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Poll: Canceled? Not so fast!

A poll by yrnej
These days if a TV show gets canceled there is still a slight chance they will be picked up by another network or a streaming service. Before this development there were a few times where fan campaigns (often using highly unusual means) were instrumental in getting the ax lifted and the network renewing the show after all.

Out of these successful campaigns, which show do you think most deserved their reprieve?

Discuss the list here

Results of 4,996 votes:

  1. 1.

    Chuck (2007)

     
    Fans launched a "Have a Heart, Renew Chuck" campaign, raising $17,000 for the American Heart Association. They also organized a mass purchase of Subway sandwiches on the day of the finale. S…
  2. 2.

    Star Trek (1966)

     
    A letter-writing campaign scored the show one more season than the network planned.
  3. 3.

    Veronica Mars (2004)

     
    Fans sent 10,000 Mars bars to the network. While this ploy was not successful, a few years later the creators ran a Kickstarter campaign to try and make a movie and ended up earning nearly 300% of the…
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