Lucifans, don’t throw in the towel yet!
Guys, guys, guys! I’m seeing a lot of people saying “Oh no, CW didn’t save our show, guess it’s time to just let it go.”
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT LET #SAVELUCIFER GO!
There’s a reason why Tom mentioned Brooklyn 99 in his interview with BBC Newsnight. He was trying to help fans set expectations. It’s really easy to look at Brooklyn 99 getting picked up after a day and think “That’s the timeline, and each day past that it takes means less and less hope.” FALSE. The Brooklyn 99 deal went through so quickly because it already had connections with NBC and Andy kind of grew up there in his career. Brooklyn 99′s quick save was the exception, not the rule.
Lucifer is going to take more work. It was always going to take more work. And to be honest, Fox screwed us over not just with the cancellation but with the timing of it. Most networks had already mostly locked down their scheduling because Upfronts were this following week. It was very unlikely, right from the start, that Lucifer would find a new home in just a week. That was always the case, since Day 1 of the cancellation.
If you let Fox’s crap cancellation timing make you discouraged about saving the show, then they’ve managed to kill it twice.
If you sit back and say “Well, CW didn’t immediately pick us up, so all hope is lost”, then you’ve doomed our efforts to save the show.
CW is not the only network that could pick us up, so don’t let our exclusion from their current listed schedule kill your motivation.
TV Networks have cycles of shows these days to fill the year, and there’s still a great chance that we could get picked up by other networks. Or maybe it will take a year off the air for a network to be able to find a free hour for us to take. There are a lot of moving parts and much pre-planning involved in network’s designing their TV schedules. It was expected that this will take time.
Tom and Lauren and Rachel and Lesley and Joe and Ildy and everyone in the cast and crew are all counting on Lucifans to keep making noise to give them the best chance of saving the show and finding it a new home. If you let your motivation die because of one missed opportunity, we’ll never save this show. There are clearly meetings happening with someone, so hang in there to see what comes of them.
KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE SHOW.