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Sep. 16th, 2008

  • 9:32 AM

Good Morning everyone,

I have not posted here in a very long time. I had a lot of commitments and lots of overtime at work. I still try and find time to write the letters and emails to ABC & to go over and post some opinions on HN about October Road.
I wanted to write today because I am disappointed in ABC. I would like to know why they feel the need to promote game shows yet they never promoted October Road.
Yesterday ABC's Opportunity Knocks came to my home town to promote the show.  So I decided to go. I wore a Tshirt that said ABC bring October Road back. I live in a town that has about 45,000 people in it so I expected there would be alot of people there, they were having a cookout and giving away prizes, plus the local radio station and local TV station was there.
When I got there I was surprised because there was only about 150 people there. They had a stage set up & they had the family that they chose on the stage. They were asking them questions about each other and every time they got one right they would get a prize. You think that the people would be really excited. NO THEY WEREN'T!
So I guess what I am getting at is why is ABC promoting the show is it because this is a premonition as to what the show is going to be like?
Well I say to ABC open your eyes look around and see that NO-ONE wants more reality shows!
Look at what a great show you had in October Road, why didn't you promote that show? You could of taken a tour and had Octoberfest with pumpkins and apple cider and corn dogs.
Why can't TPTB at ABC see how much October Road means to us? We have been fighting for this show to come back for 6 months. The last episode was March 10th. Are we running out of things to talk about after 6 months? NO we are talking about it more and more as the months go by.
I know that ABC could find a time slot for October Road if they really wanted to.  Why don't they just go against what all the other networks are doing.
October Road was a show that had morals, is that what ABC is afraid of. Because there are not many shows on the air like that.
I think the thing that upsets me the most is that Stephen McPherson is the person who asked Scott Rosenberg to make a show out of the movie Beautiful Girls.  Which IMO Scott did an awesome job of giving us October Road. 
So ABC gives us the gift of October Road which lasted 2 seasons but you can't really say 2 seasons because 19 episodes is not even 1 season. Only to rip it away from all the loyal fans.
I know that I am  rambling but it really got to me last night when I went to that promotion.
ABC have heart and bring October Road back to us. Let the viewers decide what they want to watch. I know that I am sick of doctor & lawyers shows and forget about reality it does nothing for me.

October Road

  • Jul. 27th, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Well I haven't posted a blog in awhile. I have a lot of things going on in my life right now. I still try and get over to HN and post an opinion and comment. It has been hard getting there. I think to that one of the things that drives me crazy is when I see  that we have opinions with hardly any comments on them yet other opinions have alot. 
I know that it is hard to comment on some of the opinions left about October Road, especially if all the opinion says is Bring October Road back. I will try and leave a comment to those opinions and say something that I like about October Road. I try to leave a comment under every opinion because I feel if it is going to help us bring our numbers up then I am helping October Road in some way. I just wish that with all the reactions we get on one opinion that we would get half as many comments, just think how our numbers would go up.
I hope that I am not stepping on anyones toes by voicing my opinion in this way but that is the way I feel.
I still write my letters and my emails to ABC because I cannot and will not stop fighting for October Road because I believe in this show. 
I hope that everyone continues fighting for October Road because we need to have this show back in our lives. There are so many positive aspects to October Road and from what is being aired on the TV right now there is absolutely no comparison.
So I am going over to HN now as I haven't been there in about three days and I will post an opinion and try and comment on as many opinions as I can get to tonight. Right now it is 10:15 p.m. eastern time and I have to go to work early tomorrow.
Everyone have a great night and keep up the great work.
Good night Roadies!!!!
October Road Rocks!!!!

Jul. 13th, 2008

  • 7:27 PM
What goes on my fellow Roadies:
I haven't been on in awhile because I have been really busy between work and trying to get my two sons financial aid set for college.
As I was getting one of my son's aid set up, I started to think how we always say there are things that remind us of October Road. Well my older son is in his senior year of college and he is an English major, it made me think of Nick and how Nick is teaching at college. My son hopes to be able to write a book some day, so many similarities.
I have been getting over to HN and posting opinions when I can and I really try and comment under each opinion. We have been doing a good job of keeping October Road at the top, but we really need to have as many people as we can commenting. I think that if we all even comment on every other one with the amount of people that react we should have at least 10 comments under each opinon. 
I just got over to the most heartwrenching poll and we are within 180 of Jericho, that is fantastic.
I have to say that Meggan has been doing a good job of getting those press releases out, which is also a good thing, anything that will keep October Roads name out there.
I like the idea that a couple of people came up with for the shirts for October Road, and thanks to Tim we now have a place to order them.
The Roadies are such a great group of people, everyone is doing their part in fighting for October Road.
IMO, the fact that our message boards are still up, to me that is a good sign. I have to believe that Anne and Stephen have to be hearing what we are saying, just the fact alone that we have been sending in letters and postcards has to tell them something. I also know that when I sent an email to Stephen I got an automated email saying that he was out of the office and left his phone number.
Even though we have not heard any word at all, I will not stop fighting. This is the only show that I have ever fought for.  I am the kind of person that fights for what I want and the only thing I want right now is October Raod.

I am going to add all the links for the voting and HN and for the press releases.
 


Press releases:

http://www.prlog.org/10088602.html

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200807/1215906867.html

HN site:

/http://www.heynielsen.com/view/october-road-tv-series 


Poll:

http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

T shirts:

http://www.zazzle.com/pd/find/qs-october+road/pt-235

 

Information for our next mailing of postcards:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=411700

 

http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=411711

Our other October Road page please join:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/PAY_OCTOBER_ROAD_FORWARD/

Everyone have a great night.
Keep the Faith & Keep on fighting.

Hoo de Hoo Roadies!!!!!!


Maria

October Road

  • Jun. 27th, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Well it's Friday finally, It has been a very long week. I am missing October Road more and more. It seems that even though it's already been almost  4 months since the last show. The time is going by slowly. I know that even though we have all been fighting to get this show back on, I just get so frustrated sometimes. I don't want to watch any TV because I am so mad at ABC for cancelling October Road.  How can they not understand that they are pushing people away. Not everyone wants to watch Reality TV. I just saw the commercials for two of their new game shows and it made me sick to think that they could put that crap on and take off October Road.
I would really like to know how they make their decisions? I don't think that these Nielson boxes or whatever they use to determine what everyone is watching works.
Do they only see what these people watch? What about the rest of the population? Did they forget about us? I was going to watch the new show Hopkins last night but I decided against it because it is not something I would really enjoy.
What did ABC have against October Road? It never got the proper advertising. I remember when season one was going to start it had a lot of advertising then, because I watched Grey's and when I saw the commercials I thought that looks like a really good show. I couldn't wait to see it. And October Road didn't let me down. The other thing is why couldn't they rerun the episode the next night like they did with Grey's. So the people who missed it the first time would have a second chance to watch it.  
 
I sometimes think that they set it up to fail, though I'm not sure why. For the most part ABC is the only station I really watch and I have seen plenty of new shows come on and they always had a lot of advertising. 
I know that I am ranting and raving, I think that it finally caught up with me with all the fighting and not hearing anything. 
I am so disappointed in ABC. I think that the general public should have a say in what they want to watch.
Well even though I am kind of upset tonight I will still continue to fight. I will post an opinion and I will comment and react. I just hope that ABC comes to it's senses and realizes what a huge mistake they made in cancelling October Road. 
I will put the links in for everyone elses blogs and the places to go and post opinions and to vote.

http://www.heynielsen.com/view/october-road-tv-series/

http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

ttp://meggan-onhersoapbox.blogspot.com/

http://meggankofcali.livejournal.com/

http://amysshowsaver.blogspot.com/

http://sweetsteph23.livejournal.com/

http://www.myspace.com/mrsjeter223


Well have a good night everyone and keep on fighting!

October Road

  • Jun. 24th, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Good Morning to all the Roadies:

I have off from work today, so that is why I am writing my blog so early, it also gives me the chance to catch up and write my letters to Stephen and Anne, I know that I am late in sending them seeing I am in Connecticut, but I'm hoping if I get them in the mail early enough they will get there.

How awesome where the Roadies last night over on the HN board? We had 42 opinions. It makes me happy to see how many people still care about October Road that they are still fighting for the show after more than 3 months. 

In my letter to Stephen this time, I put how he was the one who saw something in this show because of the movie Beautiful Girls, that he was the one who brought us this show. So if he really liked this show and he went to Scott why would he not give it more of a chance?  I also told him how I am a member of Netflix and I have been trying for months to get the movie Beautiful Girls and it went from saying a very long wait to undetermined. So that has to say something for October Road.  How many people do you think would be looking for Beautiful Girls if it wasn't for October road.

I was watching the news last night on ABC and all the commercials were coming on for the two new shows that are premiering tonight. Wipeout and the Japanese game show, what I don't understand is why would ABC lower their standards to those kind of shows? In fact the other two shows I don't understand that are on are Wife Swap and Super Nanny. These shows just are showing real people making jackasses out of themselves. Is that all ABC wants?

What happened to the good shows the ones that show people being kind to each other and helping each other out?  I want a show that is easy to relate to, something that can happen in everyday life that is not over the top with nonsense. Why can't ABC see that yes, there are people who want to watch reality but there are also plenty of us that do not. Are they pushing us away from their station? If they don't want October Road on ABC, then put it on ABC Family it will make a good fit over there.   

Well, I am going to get started on my letters and seeing that I can't post an opinion until tonight, I will go over to HN later. 

Here are the links for everyone to click through:

 

http://meggan-onhersoapbox.blogspot.com/

http://meggankofcali.livejournal.com/

http://amysshowsaver.blogspot.com/

http://save-oct-road.livejournal.com/4600.html   avongal

http://debsoroadupdates.blogspot.com/   avongal/deb

http://kris509.livejournal.com/    kris509

http://sweetsteph23.livejournal.com/   ORsweetSteph

http://sweetali83.livejournal.com/5507.html

http://txoctroadgirl.livejournal.com/3682.html  Texasoctroadgirl/Pam

Let's also try and vote her as often as we can:


http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm


Okay everyone have a day filled with sunshine and thoughts of October Road!
I am thankful for all the friends I have made through the message boards all thanks to October Road.

Maria

OK so I am adding on to my blog that I wrote from this morning. You know how we were all saying that something everyday reminds you of October Road, well today I brought my mother to Mystic, Ct to an outdoor seafood place.  When we were leaving to come home we were detoured because of road work, as we were sitting in traffic I looked to the left of me and there was a Sully's bar and grille, I had a smile on my face from ear to ear and I was explaining to my mother about the show and how the bar in the show is Sully's, I took a picture with my phone but it wasn't close enough to see that Thursday nights are Karaoke nights. That absolutely made my day. Ok that's it I just had to share that. 

Maria

October Road

  • Jun. 21st, 2008 at 9:31 PM
October Road, what a great show. Today I thought I would give myself a day of leisure, so I decided to sit in the sun. Well I hooked up my Ipod to the speakers and was listening to music. Most of the music I have on there is from October Road. It was so nice just sitting there and listening and everytime a song came on it would remind me of a certain episode.

So of course after I came in from the sun, I decided to watch a couple of episodes of October Road.  I decided to watch Deck the Howls and How to Kiss Hello.  No matter how many times I watch one of the episodes I always enjoy it. 
 

In Deck the Howls, there are so many great moments, when Janet gives Eddie his present and at first he is upset because he said he wasn't ready for another dog, then it was funny because Janet actually gave him a wolf. And how wonderful was it when he gave her the bracelet with her initials on it. Those are the moments that make a show. Then he asked her if she wanted to plow the streets with him and she said that's exactly how I want to spend my Christmas Eve. 

And the other great moment for me in that episode when Hannah is walking down the street and she runs into Nick and she asks him if he's ok and he says no, then he tells her what he just learned about the time his mother died and you could see that she was genuinely concerned for him. Then the carolers come by and say heres our next victim and Nick and Hannah are looking at each other questioningly, you know that they both want to kiss but neither one of them want to be the first to go for the kiss. Then they both look kinda sad and shake their heads. I so wanted them to kiss. 

I could go on and on about this wonderful show. There are so many great moments whether  they make you laugh, cry, be sad or happy it's all good.

The one thing I do know is that we have to keep on fighting for this show, we have to let ABC know that we are not giving up, We are Roadies and we believe in what we are doing. I'm not quite sure what is going on over at the boards but someone is messing with our posts.

So all the Roadies have to make sure that they are signed up at the October Road Yahoo page. Let's all continue with the great effort that every single Roadie has been doing. We have a great group here, when one person can't do something, someone else will step in.

Here is the link to the Yahoo page:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/PAY_OCTOBER_ROAD_FORWARD/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1

KEEP ROCKING ROADIES!!!!!!

Don't forget to go over to HN and post an opinion and do some commenting as well.
Have a good night guys.

October Road

  • Jun. 19th, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Hey Roadies,
How is everyone tonight, I would first like to say that I hope all my fellow Roadies who live in the states that are being flooded are ok. I know that it must be tough on everyone.

So. today I was sitting and thinking of how else we could get through to ABC and let them hear what we are saying. I know how much we all love October Road but I don't know if ABC knows. 

To me October Road is a one of a kind show that brings so much joy and entertainment to millions of fans. It has so much to offer you, you have all the great relationships some that are just starting out and some that have been going on for awhile. October Road has great music, some of the music is from the 80's how can you get better than the 80's.

Today I was rewatching Forever Until Now, and no matter how many times I see the part with Nick and Hannah walking down to Sam's room, I still cry. Not because I am completely sad but because it is such an awesome scene. 

October Road, you can't get any better. I have never felt like this about a show before. I miss watching it. The thing is you can't compare this show to any other show. It is more realistic than the actual reality shows. I want to watch a good drama that I can relate too, something that you say to yourself I did that or I can see myself doing that. 

So what do you say ABC, please give it another chance, I know that I want to be able to watch a show that I can get in to. I don't want to be searching for a show and knowing that I will not find anything that compares to October Road.

I will leave the links below again so you can check out the message boards and see what you can do to help.

Thanks again
your fellow Roadie Maria


http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338

also here are the links to most of the other Roadies blogs

http://sweetsteph23.livejournal.com/

www.myspace.com/mrsjeter223

http://meggankofcali.livejournal.com/

http://meggan-onhersoapbox.blogspot.com/

http://amysshowsaver.blogspot.com/
 
 http://writerrae.typepad.com/my_weblog
/

http://blogs.abc.com/livefromla/2008/05/abcs-fall-sched.html


 

October Road

  • Jun. 18th, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Hi to all my fellow Roadies, I would like to say thank you for all the comments on my blog yesterday.  I have been reading alot of the opinions on October Road over at HN, some of the opinions are so good. They all talk about how much October Road means to them and how great all the characters are.  I know that I really miss watching October Road and seeing a new episode.  I hope that the big people over at ABC are seeing just how much October Road means to us.  I know that alot of other people are fighting to get their shows back to but for most of them their shows were on up until a couple of weeks ago. When you really stop and think about it October Road has been off the air for 14 weeks now and we are still going strong in our fight as if it was only yesterday that the last episode aired.
So as a proud Roadie, I want to say to ABC, you haven't seen the last of us. We have been gaining new viewers all the time. I am totally amazed when I am on HN or the message boards and new names keep popping up. I also am amazed at how many people still do not know that October Road was cancelled.
Well as always I am going to leave the link for the message boards so you can go and read all that is going on. I am also going to leave the links for all the other Roadies who have blogs so you can go and read their blogs also. 

http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338


http://sweetsteph23.livejournal.com/

www.myspace.com/mrsjeter223

http://meggankofcali.livejournal.com/

http://meggan-onhersoapbox.blogspot.com/

http://amysshowsaver.blogspot.com/

http://writerrae.typepad.com/my_weblog/

http://blogs.abc.com/livefromla/2008/05/abcs-fall-sched.html

Well everyone have  a good night and remember to write your letters and emails. Call ABC and let them know exactly how you feel about the cancellation of October Road.

Have a great night!!!!
October Road Rocks!!!!!

October Road

  • Jun. 17th, 2008 at 7:04 PM
I have written my letter to Ellen today about October Road.  I really hope that she will help out and get the word out about October Road.

Last night, I had nothing to watch on TV, so I started to watch Season one of October Road again. It is such a good show, the more I watch it the more I can't understand why they would cancel the show. 

I know that we have to keep on fighting for October Road, we have to let ABC know that we are not backing down.  I know when I want something bad enough I will fight until I get it.
I would also like to thank all the Roadies who are fighting so hard for October Road, I know how much we all believe in this show.  It was also so nice to hear from Rebecca over on the message boards the other day. It really lifts your spirits and makes you want to fight harder, because they are all such wonderful people.

Well I am going to head over to HN and post a opinion and do some commenting.
Hope everyone has a good night and keep the faith Roadies!!!!!

Here is the link to go over to the boards to find out all kinds of information on how you can help in the fight for October Road.


 http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=381604

October Road

  • Jun. 16th, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Hi everyone:
Well it is Monday and I am sitting here wondering what I am going to watch on TV tonight since there is no October Road on.  It has been 14 weeks with no October Road. I miss the show because it was the only show on that was honest and heartwarming. I loved all the characters in the show and all the different relationships they had.
I'm still confused as to why ABC would cancel a show that is as good as October Road. I know that we were called a cult following, which to me means that we have alot of fans who love this show. 
I wish that ABC would reconsider and put October Road back on because it already has the following of many fans. The only thing that ABC would have to do is to put it on at a good time and good day. Which when it was on Thursday nights after Grey's it had good ratings.
ABC would just have to advertise more to let everyone know when it was on. We the Roadies have done a lot of advertising ourselves with Pay October Road Forward. We donated many season one DVDs. When season two comes out we will do the same thing.
So, ABC give us a break and bring this show back to us. We have been fighting for a long time. 
To my fellow Roadies keep up the good work and have faith.

Maria

 

October Road

  • Jun. 16th, 2008 at 12:04 AM
It has been a crazy week, first we had the heat wave, and because it was so hot we were having pretty crazy thunderstorms as well. I have been trying to do as much as I could this week for October Road, I made sure that I mailed my letters out in time so they will hopefully arrive on the 17th. I also have been on HN posting my opinions and then commenting and reacting on everyone else's opinions, my real gripe over at HN are the trolls. Really what is their problem, I know that everyone is entitled to their own opinions but when you have the trolls just reacting to every single opinion on our site with a negative. It really just pisses me off. I would never stoop to their level because I am more interested in making sure that October Road has the numbers to stay on top. I just don't get them, why don't they just go to their shows and post some opinions because if you look at their profiles  most of them don't do any opinions they just react, they are hateful people. Sorry that I am ranting it justs makes me mad.
Well I know that tommorow night I will get my emails ready to mail out to Stephen and Anne, plus I will continue to make my phone calls. I try and call at least once every day to let them know of my disappointment over the cancellation.
Ok, I am going to check over at HN once more. 
Keep up the good work Roadies.
I know that we can do this.
We all want our October Road back.
Good night everyone.
 

October Road

  • Jun. 12th, 2008 at 9:20 PM

Hi to all my fellow roadies out there.

I wanted to share the letter my son wrote in defense of October Road, it's kind of long.

Although I write to you as a Yankee fan, and generally find myself disagreeable towards any Red Sox fan, I ask you to bring back the show "October Road" even though it is pro Red Sox. Over only 19 episodes I had the chance to get to know the lives of at least 12 different characters in a setting akin to my own. With the exception of the show, "Gilmore Girls", no other show portrays New England as well as "October Road" and to be honest I don't even enjoy "Gilmore Girls". Also, from viewing the message boards, it is obvious a cult following is growing on the internet that can't be ignored. They've even adopted a nickname (Roadies) usually suited for the cults of sci-fi shows (trekkie, x-phile). A following like this cannot be ignored. I implore you not to make the same mistake, that had been made for shows like "freaks and Geeks" or "Family Guy". Which I'm sure some exec currently regrets cancelling. One only needs to look at the current success of "Family Guy" to realize prematurely cancelling a show can be a huge mistake. I would truely appreciate it if you took the time and reconsidered the cancellation of "October Road". I can honestly claim that ratings for sure will go up and there is money to be made. Take me for example I never watched a show on air, but a faithful "Roadie" introduced me to the show. Now I own all the episodes on itunes, am a member of the message boards myself, and I am writing this letter to you. If you could see that this is the mission for every "Roadie" (and the numbers keep on growing), then you can know that there will be a jump in ratings and sales if you were to decide to bring this show back on air for a third full season. I can assure you again and again you would not be making a mistake.


So I hope that all the Roadies are again writing their letters to arrive on Tuesday. I have everyone writing their letters for me again.
Keep up the good work and have faith.

Here is the link I left you yesterday with all the information for saving this show:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=346097

October Road

  • Jun. 10th, 2008 at 8:15 PM
 Well today is the day that we have all been waiting for, we have written and emailed and called to save our show October Road. I really hope that we hear if we made an impact.  I am now starting to write my letters for next week when we all send them in to arrive on the 17th. For today I sent in 3 letters & 4 postcards, I had my sister write 2 letters and my son wrote 2 letters. I also emailed them 4 times twice each to Stephen and Anne. Next week I am going to do the same and I finally talked my other son into writing some letters for me, I think that he is just tired of listening to me. But that's ok anything to help October Road I will do.
I hope that they read at least some of the letters and see how much October Road means to us and how dedicated we are.
So I am going to go over to HN, it's getting time for me to do an opinion and I want to comment and react.
I left one link that one of our Roadies Meggan did for us, it basically has everything you need to help us in the fight for October Road.
Thanks Meggan

http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=346097


Roadies keep the faith and we will suceed.
 

October Road

  • Jun. 9th, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Hello to all the Roadies out there:

Well tomorrow is the big day for October Road, everyone has written their letters and sent them in. We coordinated the letters to arrive on June 10th which is three months from the last episode. We also will be sending emails between tonight and tomorrow so that when Stephen and Anne get to their offices they will have full email boxes also.  And the other thing is we will make phone calls to them. We want them to know at ABC that we are not going away. We love October Road and we want it to be in the lineup.
We have been fighting for October Road since before they announced that is was cancelled, we are very dedicated fans. We have our campaign Pay October Road forward which has brought in new viewers. 
ABC has to see that even though the season finale was three months ago, we are still talking about October Road.
It is too good of a show to let go. So once again I will put in all the links so everyone can go and vote and comment and write opinions. Or email them tonight and give them a call let them know how much this show means to you. 

email here
 Stephen.Mcpherson@abc.com                Anne.x.Sweeney@abc.com       

call

Phone number 1-818-460-7477

This is an automated system, Press 2, then press 3, ext 399

mail snail letters here

Mr. Stephen McPherson

President-ABC Entertainment

500 S. Buena Vista St.

Burbank, CA 91521-4551

 

Ms. Anne Sweeney

President-Disney/ABC Television Group

3800 W. Alameda Ave.  Room 504

Burbank, CA 91505-4300

vote here

http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

 http://buzzsugar.com/1623888

http://www.sidereel.com/_post/8845

leave opinions and comments here 

http://www.heynielsen.com/view/october-road-tv-series/   


Okay lets all get to work we have a long night and day ahead of us. We need to keep the faith.

Roadies Unite!!!!!

October Road

  • Jun. 8th, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Well it's been a really crazy day here in Connecticut, first we have this humid weather, so bad that  you can't breathe.  So it has been making my computer crazy all day. I have been over on October Road message boards and I have been trying to vote at about.com but my dsl keeps shutting off and the I have to reboot the computer, I am so frustrated right now.
So the ML fans found out about this poll and they have been voting consistently and right now they are at 21% and we are at 55%. 
I am trying to vote as often as I can, but with this computer today it is hard. I hope that we have all the Roadies out there voting too.
Well tommorow is Monday and it is going to be another sad day without October Road. So to make up for not having this awesome show, I will be calling and emailing along with all the other Roadies tommorow night so that the right people at ABC will have nice full boxes on Tuesday morning. 
They have to know that we are not going away and that we mean business when it comes to October Road.
So I will leave the links below again so you can go and vote and leave opinions and I will leave the email addresses so you can also email.

vote and leave opinion

http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

 vote and leave comment

http://www.sidereel.com/_post/8845

leave opinion and comments

 http://www.heynielsen.com/view/october-road-tv-series/

email

   Anne.x.Sweeney@abc.com 



Stephen.Mcpherson@abc.com                  


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Phone number 1-818-460-7477

This is an automated system, Press 2, then press 3, ext 399

I think I got most of the links in here if not I know that my fellow Roadies will also leave links in their blogs.
So lets keep the faith and do all we can.

October Road Rocks!!!!!!!

October Road

  • Jun. 7th, 2008 at 4:50 PM

Good Afternoon everyone,
Well today is a good day. My yankees came back to win the game in the bottom of the ninth inning. Johnny Damon one of my favorite players went 6 for 6. 
Now I hope that my favorite show October Road can come back to win in the ninth inning. I feel like we are going to be given another chance, even though there was an article on Korbi saying that is was only going to be a 15 minute wrap up. 
We the Roadies are united in the fact that we all want this show back, we have been fighting for three months since the last show was on the air. We continuosly are advertising this show ourselves and gaining new viewers with our Pay October Road forward campaign. 
We have been writing letters and postcards, we go and vote on various sites and we are HN to keep our show at the top and out front and center.
We are letting ABC know that we are not forgetting this show and we are not giving up.
We also have another campaign to flood ABC especially Stephen McPherson and Anne Sweeney with letters and postcards on the 10th. We will also send emails in to their email boxes on the 10th.
So come out and help us in this campaign, come over to the message boards and read all the wonderful things everyone has to say about the show. I will add the links to the bottom.

This is the link to the message boards:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338

This is the link to the poll to vote:
http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

This is the link to HN to go and put opinions and comment:
 http://www.heynielsen.com/view/october-road-tv-series



So let's get to work on saving the best show ever!!!!
Peace out!!!!!


October Road

  • Jun. 6th, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Well today I wrote my letters to send in to Steve McPherson and Anne Sweeney. I wrote three letters and four postcards.  I am really excited about this letter writing campaign. I would love to see what the impact is going to be.
I also got my sister to write a letter and she put in her letter that she was part of the Pay October Road forward campaign.  She wrote to both of them.  I finally talked my son into writing a letter, He does watch the show with his girlfriend. He just thinks that I crazy. But he did say that  he would do that for me.
 
I am going to continue to vote  and write letters and post comments. I really do want this show to come back.
I hope that ABC is seeing the effort that the Roadies are putting forth.
I am going to post the links to the letter writing and the poll from Rachel. Please go to the poll to vote and try and put some comments over at HN.
Have a great night.

http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

 http://www.heynielsen.com/view/october-road-tv-series/

http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=368645


October Road

  • Jun. 5th, 2008 at 7:23 PM

Hi to all my fellow Roadies:

Well today is a good day, it's nice outside and it's almost Friday. I can't wait for the weekend. I  was reading over on the boards a little while ago how people hear songs on the radio or someone mentions something and it reminds them of October Road. Well today after work I went to the AT&T store because I broke my cell phone in the beginning of the week. As I was being waited on the sales people were all talking they were mostly guys and one of them was going to give the customer they were working on to another sales rep because it was time for them to go home. The sales rep said are you going to pay it forward. I  was thinking how funny because it reminded me of October Road and at the same time I was thinking I had to get home to write letters. I did mention October Road to them and none of them heard of it, they also didn't seem to interested. Oh well, it would of been nice if I could of told them about the show.
Well I am anxiously waiting to see if we get any more press on our letter writing. I did see the poll from Rachel and I have voted, it's nice to see that we are way ahead. 
I am going to go over to the HN site and do some commenting I did read that we had some trolls and it looks like they are from ML. and one of them is from MIT, it's too bad when one person has to just ruin things because they think it will make them look better.
I am going to leave the two links here for the letter campaign and for the poll. Please go over and do some commenting and vote for October Road on the poll. Thanks Roadies/

http://tvdramas.about.com/b/2008/06/04/what-was-the-most-heart-wrenching-cancellation-of-the-season.htm

The link above is for the poll.


http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=368645

The link above is about the letter writing campaign.

You can also call ABC and leave a message about October Road 
the number is     1-818-460-7477     press 2   then  3   and the 399 to leave a message and don't forget to say it's for October Road.
Well have a good night everyone see you over at the boards.

Maria

October Road

  • Jun. 4th, 2008 at 9:18 PM
October Road is such an awesome show. I really am missing watching the show on Monday nights.  I have been writing letters to ABC along with all the other Roadies.
Yesterday Avongal came up with the idea for all the Roadies to write letters and basically send them out at the same time so they all arrive on June 10th which is three months since the last show was on.
ABC has to see that we are still going strong with our fight to bring October Road back on the air. 
I have even convinced my son and his girlfriend to write letters to send in for the 10th, they both watched the show with me, but they tell me that they are not as crazy as I am with everything I am doing, but they are also young and never really home. The only time I really got to be with the two of them was on Monday nights for October Road. So they told me that they will write a letter when I told them that every little bit will help. I hope that ABC will see how dedicated we are to our show and bring it back to us. So here is the link to the article about the letter campaign, I hope that we get everyone to contribute.

 http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=mb&cat=41338&tid=368645

Well back over to HN to do some commenting.
Have a good night.

Keep the faith Roadies!!!!!!

October Road

  • May. 28th, 2008 at 8:51 PM
October Road is such a phenomenal show. Today at work I was talking to a fellow employee and we were discussing TV and how there is never anything good to watch.
I started to tell her about October Road and found out that she also likes the show. I said how we have been fighting to try and get the show back on the air. 
We also discussed how some of the things that are on TV now, never would of been seen on television even five years ago. 
Where has all the quality shows gone?  I don't know why they would keep reality shows on, they only show people making complete fools of themselves. 
I used to watch the Bachelor from time to time but when all you saw was 25 girls getting drunk and making themselves look foolish, I stopped watching.
There are also numerous other reality shows that make people look stupid.  I know that some reality isn't bad.
But I want to sit and watch a show that is more like reality than actual reality shows, a show that you can relate to. You have some of the same problems that they do. Plus in October Road you have families and friends that are kind and respectful of each other.
That is what we need in today's society a show like October Road that shows you right from wrong and how to be kind and respectful. 
So ABC, take a chance and reconsider, listen to my fellow Roadies Idea of 6 more episodes and grow from there. 
I know that you won't be sorry. Don't you want to have a show on your network that everyone is saying is a show that teaches you good things? I know that I would.