Now, Sci-Fi Channel is more or less a lost cause, but if you really want to POLITELY give them a piece of your mind, you can nicely ask them to keep the show at the addresses and numbers below. Save the more hard-edged invective for the end of the year, after the final episodes have aired. For now, just sweetly tell them there's nothing else on their channel really worth watching, and that you intend, upon MST's disappearance to drop their channel and encourage your cable/satellite provider to add something like Fox News Channel.
Bonnie Hammer Senior Vice President Sci-Fi Channel Programming 1230 Avenue of the Americas, Fl 20 New York, NY 10020 FAX: (212) 413-5631 SFC phone: (212) 408-9100 programming@www.scifi.com feedback@www.scifi.com
New York Observer columnist Ron Rosenbaum is advocating a personal appeal to Barry Diller, new head honcho at USA Networks:
Barry Diller USA Networks Inc. 152 West 57th St., 42nd floor New York, N.Y. 10019
E! Entertainment Television was said to have made overtures toward Best Brains the last time they were junked by a major cable outlet. Who knows, they may be interested again. Make sure to email friend of the show, Talk Soup's John Henson, at johnh@eonline.com and tell him to take the campaign to the cablewaves.
E! Entertainment Television 5670 WILSHIRE BLVD LOS ANGELES CA 90036 television@eonline.com PHONE: 323-954-2400 NYC PHONE: (212) 852-5100
Turner Networks
1010 Techwood Dr., NW
Atlanta GA 30318
TNT email: tnt@turner.com
TNT Comment line: (404) 885-4538
Another TNT number: (404) 885-0339
TNT New York: (212) 714-7972
TBS email: superstation.tbs@turner.com
TBS phone: (404) 827-1700
(404) 827-1717
TBS L.A. : (310) 553-0350
Bravo is a very fine cable channel full of offbeat programming. Ask them if they would be interested.
Sandy Salerno Customer Service Coordinator Bravo 1111 Stewart Avenue Bethpage, NY 11714 (516) 396-4595 programming@bravotv.com
American Movie Classics, AMC, has a film library full of movies suitable for the Mystery Science Theater treatment. (And like Bravo, AMC is owned by the cable/sports ConGlomCo Cablevision.)
American Movie Classics 1111 Stewart Avenue Bethpage, NY 11714 (516) 364-1160 L.A. phone: (310) 453-4493 info@amctv.comAMC sez: Thank you for your interest in AMC. Your request for ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' has been forwarded to the AMC Acquisitions Department. Thank you for watching American Movie Classics.
UPN could frankly use a replacement for that dreadful "Sci-Fi Movie night" they have on Thursdays:
United Paramount Network 11800 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025 (310) 575-7000 feedback@upn.com
Everyone knows Mystery Science Theater 3000 is both Art and Entertainment of the highest order. Ask the good folks at A&E if maybe they can squeeze in some Minnesotan mocking between Lovejoy reruns.
A & E Television Network 235 East 45th St Fl 9 New York, NY 10017 (212) 210-1400 http://www.aetv.com/feedback/other.feedback.html
The WB Network is another small broadcast network, like UPN, that should consider adding MST to their schedule:
The WB Network 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. #34R Burbank, CA. 91522 Fax: 818-954-6479 phone: (818)977-5000 Chicago phone: (312) 440-9696
Rupert Murdoch and Pat Robertson had a baby, and they named it Fox Family Channel. MST3000 is fun for all ages, like Mr. Bean and some of the other stuff on the channel.
Fox Family Channel 10960 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024 1-877-98-FAMILY comments@foxfamilychannel.com
fX is another NewsCorp-affiliated cable outlet that could frankly use a bit more original programming:
fX Programming Fox Liberty Network 2121 Avenue Of The Stars Los Angeles, CA 90025 (310) 444-8123
Chicago-based WGN isn't quite the SUPERSTATION that WTBS is, but they've got holes to fill since they dumped the WB from their national feed. If they're looking for original programming to justify satellite bandwidth, they should take a look at MST:
2501 W Bradley Pl Chicago, IL 60618-4701 (773) 528-2311
Finally, do realize that BBI's archenemy Doug Herzog has left Comedy Central. They haven't picked a new head honcho yet, so I would not send them any epistles at this point. But among the people seriously being considered for the spot are South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Maybe they would want the show back, who knows?
Comedy Central 1775 Broadway 9th Fl New York, NY 10019
You may want to include contact info for the Brains in your letters. Here it is.
Best Brains Inc. 7615 Golden Triangle Drive, #J Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344 Phone: (612) 941-8024 Fax: (612) 941-8250
Please don't abuse this information by harrassing the Brains with needless phone calls. You can email them at barbbb@aol.com
And that's about it, for now anyway. If you want to contact your cable provider and get them to lean on SFC or something (again, I'd recommend waiting until after the season has its course). For now, you can dig through this few-year-old list or try Bravo's cablefinder thing.