On Fanlore, users with accounts can edit pages including user pages, can create pages, and more. Any information you publish on a page or an edit summary will be accessible by the public and to Fanlore personnel. Because Fanlore is a wiki, information published on Fanlore will be publicly available forever, even if edited later. Be mindful when sharing personal information, including your religious or political views, health, racial background, country of origin, sexual identity and/or personal relationships. To learn more, check out our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Select "dismiss" to agree to these terms.

Great Expectations Project

From Fanlore
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Event
Event: Great Expectations Project
Participants:
Date(s): 1990
Type: fundraising
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (TV)
URL:
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.

Great Expectations Project was a Beauty and the Beast (TV) fan-led effort organized by Donna Haarman and Elizabeth DuVall.

A related project was Beauty and the Beast Videotape Pledge.

After the cancellation, the subsequent 'Fox-up' and the initial wave of publicity and en masse letterwriting had subsided, amid all the calls and letters to the Workshop in the last 2 weeks... speculation, brainstorming, problem-solving, a "what can we do about this" state of mind began to prevail. Two different strategies were suggested over and over again, but it wasn't till the weekend of January 20th that the ideas suddenly took on the shape of action.

What we need is insurance against network hard times and harder hearts, but for a show as fine and grand as "Beauty and the Beast" the name of the game is ...money.

On the drawing board, the "Great Expectations Project" would be a privately owned corporation that, through shares sold to fans and grants given out to selected series, could make up in production costs what is not covered by advertisers' dollars. Stipulating in its by-laws that there will be no interference in a sponsored series' creative content or business dealings, the corporation would help to balance some of that 'ratings bias' against quality programming. Donna Haarman [phone number redacted] East Coast coordinator, and Elizabeth DuVall [phone number redacted] West Coast coordinator, are looking for business professionals: MBA's, accountants, entertainment and tax lawyers, to donate consultation time on a feasibility study and/or form a board of directors pro tem. [1]

References

  1. ^ from Pipeline v.3 n.2 (February 1990)