Topic: Enterprise Fans Buy L.A. Ad (Read 3089 times)

Nemesis · « **on:** February 12, 2005, 08:54:07 pm »

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Fans of UPN's canceled Star Trek Enterprise announced that they will be purchasing a full-page advertisement in the Los Angeles Times to urge someone to pick up the show for a fifth season

toasty0 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2005, 09:25:01 pm »

See the ad here (warning--you will need a pdf reader to se it): http://enterprisefans.com/ad/final.pdf

I'll see about making a screenie and posting the screenie later.

Jerry

Dash Jones · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2005, 11:02:18 pm »

They can try that. An easier way at this point I think might be if they simply collected 250 million dollars. If they can collect that and pay it to Paramount, UPN might do another season. That would at least cover the production costs if nothing else.

toasty0 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2005, 12:43:11 am »

Quote from: Dash Jones on February 12, 2005, 11:02:18 pm

They can try that. An easier way at this point I think might be if they simply collected 250 million dollars. If they can collect that and pay it to Paramount, UPN might do another season. That would at least cover the production costs if nothing else.

Yeah yeah, someone has always got to say how they would do it better.

GDA-S'Cipio · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2005, 01:50:49 am »

Heck, if fans can raise 250 million, they ought to just hire Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, and David Gerrold to write a few scripts. (Of course, really, they should have done that a season or two ago.)

Good luck to the fans. Le's see what becomes of it.

-S'Cipio

Nemesis · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2005, 06:52:30 am »

Quote from: Dash Jones on February 12, 2005, 11:02:18 pm

They can try that. An easier way at this point I think might be if they simply collected 250 million dollars. If they can collect that and pay it to Paramount, UPN might do another season. That would at least cover the production costs if nothing else.

It has been proposed

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On trekweb, a poster broke down some numbers assuming 1.6 million per episode: $1,600,000 an episode times 22 episodes comes out to $35,200,000 for a season. $35,200,000 divided by 3,000,000 viewers is $11.74 each. He suggested we contribute to pay for Season 5, a great idea! 3 million has been the average for Season 4. $11.74? Let's round it to $12.00 even x 3 mil equals $36,000,000.00 for Season 5. I spend 12 bucks on Domino's Pizza!

Let's put our money where our hearts, minds and mouths are and start a fund to pay for the cost of Season 5. We need a central website and Saveenterprise is just the place. I support letter writing and buying ads as much as the next guy but desparate times calls for desparate measures so along with the writing campaign, phone calls to CBS and Paramount, protest at the offices, let's do something that's never been done before: THE FANS PAY FOR SEASON 5! The cancellation of Enterprise hasn't gotten any attention except for a blurb in the entertainment sections of the papers so let's shake things up and get some publicity!

Dash Jones · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2005, 07:52:05 am »

35 million comes nowhere close to supporting production. They forget advertising, specials, broadcast itself, and a whole slew of other items. So, that's not going to really cut it overall, though I suppose maybe the network would compromise with them...that's a REALLY big maybe....meaning the network would want more.

Alidar Jarok · « **Reply #7 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:32:03 am »

If you consider that the profits are going to Paramount, Enterprise could probably be given just the licensing fee, which was only 800,000 per episode, iirc. It had been decided that they just couldn't cut the fee any more and make episodes, not that they wouldn't make episodes with the money they got this season.

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