Great Expectations Project
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| Event: | Great Expectations Project |
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| Date(s): | 1990 |
| Type: | fundraising |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
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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]