HBO Cancels Carnivale

I want to fight for Carnivale'!!!!!

Big tent folds as HBO cancels 'Carnivale'
Wed May 11, 2005 08:01 AM ET
By Andrew Wallenstein
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has pulled up stakes on "Carnivale," opting not to order a third season of the circus-set Dust Bowl drama.

Prospects for a "Carnivale" renewal have appeared bleak since the sophomore season wrapped in March; the show didn't increase its viewership, and series creator/executive producer Daniel Knauf already signed on to produce a series for the rival Showtime cable channel.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=8455148

That was a great show.

Sign up and fight for this one! Here is the yahoo action group link to Save Carnivale and write letters...

It would probably be wise, at this point, to focus our letters &
telegrams directly toward Chris Albrecht and not Miranda Heller or
Carolyn Strauss. Carolyn, no doubt, ended up making the cancellation
statement because that's her job to do so. But the man with his thumb on
the yea or nea button is Chris Albrecht.

So let's make sure to focus the lion's share of our energies toward
him. Here's his address if you need it again!

Chris Albrecht - Chairman and CEO - HBO Entertainment
HBO Entertainment
2500 Broadway, Ste. 400
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Hope that helps!
-- Beth



Visit The SAVE CARNIVALE WEBLOG for up-to-date information on fandom's
efforts to bring back Carnivale:
http://savecarnivale.blogspot.com/

That's pretty much the ballgame.

he sold the rights of Carnivale, 100% of such, to HBO. He actually wanted a 3rd season. He has a total of 6 seasons already to go...which takes things up to 1945.

He said his going to Showtime was just work since he has to put fod on the table....and HBO was sluggish. The Showtime job is not a conflict.

There are several threads over the past 8 weeks or so in the TV Forum. Lots of saga information and blog notes from Daniel Knauf. Go take a peek....

This is what he posted on the Yahoo HBO Carnivale site....about a month ago.

The Baggage Trailer also a Carnivale Board has a thread called, The Gospal of Knauf....a collection of all his posts.

http://s6.invisionfree.com/The_Baggage_Trailer/index.php?showtopic=158

Quote/reply on the CarnyCon Chat; by Daniel Kanuf... the end of April I think:

Since this one's come up more than once, I'll field it right now (but
no others--this is the last time I'll be online until the chat tonight).

Backup?

HBO owns Carnivale. Lock, stock and barrel. They even own the
bullets! I created it, and I sold it to them. The characters, the
setting, the whole ball of wax. In perpetuity. In all mediums: film,
television, books--even mediums that haven't been invented yet.
Everywhere in the universe. Known and unknown.

If they cancel, then the show is most likely dead. Unless HBO wants
to sell it or allow it to air on a competing network--which I doubt.

Regarding a movie that "wraps things up": if one airs, I certainly
won't be part of it. There's a decade of story left, 48 hours of
screen-time. Ratcheting it down to a condensed version would be an
exercise in futility AND a slap in the face of the fans. Moreover, it
would be the worst kind of sell-out in the world.

Believe me, it would be better to leave Carnivale unfinished than
finished poorly.

As far as writing a series of books, see the first paragraph. I can't
touch these characters without HBO's permission.

So, like it or not, there is no Plan-B.

HBO holds *all* the cards. So it's do-or-die time, guys.

:mad:

The fundies must be behind this