DLM footnote

I really have no faith that the "Save Dead Like Me" petition will change any minds over at Showtime (After all, I once signed a petition to save "Wonderfalls," another wonderful show created by the same person as DLM, to no avail), but what the hell, I signed it anyway, and a few other people I know have as well.
MGM, which produces the show, has stated that they haven't given up on DLM and will shop it around to other networks.
One network that has been mentioned already is the Sci-Fi Channel.
This is a distinct possibility, as Brian Fuller, the show's creator (whose involvement was actually very limited in the second season) already has a series in development with SFC (Namely a series entitled "The Amazing Screw-On Head," which is based on the Mike Mignola [Creator of "Hellboy"] comic of the same name. I've only read one issue of the series; it's just as bizarre as the title would suggest.), so that provides an opening.
Also, several years ago SFC rescued another MGM property that had been dropped by Showtime: Stargate SG-1. Stargate has managed to thrive at SFC, so maybe DLM could do the same.
I have my doubts, though, since much of the charm of DLM stems from the fact that on a premium cable channel it's not hampered by restrictions on language and content.
If George can't say things like "You're full of shit you little punk!" or drop the occasional (or, more accurately, frequent) F-bomb, I don't think it would be the same show that I've come to know and love.
So I don't know; I think I'm pretty much boned in this regard.
If Showtime doesn't change its mind about this, I'm inclined to cancel it.
Honestly, I don't watch it much (apart from watching DLM), so I wouldn't really miss it, but since my cable bill is based on a "package" system, I would probably end up losing other channels as well, and yet, paradoxically, also end up paying more.
Ironically enough, the impetus to cancel Showtime came on a day when they were actually going to be airing a movie that I wanted to see ("Monster," which I started watching, but my cable company [Adelphia] sucks, and so all of the premium channels just spontaneously cut out in the middle of the movie. [Additional info: I began writing this last night after my digital cable went out, but couldn't post it, as my Internet acces decided that it would also crap out. Adelphia sucks, but I'm not really keen on satellite, so, again, I'm boned.]).
Still, what really, really pisses me off about Showtime canceling DLM is that at the same time they made that decision, they gave the greenlight to a new series to run in its place.
This new series is based on...*sigh*...the "Barbershop" movies.
It could be worse, I guess. It could be some damn reality series, and as we know, reality sucks.
After all, the reality is that I will probably never see another new episode of Dead Like Me...