News Release

Mary Ann Beavis (for Prey for Us)

beavis@duke.usask.ca

http://start.at/prey

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FANS OF THE LEGENDARY CULT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES PREY ARE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SCI-FI CHANNEL'S PLANS FOR THE SHOW.

PREY, canceled after 13 episodes after it was aired in 1998 by ABC, attracted a tenacious and persistent group of fans in the 30 countries where it has been aired who won't rest until the show is back in production. Their most recent stunt was to send a thousand keys-symbolizing the cliffhanger where a favorite character is left locked in a cage-from viewers to the Sci-Fi Channel, which began showing reruns of PREY in January 2000.

PREY fans were delighted-and intrigued-when the August 8 issue of the Indianapolis Star ran an interview with Jeanne Winstead, Prey for Us Campaign Webmaster. The article cites Sci-Fi Channel spokeswoman Kat Stein, who says that the campaign had been noticed, AND that there is a movement at Sci-Fi "to give the PREY fans something . . . maybe we can give something back to the fans that would satisfy them."

Comments Mary Ann Beavis, Prey for Us Campaign Coordinator, "Ms. Stein's remarks have given us a great deal of hope-and sparked our curiosity! If we can get the Sci-Fi Channel to budge after PREY has been out of production for two years, we will have accomplished something that fan campaigns rarely manage to do-we will have made a difference!"

The next phase of the campaign, says Beavis, will be to step up the pressure on Sci-Fi to explain what they mean by giving the fans something that will satisfy them. "It's taken a lot of work to get their attention," says Beavis, "But the Sci-Fi Channel is finally listening!"

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KEYWORDS: Prey, Science Fiction, Science, Evolution