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Maybe you're a huge fan of the Nero Wolfe TV show on A&E. Or maybe you're just a big Timothy Hutton fan and wouldn't mind watching him read the phone book on TV just to stare into his baby blues. Either way, you're gonna get a lot less of both if you don't pull up your socks and fight A&E's decision to cancel the wonderful weekly show.

Remember, Nero Wolfe is very much Tim's baby (except for his young son that is...). Not only is he a star of the show, but he's also a producer and director, and his wife did some illustrations for the show.

So get out the pen and paper, and get started. Here are some tips from the good people at the Nero Wolfe A&E messageboard, and Pfui Pfighters!, who are working to save the show:

Click here to read A&E's Nero Wolfe cancellation notice.

Where to write

To reach A&E (I know they cancelled it but we want encore presentations, marathons, soundtracks, videos, etc):
Dan Davids, Executive Vice President * A&E Television * 235 E. 45th St. * NYC, NY 10017
Also try: Nick Davatzes, CEO, A&E Networks and Delia Fine, VP, Film, Drama & Performing Arts, A&E Television. Both are at the same address.

Write to Michael Jaffe and Timothy Hutton the show's producers and thank them for bringing Nero Wolfe to the screen and encouraging them to find another home for the production.
Jaffe/Braunstein Films * 12301 Wilshire Blvd Suite 110 * Los Angeles, CA 90025

Thank the sponsors of Nero Wolfe: Let them know you noticed their sponsorship and that you hope they will continue to support the program if asked again.

Send a letter to TV Guide letting them know that A&E deserves a big jeer for the cancellation: Editor in Chief * Letters Department * TV Guide * Radnor, PA, 19088
Also try: TV Guide's "Help Save the show you love" - TV Guide SOS Poll * PO Box 4822 * New York, NY 10185-4822; E-mail saveourshows@delphi.com or FAX your response to (212) 852-7740

To reach Bantam publishers currently stocking bookstores with reprints of the Nero Wolfe novels, written by Rex Stout: Bantam Crimeline * 1540 Broadway * NYC, NY 10036

Other resources

We're not just sending letters. People have created postcards, stickers and fliers with slogans and logos available for download.

You can find them at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pfight/files.

In there we have folders with Address lists, letterhead, stickers and fax cover sheets to download, sample letters and other things that might help. We also have files related to the show itself: FAQs about the music, a list of texts - hours of fun.

If you want to really get down into the details of Just Say Pfui! join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pfight/, home of the Pfui Pfighters!

Also check out: Cancel Wolfe? Pfui!

And remember -- talk the show up to everyone you know and in any place you think fans might be found - or cultivated. The most effective thing fans can do in support of keeping a favorite show on a network is something that impacts ratings--Word of Mouth. Get the word out to newsgroups, online mailing lists, write letters to the editor of local papers, weeklies, entertainment rags, TV Guide, etc...If ratings for repeats go up and continue to outperform their vast array of biography re-treads, the industry is gonna notice - believe me!

Tips for Writing

Writing to a new network or a media outlet like TV critics, reporters, TV Guide E!Online?
Tell them who you are, why this show is one of the best on TV, what makes it worthy of their attention, why you're going to miss it, etc. Why an audience that demands quality is an audience that deserves to be heard!

DON'T be angry or antagonistic.
Thank them for giving you two terrific season, express sincere, emphatic regret (politely) that they couldn't find a way to do a third and then ask for those videos, those repeats and that music.

Many thanks to Deb, a Proud Pfui Pfighter, who wrote this text and supplied the great links and addresses, as well as Lovin'Babe. To find the full text, click here.