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"Back in the day, if your favorite TV show was on the network chopping block, your only real option for hoping to get it saved was organizing a massive letter writing campaign.  \nBut in the era of blogs, social networks, and microblogging, fans of endangered shows can quickly organize and protest, and in some cases, even guilt network execs into giving them at least a bit more of their favorite programs.\nJericho was briefly brought back by CBS last year after an online campaign, while Arrested Development\u2019s cult status online has led to the production of a movie, set to be released next year.  Now, fans of the NBC show Chuck are organizing to try and save it as rumors swirl that this could be the final season.The leader of the movement seems to be the TV blog \u201CGive Me My Remote,\u201D which has rebranded itself as \u201CGive Me My Chuck\u201D while the campaign plays itself out.  The site is sharing comments from users that want to save the show, updating with the latest news, and providing tools like Twitter backgrounds that promote \u201CSave Chuck\u201D that can be used on social media sites.\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking of Twitter, there is also a hashtag being heavily used in the discussion of saving the show - #savechuck.  Meanwhile, the show\u2019s star, Zachary Levi, used his own blog to encourage viewers to go to Subway (who does product placement within Chuck), buy a $5 footlog, and leave a note in their comment box thanking them for sponsorship and asking them to help save the show.  Twitter users have responded with hundreds of messages along the lines of \u201Ceat at Subway tonight to help save Chuck!\u201D\nAll of which leads me to conclude, it must be really hard to cancel a TV show these days, at least if you\u2019re a network exec that\u2019s at all clued into social media.  Granted, not every show that gets canceled has enough support to see a campaign like that we saw with Jericho, and that we\u2019re seeing now with Chuck.  But the show clearly has thousands of rabid fans online that are speaking up, and if NBC moves ahead and cancels the show, their voices will only become louder.\n[h/t to mltda]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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