ABC viewers petition to #SaveDrBlake
Star Craig McLachlan has also expressed his disappointment at ABC axing hit drama.
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Irate fans of The Doctor Blake Mysteries are hoping a petition to save the show from ending will be as successful as the campaign that rescued A Place to Call Home.
Change.org petition, started by fan Kylie Ferguson, has over 6,5oo signatures.
“…..the entire Doctor Blake fandom, known as #BlakeArmy to many, has been left shell-shocked, devastated and many rather angry about the ABC’s shock decision to cancel the show after the upcoming 5th season, to be aired later this year,” she writes.
A second petition, by TV Tonight reader Lyn Belcher, has some 600 signatures.
Meanwhile star Craig McLachlan has indicated he is disappointed the show is wrapping with a telemovie, rather than proceeding to a sixth season.
“Friends, my glorious crew and I were ready to rock …what does that tell ya?” he wrote on social media. “There really is no business quite like show business.”
At the time of its axing, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, remains ABC’s highest-rating local drama.
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Seems like the perfect Foxtel commission. Older viewers and all…
Only a stupid person would shoot their prize pig while its still winning ribbons. But apparently the ABC has some very odd people in their management midst.
well why not petition. Look when A place called home got the flick. People were annoyed and started a petition, now its going great.
Hmmmm, popular ABC show at peak of powers gets the unexpected shock-chop with an ‘official’ very sanitised statement from the producers is issued quickly followed by ‘WTF?!’ tweets from insiders? This sounds alarmingly familiar *coughGoodGamecough*.
It could have been cast contracts and schedules too. Craig is now doing Wrong Girl and a few other things
He does TWD when he isn’t doing Dr. Blake, just as Jessica Marais does TWD and Love Child.
Craig plays a zombie outside of Dr Blake? Haha
Ha. Make that TWG.
There’s a few co productions keeping popular shows going, examples can be seen coming from Norway, Sweden and France, though the use of tax credit plays a major role as it does in the USA, with a fair bit of it’s TV production done in Canada.
Home and Away was saved by the UK which bankrolled the show,
Though not a fan this show has good production values, so if it’s worth saving the ABC and it’s producers should stop looking for tax funding and become sales people instead, offer a deal to Foxtel for worldwide distribution.
Seven bankrolls H&A, UK merely licenses it. The show was not at risk of being axed, per se.
All the ABC will say its a funding issue as always ?
Very disappointing. Definitely had a few more good seasons left in it.
To anyone who loves this show: Please sign the Petitions. Thanks.
Thank you David for this story. 🙂
How sad to see such a great Australian show go. I hope the petition gets thousands and they change their minds.