so much drama

[lemanya]

Tiny little me has a HUGE favour to ask the miniscule flist I have.

See, here in Australia, we're already behind on Season 5 Supernatural airing. At first, it was okay, because Channel Ten had set it up so that when episode 11 kicked in in America, we'd only be a week behind.

Then, they changed the programming so that Stargate: Universe aired 8.30, followed by Supernatural 9.30. Ratings dropped. Like ants at insecticide. Ratings evidence showed that once Stargate: Universe was placed before Supernatural, an ratings dropped on Stargate, ratings dropped by at least 200,000 on Supernatural as well. So Ten pulled them both off air. Kicker is... the houses that contain the ratings boxes is an EXTREMELY small sample (2000-3000 in a city of approximately 4.4 million) and very accurately do NOT reflect the amount of people religiously watching the show (for an example, check out the turnout for the Australian All Hell Break Loose 2009 convention and then remember that's only a small percentage of fans. Some people, like me, were not able to go). 

Now, it's been nearly four weeks of no Supernatural, and Ten claims they haven't pulled it completely, but just until they find another schedule for it (in its place, are feature movies. 8.30 monday night, repeat feature movies).

This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. Just about every year we have problems with SPN programming and it's kinda got to the point that the Aussie fans have snapped. We've got a petition running now, and are on approximately 350 people signed, but we don't have the resources to properly advertise and get our numbers up.

So here's the link : http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bring-supernatural-back-to-channel-ten.html and it'd be oh-so-very-much brilliant if you guys could add your name to it, and maybe leave a little comment showing your support of our cause. Australian fans are always going to be the most influential in this case, but it'd help if they could see that fans everywhere are in agreement with us on this.

And if you can, pass on the message. Especially to other Australians on your flists incase they don't know or haven't signed up yet.  It'd be mighty helpful. We're just so tired of complaining. After a while, it just seems so bratty and psycho (and believe me, it seems psycho), but a lot of us are just so sick of Ten's misuse of a television program.