- The Wheel of Time followers have launched a marketing campaign to make sure the present is not cancelled
- Amazon hasn’t confirmed if the excessive fantasy sequence will return for a fourth season
- The Prime Video TV Original’s newest season was the best-rated one but
The Wheel of Time (TWoT) followers have rallied collectively to name on Amazon to resume the excessive fantasy present for extra seasons.
With the Prime Video TV Original’s destiny hanging within the stability, followers are urging Amazon MGM Studios and fellow manufacturing firm Sony Pictures Television to not cancel it after three seasons.
With common audiences and critics alike (per Rotten Tomatoes, anyway) labeling it the present’s highest-rated entry up to now – I even waxed lyrical about it in my evaluate of The Wheel of Time season 3 – many assumed {that a} season 4 renewal was a case of when, not if.
However, that is not been the case. At the time of publication, The Wheel of Time season 3 solely ended 12 days in the past, however viewers have grown more and more involved by Amazon and Sony’s radio silence on the matter. So, they’ve taken issues into their very own arms.
The world fan marketing campaign, dubbed ‘Renew WoT’, is a concerted and concentrated fan effort to show how keen they’re to see TWoT‘s story informed in full.
Indeed, TWoT devotees are petitioning their fellow viewers, in addition to Amazon and Sony, to make sure that this system returns for a fourth season and past.
In a bid to show how a lot they care about top-of-the-line Prime Video reveals’ future, organizers have arrange an internet site – RenewWot.com – as a hub the place nervous viewers members can throw their weight behind the marketing campaign. There, followers can signal a petition asking the present’s manufacturing studios to greenlight extra seasons, learn testimonials from their fellow fanatics, and extra.
That’s not all. TWoT followers are additionally being known as on to ship an e-mail to Amazon and Sony executives through an Action Email webpage to politely present why they need to see the sequence proceed. To date, nearly 7,000 emails have been despatched to these within the corridors of energy.
Lastly, each Friday at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm BST, followers are being requested to take to social media, use the hashtag #RenewWoT, and state why they’d wish to see extra seasons of Amazon’s live-action adaptation of Robert Jordan’s e-book sequence namesake.
In a press launch, the marketing campaign’s organizers known as the sequence “a uncommon instance of a serious fantasy adaptation with deep character arcs, inclusive casting, and complicated world-building. Consistently enhancing every season, followers consider its potential is much from completed”. The group additionally believes the marketing campaign “stands out for its tone – specializing in appreciation, not outrage – and amplifying the voices of numerous followers throughout cultures and backgrounds.”
So, will it work or is that this one other fan petition set to fall on deaf ears? For what it is price, Josha Stradowski, who performs Rand, completely informed me that the forged and crew have been “assured” that The Wheel of Time season 4 could be greenlit finally.
Per viewers measurement specialists Nielsen, The Wheel of Time accrued 505 million minutes streamed for the week operating March 24 to 30. However, that knowledge solely takes US viewers figures into consideration and is unfold throughout the sequence’ 21 episodes that have been launched as much as and together with March 30. Without extra public knowledge to pore over, then, it is nonetheless tough to find out how nicely the Rafe Judkins-created program has carried out worldwide and if it’s going to return sooner or later.
Still, followers aren’t giving up hope that TWoT shall be again.
“We know renewals depend upon numerous components and perhaps it [season 4] simply hasn’t been introduced but,” one unnamed organizer stated. “By exhibiting the studios how a lot we admire the present and wish extra, we’re both validating a choice already made, or giving them a useful nudge.”
Time will inform if all of this tough work has paid off or not. For now, I’ve reached out to Amazon for an official touch upon the fan marketing campaign and I’ll report again if I obtain a response.
