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‘LAS VEGAS’ FANS SENDING BABY BOOTIES TO NBC

 

LOS ANGELES, CA-- February 28, 2008 ­— Nearly two weeks after the cancellation of the NBC show “Las Vegas,” fans are demanding a proper conclusion to the show by sending thousands of baby booties to NBC executives in response to the many unanswered questions to the shows ending.

 

In the series finale, titled “Three Weddings and a Funeral,” fans were left wondering about the outcome of Josh Duhamel and Molly Simms characters baby and about the unsure future of Tom Selleck’s characters’ ownership fight for the fictional casino the “Montecito.”

 

Shortly after NBC decided to cancel “Las Vegas,” fans launched “Save Las Vegas: Operation Baby Booties,” in reference to Duhamel and Simms child. Since the decision to cancel the show, the website is averaging 700,000 hits a day and has had 9 million hits during the month of February.  

 

“The goal of the campaign is simply to get NBC to give us an ending to the series,” said Allison Jenkins, who is organizing the operation. “We’ve watched ‘Las Vegas’ for five years, they owe it to fans to end the show properly and not on a pivotal cliffhanger. People are really tired of watching NBC shows only to see them cancelled in this way. If they want people to watch their shows, especially long running ones to the end, then they need to restore a little more faith with viewers.”

 

“Las Vegas” creator, Gary Scott Thompson attributes the disappointing ending to the 2008 Writers Guild of America Strike. “The strike did us in,” Thompson said in a Q&A with TV Guide. “We had three more episodes to shoot for the season, which we didn’t get done. And the ‘To be continued …’ was actually supposed to be the first part of a two-parter. But that’s as far as we got.”

 

“Save Las Vegas: Operation Baby Booties” has received over $2,000 in contributions in less than a week. The operation also has nearly 6,000 signatures and over 2,000 registered members who contribute to the websites forums with a majority of these members shipping baby booties to NBC.