How to Save a Favorite TV Show From Cancellation

You follow one TV show religiously, planning that one night of the week around it. But you know its ratings aren't the best, especially in those "key demographics," and every season ends with speculation that it will be canceled. What can you do to make sure your favorite show is back next year?

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Watch the show every time you can. It will be most important to watch the show's main time slot with its recent episodes, but check when syndicated reruns air as well. If nothing else, you will know that an eventual cancellation wasn't your fault.
2. Take part in the actual ratings when you can. Your chances of the Nielson company sending you one of their packets to fill out are slim. If they do, mark down your show in every time slot in which it appears including recent and rerun episodes.
3. Write letters to the TV network. Be sure to include in full detail everything that is good about the show and why it would be a mistake to cancel it. Tell them you know of many other people who agree with you and would turn off that network if the show was gone.
4. Buy the show's previous seasons on DVD. The purchase rates of these collections have become a new method of tracking the show's popularity. Remember that DVD sales led to the revival of "Family Guy" after its cancellation.
5. Talk with everyone you know who watches the show and encourage them to do all of the above. Have them find other people they know and get them to join the fight. The more numbers you have in this campaign, the more the network will listen.
6. Get everyone to send some sort of item that represents the show to the network. It should all be the same item that has a tie-in to the show, like Tabasco sauce for "Roswell" or light bulbs for "Friday Night Lights." This sounds corny but it can work.