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With so many different campaigns going to save shows recently it could almost be a weekly feature here, and here is yet another for you to consider. I bring this one up partly out of a selfish desire to see it succeed, because The Dresden Files has become my second favorite Sci Fi Original, but also because I think it actually has a shot at working.

There is a bunch of helpful info over at the group's main site. They have a letter writing campaign where if you email your letter to Dresden fan Belynda she will print it out and mail it for you, email and phone contact info for Sci Fi, links to a petition, and a host of other options for you to help out.

Every time a television show with even a moderate fan base gets cancelled, a petition soon follows. Usually fans opt to use petitiononline.com. Other times they may just solicit "signatures" via their own blog's comments, or perhaps ask other fans to snail-mail the studios with postcards.

Do these online petitions work? Do the studios see these petitions, some with tens of thousands of signatures, and think, "wow, you know what? Forget what we said about this show being cancelled -- there's a whole 25,000 people out there we'll disappoint real bad if we cancel now!"

Does anyone have a success story to tell us, one that might give hope to these petition organizers? And how about you studio folks out there -- do these petitions make you think twice about cancelling a show, or are they a sad waste of time?