Rueben's Ramblings

When your favorite guilty pleasure show is canceled, what do you do? If you are anything like the fans of the first-run syndicated series Legend of the Seeker that aired for two seasons from 2008 to 2010, you participate in the year-long fan effort to revive the show.

For those unaware of Legend of the Seeker, the series was based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind that followed the epic journeys of a young woods guide named Richard Cypher (Australian actor Craig Horner), a mysterious woman named Kahlan Amnell (American actress Bridget Regan), a wizard named Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander (New Zealand actor Bruce Spence), and a warrior named Cara (Australian actress Tabrett Bethell) as they defend against tyranny and destruction. Image a weekly TV series that was a mixture of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises.

The series was distributed in the United States by Disney-ABC Domestic Television with ABC Studios producing the series, making Legend of the Seeker their first venture into broadcast syndication. ABC Studios funded the project with the Tribune Company acting as the launch group for broadcast to syndication markets throughout the country and abroad. Unfortunately, near the end of the show’s second season Tribune decided not to purchase distribution rights for season 3.

Because the show garnered an average of 2.5 million viewers on a weekly basis in the US, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition and aired in over 60 international markets, fans decided to band together to fight for the show’s future. Over the course of the last year, the members of SaveOurSeeker.com have raised over $35,000 to promote the show in the following ways:

• Ads in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter;
• Donating 300 Season 1 and Season 2 DVD’s of the show to public libraries in the US and Canada;
• Placing a bus shelter ad in Burbank, California;
• Doing iTunes episode giveaways at Comic Con, DragonCon and NY Comic Con; and,
• Placing online banner ads on Facebook and Google.

While most TV campaigns are an uphill battle because it is difficult to convince any distributor or studio to continue with a canceled show, the members of SaveOurSeeker.com are dedicated to their cause.

If you would like to get involved in the fan efforts to save the TV series Legend of the Seeker, please contact them via email at contact@saveourseeker.com and/or visit their website here.