing; they'll just think "gee, everyone's leaving". We see what's been up, and that's why we're in an uproar.

Now, that being said, we have inherently a different campaign going on with LOCI than Southland or Jericho or My Name is Earl do/did. Those shows are cancelled, which means strike the set,
release the space,
let the writers and crew go, etc. etc.

LOCI still has all those things in place.
They still need a wardrobe department.
They still need a set and props.
They still need cameramen and writers and gaffers and all those people.

It's easier to restart if all the pieces are already set up and not going anywhere. Also, there are several orders of magnitude difference between getting at least 2 actors back for an additional 6 shows than there is for rehiring all that crew. We are asking for far less. That tells me the sticking point is the "fluffiness" more so than the cash, but that's jmo.

I'm not giving up hope yet--we really aren't asking for much! We've already got 2 eps in Puntland. C'mon, 6 more G/E eps and a fitting end to their stories is too much to ask? What angers me is that apparently that is too much to ask of USA.

Win or lose, I have fought my hardest for this show. Everyone in the campaign has done what they can. And if we win, everybody wins--the actors, the casual viewers, and the folks that disagree with us. Trying to change things is the least I can do.

I don't know how much hope that inspires in you, but the battle would be much much harder were there not a show to come back to. And nobody has told us to cease and desist. (Anybody heard anything from Kate?) If nothing else, the actors know how much we love them. Right now, I'm running on that. I'm sure we'll hear more soon.