Best Friends Forever has not been cancelled.
Amazingly, I’ve seen multiple articles saying it HAS been. (Hey, New York Daily News! Your article is factually inaccurate.) Stuff like that bugs me, because perception is a big deal when a show is “on the bubble” and it doesn’t help matters to have a bunch of lazy articles saying it’s already cancelled.
Fortunately, outlets like The Washington Post and VH-1 bothered to not only get their facts straight but also to shine a light on the online petition to save the show and the possibility that fan support might help get the series a second chance. There is hope, and that’s good news for fans of the show.
The good news for NBC is that Best Friends Forever has everything it takes to be a hit TV show. It’s smart and funny and appealing. Lots of people will watch this if it is promoted right and scheduled properly— I suspect that there are smart people making decisions at NBC who are aware of this, and that’s hopefully why the show hasn’t been cancelled.
This isn’t just wishful thinking on my part— if NBC has any institutional memory at all, they know that there is value in giving good shows a chance to find their audience. And if they have a sense that this scrappy little show has, in less than a month, managed to attract a small-but-passionate fan base, that could be enough to convince them that it’s worth ordering a second season.
I posted the other day that, in addition to the online petition (which you should e-mail to all your friends and get them to sign it, okay?), one could buy a BFF season pass on iTunes for the cost of a New York City movie ticket (or a ticket-and-a-half if you live in the Midwest)— it’s a way to vote with your dollars for this show to continue.
You could also go to hulu for free and rate the show and add it to your “favorites.” You could then send that link around to friends who haven’t seen the show and get them to watch it. If NBC isn’t going to air any episodes this month, maybe a spike in online viewing will get their attention. Every little bit helps, and word-of-mouth is still one of the most effective ways of making something more popular. If you know somebody that you think would like BFF, send them the link and tell them to watch it!
SIGN the online petition
BUY the Season Pass on iTunes
WATCH it & rate it & tell your friends to watch it on HULU
Also: keep it up on twitter— @NBC @NBCBFF #saveNBCBFF #saveBFF and so forth. If people are up in arms for a week and then NBC doesn’t hear anything else about it, it won’t count for much. A tweet or two a day doesn’t require much effort, but collectively it can make an impression.
Oh hey, I just made a Hulu account so I could rate this show at 5 stars and then comment gushingly positive on every episode since it’s the best new show on television.
Good.
