#RenewTheExorcist

Oh, hey. It’s been nearly a month since the cancelation, and we aren’t going anywhere. :)

Despite our thoughts based on the original launch post for this campaign, we’ve decided to focus only on the Big 3 as much as possible from week to week (Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix) given the fact that The Exorcist is a perfect fit for a streaming service. Also, we’ve heard through the grapevine that some of the wonderful creators of the show are pitching it to Amazon. So this week, we are focusing on AMAZON PRIME once more.

As with last week, @cutiesonthehorizon ‘s #SaveTheExorcist 10 Commandments to guide your posts.

Feel free to reference this throughout each campaign week!

We will be doing a concentrated Tweetathon and Social Campaign on Saturday, June 9, from 5pm to 7pm EST. For those two hours, you can:

Tweet @PrimeVideo using UP TO TWO HASHTAGS ONLY: #SaveTheExorcist and #PrimeSaveTheExorcist. Talk about why it would be a good idea for Prime to pick up the show. You might mention that it’s a perfect show for streaming services, given each season is a complete arc that can basically stand on its own.

As usual, speak to what you love about the show–writing, acting, editing, cinematography–go nuts!

If you can’t tweet live, schedule all your tweets on apps like Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Runlater, etc between 5pm and 7pm EST.

Email Amazon Prime support directly.

Play the Exorcist Twitter question game, using the hashtags and tagging Amazon Prime.

Share your art about The Exorcist (essays, blog posts, drawings, etc), tagging and hashtagging the same!

MAKE SURE TO TAG @PRIMEVIDEO IN ALL YOUR TWEETS!

Remember—you can do all this throughout the week too! But we want a concentrated use of hashtags and getting Prime’s attention between the hours of 5pm and 7pm so we can make the most impact!

Thank you so much for continuing to be a part of the Congregation and working hard for our show! The creators have seen our hard work, and I know it’s appreciated!

WEEK 3: NETFLIX!

Hi, everyone!

We’re changing things up a bit this week! Please see the lovely @cutiesonthehorizon ‘s #SaveTheExorcist 10 Commandments:

Feel free to reference this throughout each campaign week!

This week, we are focusing on NETFLIX!

Instead of Wednesday, we will be doing a concentrated Tweetathon and Social Campaign on Saturday, June 2, from 5pm to 7pm EST. For those two hours, you can:

Tweet @Netflix using UP TO TWO HASHTAGS ONLY: #SaveTheExorcist and #NetflixSaveTheExorcist. Talk about why it would be a good idea for Netflix to pick up the show. You might mention that it’s just another of Alfonso’s incredible shows (the other being Sense8, which was of course picked up for a finale due to the hard work of its fans).

This might also be a great opportunity to briefly tweet fans of Sense8 and implore them to check out the show, or support us as fellow fans of Alfonso!

You can also tweet @reedhastings, the CEO of Netflix, in these two hours.

If you can’t tweet live, schedule all your tweets on apps like Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Runlater, etc between 5pm and 7pm EST.

Email Netflix Support or Reed Hastings directly, or chat online with Netflix Support

Play the Exorcist Twitter question game, using the hashtags and tagging Netflix and/or Reed Hastings.

Share your art about The Exorcist (essays, blog posts, drawings, etc), tagging and hashtagging the same!

Remember—you can do all this throughout the week too! But we want a concentrated use of hashtags and getting Netflix’s attention between the hours of 5pm and 7pm so we can make the most impact!

Thank you so much for continuing to be a part of the Congregation and working hard for our show! The creators have seen our hard work, and I know it’s appreciated!

IT’S TIME FOR WEEK TWO: AMAZON!

This needs to be our BIGGEST initiative yet! Amazon Prime is our biggest shot at renewing The Exorcist—since Sean Crouch is working closely with the streaming service due to his involvement with Lore. It’s likely Sean has pitched the show to Prime or will soon, so it’s up to us to show that there’s real buy-in for it!

Rules are the same as last time. Between 5pm and 7pm on Wednesday, May 23rd, you can do any—or all—of the following:

Tweet @PrimeVideo (using TWO HASHTAGS ONLY: #SaveTheExorcist and #PrimeSaveTheExorcist. If you use more than that, your Tweet will be marked as spam). Make sure you TAG their Twitter account in each Tweet.

Write on Prime’s Facebook wall using the same hashtags.

Contact Amazon Prime via email/customer service.

Participate in The Exorcist Twitter game, pioneered by @cutiesonthehorizon. It’s a series of questions about the show where you can talk about your favorite aspects of it all while tagging Prime and using hashtags.

In your messages, focus on the following:

The Exorcist has a large horror fan base, so those who watch Lore would love the show and vice versa—bringing on high-quality horror is good for their brand

Speak to the show’s diversity, as you did with Hulu, illustrating that taking on The Exorcist would be great to show a commitment to diversity

Prime Contact Info

Twitter: @PrimeVideo

Facebook: www.facebook.com/PrimeVideo

Customer Service: https://www.primevideo.com/help/contact-us

Things You Can Do Anytime:

Tweet #SaveTheExorcist as our primary (generic) hashtag

Sign and share the petition

Participate in the Twitter challenge

Next week, we’re focusing on Netflix! You can see the full schedule here.

Okay so I did a similar post about 6 months back, I know, but I decided it needed a revamp and also… it would be really nice to have some new people join us now that we’re fighting for a new home!!! There is SO MUCH I wasn’t able to include above because I ran out of room and my life is basically that John Mulaney joke about making a happy birthday sign. So!!! Here are some of the things I didn’t include above:

·The cast is super diverse!!! Especially in season 2 where the featured family is comprised of John Cho and his foster kids!!! These kids are SO amazing and truly diverse like… an actual blind character!!! An actual autistic character!!! The found family trope is strong with this one and I love my children so much. 

·I can’t make a post about why this show is amazing without mentioning Bennett. We as a fandom can’t agree on if his first name is spelled Devon or Devin, but REGARDLESS he is a character deserving of all of the love. He starts out as a lowkey antagonist but he’s just trying his Best and fighting the good fight and I would die for him.

·Also there are multiple queer characters other than Marcus and the show really goes out of its way to be like uhhhhh the Church is def wrong for how it’s treated the queer community over the years and lmao I don’t wanna spoil anything but the Church isn’t really painted in the best light here so pls don’t go into this one expecting to be preached to. The religious themes are obviously strong but… it’s a show that explores religion without being forcefully religious you know.

·I keep mentioning John Cho without actually talking about John Cho but!!! He is so amazing in season 2!!! The best Island Dad who ends up playing multiple emmy-worthy roles, often within the same episode. Everyone I tell to watch the show that goes onto watch it is like WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME ABOUT JOHN CHO?! So. Ya know. John Cho.

Anyway!!! For those of you who don’t know, The Exorcist was recently canceled at Fox after 2 seasons and I am NOT going to rant about that here I’m NOT, but it was def not canceled because it’s a bad show!!! It was given a terrible time slot and they didn’t promote it well and I just don’t think that many people even know it existed.

But that doesn’t mean that it’s over!!! The amazing @vulcantastic has organized a weekly social campaign and as a fandom we’re contacting/tweeting various networks and streaming services to try and get them to pick up the show! Also, we definitely have the support of the creator, EP Jeremy Slater, and season 2′s showrunner and all around amazing guy, EP Sean Crouch. They’re not giving up, and neither are we. So if you watch the show and you fall in love, please come join us in our efforts!

Thanks to all who have promoted this initiative so far. Can’t wait to work on this with you all! As you know, Week 1 of our #SaveTheExorcist social campaign is

HULU!

On Wednesday, May 16th, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm EST, we will be reaching out to Hulu to #SaveTheExorcist. The streaming service is certainly in the position to do so, as they own the streaming rights to the first two seasons. We want to show them that taking on this show creatively would be a huge benefit for them.

So, in that two-hour timeframe, you can do any (or all) of the following:

Tweet Hulu

Write on Hulu’s Facebook wall

Contact Hulu’s customer service by online chat or phone

Stream an episode or two of the show on Hulu if you have an account

You can also do this all week long, but we want a concentrated time period for everyone to be interacting with Hulu in these two hours on Wednesday.

In your Tweets and Facebook posts, please use the hashtag #HuluSaveTheExorcist for this week. You can share articles, fan art, personal anecdotes—anything that you believe illustrates makes this show great. In terms of subject matter, you might talk about how Fox didn’t promote the show effectively, and that we believe Hulu can do that. Illustrate that there’s a huge international audience for the show, and if you are an international fan, say where you’re from!

Hulu Contact Information

Twitter

Facebook (make sure to write @Hulu in your comment so they’ll see it!)

Customer Service (for those who have Hulu accounts), UserVoice Link

Joel Stillerman, Chief Creative Officer at Hulu: [email protected]

Things You Can Do Anytime:

Sign and share the petition

Tweet #SaveTheExorcist as our primary (generic) hashtag

Participate in The Exorcist Twitter challenge (more details to come)

Continue to watch The Exorcist on Hulu as often as you can

Next week, we’ll be focusing on Amazon Prime! You can see the full schedule here.

Hello Exorcist Congregation,

Happy to relay that @letzoespoilyou and @herbeloved82 and I have not one but TWO episodes of our exorcist fan podcast Devils in the Details out tonight for your listening pleasure. 

Check it out on our website here or listen on iTunes here. 

Fair warning, episode 9 was recorded today, just two days after the cancellation news, so the wounds are fresh. We vent for quite a bit during the first 20 minutes.  If you’d like to get right into the episode, skip to minute 23. 

Thank you for the support and love, and remember that the battle isn’t over.  If anything, it’s just getting started. Slater and Crouch are still fighting to get this show up somewhere else, so please do what you can to continue to make those amazing art pieces, write those fics, make those vids, and tweet/reblog/share the exorcist love with the world!

Peace and love,

Hey everyone! It’s me again!

So, I think it’s reached every corner of the fandom by now that our little show was let go by Disney Fox.

But the creators, namely Sean Crouch and Jeremy Slater, have been planning for this, and it’s my (and many others’) understanding that they’ve already begun shopping the show around to other networks and streaming services, or at the very least plan to. Of course, they’ll have to illustrate that it has a solid fan base interested in seeing the story continue.

That’s where we come in (no, literally. We’re picking the metaphorical locks of every streaming service and network out there)!

In tandem with Alfonso’s Latin American fan initiative (@todafandoPancho on Twitter) and with some of the brilliant members of the #ExorcistCongregation, I’m organizing a…

WEEKLY TWEETATHON/SOCIAL CAMPAIGN!

The first of these will launch on Wednesday, May 16th, 2018.

Each week, we will focus on one major network or streaming service. Between 5pm and 7pm EST on Wednesdays, all are welcome to:

tweet the focus network/service

chat online with or call their customer service team

send an email

If you’re feeling ambitious, you can do all three! Here’s the schedule—we may add on to this, and we’re open to suggestions!

May 16th: Hulu

May 23rd: Netflix

May 30th: Amazon Prime

June 6th: SyFy

June 13th: FX/FXX

June 20th: AMC

Please feel free to DM me if you think any network or service not on this list should be added.

On Monday night of each week, I will launch and promote the event for that coming Wednesday. So tomorrow, expect a post with Hulu-specific contact information, suggestions for posts and emails, and a bunch more!

If you have any suggestions for what more we can do during these Wednesday crunch times, feel free to DM me!

That last post almost broke my tumblr…

Okay here is the deal…

We need to get #savetheexorcist to trend as 62 reblogs is great… People now see we have hope… Now let’s help Jeremy and Sean fight by showing them our congregation numbers

Everybody make posts using that hash tag as much as you can when you can… When you are bored when you are in an amazing mood… Just use it again and again and show anyone willing to pick up the show that we are here and our numbers are huge…

I was asked by @crossroadscastiel to post this…

Please, Vote in the iHorror pol & spread the word!!