It was announced by Global TV and Shaw media last week that they would not be bringing back award winning and critically acclaimed Canadian show Bomb Girls for a third season. Fans of the show were devastated, and Global then made a rather cryptic announcement about buying a 2 hour Bomb Girls movie in order to wrap up any loose threads. I have not been shy in my love for this show, about a group of women working at a munitions factory in WWII-era Toronto, and I too was disappointed to hear it was cancelled. I’m not sure the exact reason why they decided to can it, since it did win several awards, critics’ love, and international distribution in both the U.S. and U.K.
However, even though Global claims to be making this movie, this isn’t the first time such a thing has been promised and not happened, and fans would still much rather have a third season than a movie anyway. But luckily, Bomb Girls fans have been rallying together to try and save the show from cancellation, in one of the most organized campaigns I’ve seen protesting a television show’s cancellation. The Save Bomb Girls campaign has several ways you can protest the show’s cancellation and let Shaw and Global execs know how much the show means to you. There are two online petitions; the Fandom Love video campaign, where fans make short videos about their love of Bomb Girls to be posted online; the Badger with Badges campaign, where fans can print out premade Victory Munitions badges and mail them to Global TV headquarters; the upcoming Victory Bandanas campaign; and all the contact information you need to send your own letters of protest to executives at both Global and Shaw.
Now, this could actually work. Sometime in the last five years, TV execs have noticed there is some value in picking up series other networks dropped (Arrested Development, Southland, and Futurama all immediately come to mind). Even here in Canada it’s not without precedent. Murdoch Mysteries survived cancellation through similar fan outcry when it was cancelled by City TV last year. The show was also a hit overseas, and the the CBC picked it up and aired its sixth season this January. It was so successful that it was picked up for a seventh season, and its episode order increased from 13 to 18. So, if you love the show, you’ve really got nothing to lose. Even if you’re not familiar with it, the show takes place and is shot in Toronto, and at the very least you will be helping to save the jobs of your fellow Torontonians.
[via Save Bomb Girls]
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Megan Patterson is the Science and Technology Editor at feminist geekery site Paper Droids and currently a Toronto Standard intern. She also tweets more than is healthy or wise.
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