As discovered by Alaina on the Facebook group, Five have released a statement about Out of the Blue after being bombarded with emails from the show's loyal fans (not bad for a programme which, according to the BBC, didn't have a following).
Anyway, their official response to the emails isn't the greatest. They say: "Lots of people seem to think that we are carrying on from where the BBC left off. Unfortunately, we are not doing this. We've bought up all the episodes originally commissioned by the Beeb and there are no plans to produce any more. Sorry about that."
Not as sorry as us...
Interestingly, just above their statement they discuss the mixed response to their remake of Minder, explaining: "All we would say is that when we get a lot of reaction from a TV show on Five, good or bad, we're happy."
If that's not an incentive to keep up the campaign, we don't know what is.
Speaking of those efforts, on the Facebook group we've also been alerted to a leaflet which has been produced by a fan. See it here. If anyone does decide to use it we'd obviously recommend doing so sensibly - ie, don't cover your nearest postbox with 500 of them or hire a helicopter to drop them over your closest town centre.
Yet another new start for the show tomorrow as it changes to its new 5.30pm-6.30pm slot on Ten in Australia. Whether fans over there have any idea that it's moving again is anyone's guess. Judging by Ten's forums, a lot of viewers are now only watching online because they can't keep up with the channel's crazy scheduling.
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