Yup it's true:
August 23, 2006 -- AS HBO's "Deadwood" heads toward its final regular episode this weekend, fans are still seething over the cancellation of their favorite show.
It remains to be seen how many of them will make good on a vow they made earlier this year to cancel their HBO subscriptions this coming Monday, the day after the "Deadwood" finale - a date they've dubbed "Cancel HBO Day."
"I haven't the foggiest notion," said D. Grimes, administrator of the Web site credited with creating Cancel HBO Day, savedeadwood.tv, when asked if he could guess how many "Deadwood" fans are planning to drop HBO next week.
But Grimes, a New Mexico businessman, does know of at least one HBO subscriber who plans on dropping the pay-cable channel - himself.
"I've been an HBO subscriber for probably 10 years," he said yesterday. "I'm just not that impressed with what they've been doing lately, and 'Deadwood' was kind of the last thing that they had that I'm really interested in and I want to send them a message.
"So, at least until there's something named 'Deadwood' back on the air, I probably won't have HBO."
He will likely have a long wait. HBO insists it intends to produce two, 2-hour "Deadwood" movies that will serve as finales of sorts for the series. With production tentatively scheduled to commence next spring, the movies won't likely hit the air until late next year or 2008.
HBO's decision to make the movies was made, at least in part, in response to the outcry last spring by fans who were angered when HBO decided not to finance a fourth season of the profane western series. The decision meant that the third season, which was then just about to begin on June 11, would be the series' last.
While tempers were hot back then, an HBO spokesman said yesterday that the anger - at least as it is expressed by viewers in their communications with HBO - had died down subsequently.
Still, just yesterday, "Deadwood" fans continued to post messages venting their displeasure on HBO's own Web site.
" 'Deadwood' is one of the best shows ever created," wrote one. "It will be unfortunate if the show can't come to an acceptable conclusion for its audience."
Whether this Sunday's episode is "acceptable" to "Deadwood" fans as a series ender will be a matter of opinion.
The episode, airing at 9 p.m., was designed as a season finale, not a series finale, and was filmed before producer/creator David Milch got the news there would be no fourth season for "Deadwood," which has averaged 3.9 million viewers per episode this summer, according to HBO.
For its part, the cable channel seems unconcerned about Cancel HBO Day. "We respect the diehard fans of our programming," the HBO spokesman said, "but find it strange, because of the wealth of our programming, that someone would consider canceling HBO. We're not just one show."
I will be one of those cancelling Hbo come Monday.
"HBO COCKSUCKERS...............":finger:
August 23, 2006 -- AS HBO's "Deadwood" heads toward its final regular episode this weekend, fans are still seething over the cancellation of their favorite show.
It remains to be seen how many of them will make good on a vow they made earlier this year to cancel their HBO subscriptions this coming Monday, the day after the "Deadwood" finale - a date they've dubbed "Cancel HBO Day."
"I haven't the foggiest notion," said D. Grimes, administrator of the Web site credited with creating Cancel HBO Day, savedeadwood.tv, when asked if he could guess how many "Deadwood" fans are planning to drop HBO next week.
But Grimes, a New Mexico businessman, does know of at least one HBO subscriber who plans on dropping the pay-cable channel - himself.
"I've been an HBO subscriber for probably 10 years," he said yesterday. "I'm just not that impressed with what they've been doing lately, and 'Deadwood' was kind of the last thing that they had that I'm really interested in and I want to send them a message.
"So, at least until there's something named 'Deadwood' back on the air, I probably won't have HBO."
He will likely have a long wait. HBO insists it intends to produce two, 2-hour "Deadwood" movies that will serve as finales of sorts for the series. With production tentatively scheduled to commence next spring, the movies won't likely hit the air until late next year or 2008.
HBO's decision to make the movies was made, at least in part, in response to the outcry last spring by fans who were angered when HBO decided not to finance a fourth season of the profane western series. The decision meant that the third season, which was then just about to begin on June 11, would be the series' last.
While tempers were hot back then, an HBO spokesman said yesterday that the anger - at least as it is expressed by viewers in their communications with HBO - had died down subsequently.
Still, just yesterday, "Deadwood" fans continued to post messages venting their displeasure on HBO's own Web site.
" 'Deadwood' is one of the best shows ever created," wrote one. "It will be unfortunate if the show can't come to an acceptable conclusion for its audience."
Whether this Sunday's episode is "acceptable" to "Deadwood" fans as a series ender will be a matter of opinion.
The episode, airing at 9 p.m., was designed as a season finale, not a series finale, and was filmed before producer/creator David Milch got the news there would be no fourth season for "Deadwood," which has averaged 3.9 million viewers per episode this summer, according to HBO.
For its part, the cable channel seems unconcerned about Cancel HBO Day. "We respect the diehard fans of our programming," the HBO spokesman said, "but find it strange, because of the wealth of our programming, that someone would consider canceling HBO. We're not just one show."
I will be one of those cancelling Hbo come Monday.
"HBO COCKSUCKERS...............":finger:
