This documentary proves that people in fandoms, people who get emotionally invested in a tv series or a character, can make a difference. I had no idea so many shows I loved were saved because of these amazingly devoted fans writing letters, buying Subway sandwiches, and mailing in 50,000 pounds of peanuts to CBS. WATCH THIS!
Okay, so I started watching Cagney & Lacey after my friend @curiousdamage got me into it. I was intrigued by Martin Kove's Victor Isbecki. He starts out very much the womanizing, sexist cop, but develops over the series, engaged to a slightly older woman who is a teacher and a mom. I decided that I wanted to write a story where he learns that an ex-girlfriend was murdered and had his child. He raises the daughter with help from his coworkers.
After I got into some planning stages, I only wrote maybe two sentences before it got put on the backburner.
Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media, a far-right adjunct of the Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, and other likeminded lunatics, denounced Cagney and Lacey for its criticism of Apartheid South Africa.