Posted on 07/02/2015 11:34:34 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
Upset over its abrupt cancellation, “Dukes of Hazzard” fans are demanding the corporate parent of TVLand immediately restore the iconic program to its daily schedule.
Supporters of the show have been flocking to the “Stop Banning Dukes of Hazzard” Change.org petition, with signatures increasing at a rate of thousands per hour. In just an hour of monitoring its progress, the Media Equalizer watched its total number rise from 25,000 to 33,000, already close to reaching its stated goal of 35,000. (1:33pm update: total over 40,000)
It was initiated by Donald Covell of Coldwater, Michigan, who said in the description that “‘The Dukes’ was about family values, fighting corruption, helping friends, neighbors and even strangers, no matter what color they were. There were multiple episodes where they helped people of colors other than ‘white’, and it even had a black sheriff that appeared often, who was respected and feared more then the sheriff of Hazzard.”
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Yeah, I know about him. I believe Will Geer was a pretty far-out leftist too. But I think the show is generally positive, and I like “Grandpa” the character, so I suspend thinking about that for an hour. That’s one of the reasons I don’t care to know much about what most entertainers are like as people. A pretty trashy and weird bunch.
That better not happen. I love Hogan’s Heroes.
It’s a silly show, but it would be even sillier if they replayed it with a fuzzy rectangle blurring the flag on the General Lee’s roof, like you’d fuzz out a breast or a genital in a non-XXX film.
TVland is a crap channel anyhow - they actually schedule some of their thirty minute programs in forty minute slots and fill the extra time with six or seven minute slugs of commercials - no matter how much I like the show I tune out when I see it’s playing under those conditions - but I will happily sign the petition.....
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