Why cancel when people beg not to?

[Huntress23]

Ok i surf the net to find anything and everything about Smallville and BOP but i went to the wb site and looked at the reply section at the bottom where all the info on BOP is and found that every reply was not to cancel the show!! Tv stations are suppose to give people what they want (and make money) and if you don't give people what they want they get angry! SO Keep BOP. Not just the viewers have to do something but the people of Wb do to. If you cancel BOP people will get angry and when people get angry since they didn't get what they want bad stuff happens.
:fight: see look at the smiles they are not smiling because they're mad that BOP might get canceled!

[DizzyOracle]

THe thing is, I don't think WB is profiting from BoP because of low ratings.

[AngelQueen]

The WB has its business concerns to consider. The fans may enjoy the show to death, but if there aren't enough of them, and WB isn't making a profit, then they send it to the axe.

But there might be hope through Lady Shiva. I've talked to several people at school and told them about the series. They sounded interested and promised to try and watch.

AQ

[AndyPandy88]

Even though I don't live in the US, I have also spread the word via a chainletter and requesting people to download the banners on this site for their backpacks and sign the petition. Many are doing it, so we can get support from all us in the NL.

[Huntress23]

I see your points. (here comes the but) But i know some of my friends and i are reculating people to watch the show it's just that they don't get the wb network andhave to watch it on UPN. I don't know if they count the UPN ratings with the wb since BOP is a wb show. but i have told people about it and even past out the flyer. Long live BOP

[TheWraith]

The answer is simple: not enough people are watching the show, and WB is losing money big time. Hence it being cancelled. People complaining on a message board or elsewhere has not translated into more ratings and has not stemmed the loss of money. Making TV shows is a business, and when you're not making money, the business folds. Simple.

[Venus E]

I blame the Writers. The storylines and the botchy camera and direction added up to the show being cancelled.

Honestly, I could have written better storylines.

Their first huge mistake is given Huntress more screen time. The show is called "Birds of Prey" not "Huntress, The Bird of Prey".

Secondly, they certainly blew when they made Dinah a teenager. Dinah is a young adult, and they should have kept her that way. She was supposed to be Helena's age and she is a brooding character who drinks heavily. Instead they made Dinah a whiny, crybaby. We already have a enough of that on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That was a downfall. They made her have premonitions like Phoebe on "Charmed" and whiny like Dawn on Buffy. She wasn't a new character just borrowed and recycled from other characters on other show.

The Writers should have sat down and took their time to develop these characters carefully. The only character I actually like is Barbara/Batgirl/Oracle. They stuck to the script with her.

[Mandy]

I think that if the WB and producers wanted this show to really really work then they should have done what they did with the movie Resident Evil. They should have hired people that KNEW about the comic, that KNEW what went on in the comic and if they did not then they should have been made to read the comic. Not the whole series but enough to get a good idea of it.

But I think they just hired anyone and everyone said here is what we are going to do we are making a show about Batman and Catwoman's kid, Batgirl and Dinah. Now you sit here and come up with what you can and we will launch it.

And the more I think about the more I start thinking that someone just came up with the idea to turn this into a show and threw it all together.

So in short I agree with you completely Venus E.

[jhowlett]

If you read brain robbins article in mediaweek. You'll see that you only need to blame one guy for this and that's Jordan Levin himself 'coz he had no faith in the show from the start 'coz he had 'buyer's remorse' and feels it's too dark for the wb. What chance can a show get when the a-hole running the wb doesn't even like it from the start.>:

[Frostbite]

With a name like Jordan Levin, you just can't help being a dumbass.

[Venus E]

Jordan Levin may have had "buyers remorse", but it would have taken really skilled writers with top notch story driven episodes to have win him over.

Jordan Levin is not a creative artistic type. He is a businessman, plain and simple. His job is to deal with product and dollar signs. If you can't move the product, you can't turn a profit. The T.V. industry is big business. If a show falls in the ratings, the WB will lose money.

I happen to like the show. My beef is that they should have written better stories.

[bydesignmgd]

I personally like these types of shows. My Wife and Son are also big fans. Good TV with some good content with a flash and excitement. But I've gone through this so many times before. Dark Angel on Fox and a spin-off show from the X-Files, and so on. People are in to these real life shows. I personally hate them and would like to kick the butt of the person who thought them up. TV is all about what's not real. You can go outside and look down the street if you want to see what's real. I would just like a show like this to last more than one or two seasons. I suppose there's only so many people that are like us.

Keep BoP ALiVe!!

[Gothic Knight]

Yup

[Frostbite]

Real life? Oh yeah, jumping 40 feet in the air or turning yourself to water is really realistic.