If you see this I hope you are doing ok. A few of us noticed you haven't posted in awhile and the account is gone. Just let us know you are ok.

ebay Express seems to have a batch of the Sirius figures too at various prices.

http://search.express.ebay.com/items/Sirius-action-figure_W0QQ_nkwZSiriusQ20actionQ20figureQQtrZQQruZ

I see that amazon has those Sirius figues that were posted about earlier.

http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Figure-Sirius-Black/dp/B000RC2R9S/ref=sr_1_1/102-6521215-8547317?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1187060719&sr=8-1

Hmmmm....been awhile since I've posted soooooooooooo a little meme fun thing! Leave a comment abd I will pick 3 of your interests and 3 of your userpics I would like you to explain. Post'em in your journal and allow others to comment and request as well.

Here are the ones




harlequin_elf requested of me!

Interests:

Cookie jars: Well I have a small collection. I am a baker and really love making cookies! Well, gotta put'em somewhere and I love filling a funky cookie jar.

Old Clocks: My Grandfather loved old clocks and I guess as a kid I picked up on this. He had a couple he restored and now I have 'em. Also, I have a nice one that was my Great Aunt's which resided in her front parlor of her house. I like the "tick tock" and the "bong" as they announce the hour. I find it soothing and a reminder of family that has passed on.

Vampires: I'm a sucker for a good vampire story, movie, etc. Hee Hee, sucker, get it? Ok Ok enough of the puns.


Userpics:



I have been a Sherlock Holmes fan since seeing Basil Rathbone in the old series of films of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable character. I pretty much devoured the books as a teen and still love them to this day. It's alot of years folks that this interest (and Ancient Egypt) has stayed with me.




Cats! Can you ever have too many? Naw!!!!!!! Especially if kitty has boxing superpowers. POW! ZAP! Just a cute pic that I luv.

Lestrade from Sherlock Holmes stories


</table

001.	Beginnings	002.	Middles	003.	Ends	004.	Hours	005.	Days
006.	Weeks	007.	Months	008.	Years	009.	Sea	010.	Shore
011.	Faith	012.	Trust	013.	Respect	014.	Joy	015.	Sorrow
016.	Purple.	017.	Red.	018.	Black.	019.	White.	020.	Blue
021.	Friends	022.	Enemies	023.	Lovers	024.	Family	025.	Strangers.
026.	Teammates	027.	Parents	028.	Children	029.	Birth	030.	Death
031.	Sunrise	032.	Sunset	033.	Too Much	034.	Not Enough	035.	Sixth Sense
036.	Smell	037.	Sound	038.	Touch	039.	Taste	040.	Sight.
041.	Temptation	042.	Whisper	043.	Nightmare	044.	Bittersweet	045.	Guilt
046.	Star	047.	Moon	048.	Run	049.	Hide	050.	Play
051.	Water	052.	Fire	053.	Earth	054.	Air	055.	Spirit
056.	Breakfast	057.	Lunch	058.	Dinner	059.	Food	060.	Drink
061.	Winter	062.	Spring	063.	Summer	064.	Fall	065.	Time
066.	Rain	067.	Snow	068.	Lightning	069.	Thunder	070.	Storm
071.	Broken	072.	Fixed	073.	Light	074.	Dark	075.	Shade
076.	Grief	077.	Tears	078.	Lies	079.	Truth	080.	Lost
081.	Tease	082.	Anger	083.	Shy	084.	Love	085.	Hate
086.	Found	087.	Life.	088.	Fear	089.	Hero	090.	Villain
091.	Slave	092.	Freedom	093.	Quest	094.	Journey	095.	Triumph
096.	Writer‘s Choice.	097.	Writer‘s "Choice.	098.	Writer‘s Choice.	099.	Writer‘s Choice.	100.	Writer‘s Choice.

Staking my claim!

♥ Name of the Fandom: Deadwood
♥ What your fandom is (Movie, TV show, Book, etc.): TV show
♥ What/Who you are claiming: Doc Amos Cochran
♥ Your LJ Name: Deadwoodrose
♥ The URL for your prompt table:

http://deadwoodrose.livejournal.com/32320.html

001.	Beginnings	002.	Middles	003.	Ends	004.	Hours	005.	Days
006.	Weeks	007.	Months	008.	Years	009.	Sea	010.	Shore
011.	Faith	012.	Trust	013.	Respect	014.	Joy	015.	Sorrow
016.	Purple.	017.	Red.	018.	Black.	019.	White.	020.	Blue
021.	Friends	022.	Enemies	023.	Lovers	024.	Family	025.	Strangers.
026.	Teammates	027.	Parents	028.	Children	029.	Birth	030.	Death
031.	Sunrise	032.	Sunset	033.	Too Much	034.	Not Enough	035.	Sixth Sense
036.	Smell	037.	Sound	038.	Touch	039.	Taste	040.	Sight.
041.	Temptation	042.	Whisper	043.	Nightmare	044.	Bittersweet	045.	Guilt
046.	Star	047.	Moon	048.	Run	049.	Hide	050.	Play
051.	Water	052.	Fire	053.	Earth	054.	Air	055.	Spirit
056.	Breakfast	057.	Lunch	058.	Dinner	059.	Food	060.	Drink
061.	Winter	062.	Spring	063.	Summer	064.	Fall	065.	Time
066.	Rain	067.	Snow	068.	Lightning	069.	Thunder	070.	Storm
071.	Broken	072.	Fixed	073.	Light	074.	Dark	075.	Shade
076.	Grief	077.	Tears	078.	Lies	079.	Truth	080.	Lost
081.	Tease	082.	Anger	083.	Shy	084.	Love	085.	Hate
086.	Found	087.	Life.	088.	Fear	089.	Hero	090.	Villain
091.	Slave	092.	Freedom	093.	Quest	094.	Journey	095.	Triumph
096.	Writer‘s Choice.	097.	Writer‘s "Choice.	098.	Writer‘s Choice.	099.	Writer‘s Choice.	100.	Writer‘s Choice.

As a public service reminder to my Deadwood buds and other fans, Ian McShane a.k.a. Al Swearengen will be on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Thurs, June 8 at 12:35 AM EST ( be sure to check your local listing *grin*) so gear up the VCR if you have to. I'll problably record it as I just will be too sleepy to know what's going on. Besides I'd like to hear what he has to say about all the hullabaloo that's been going on. I have never watched this show so I don't know if it's live or recorded way ahead. Hmmmm....

This just in!

June 05, 2006

2 telefilms mark 'Deadwood' end

HBO and David Milch have solved their "Deadwood" dilemma. HBO has reached an agreement with Milch, creator/executive producer of the Western drama series, to wrap up the show as a pair of two-hour movies rather than a full-blown fourth season. The issue of whether HBO would order a fourth season was forced in recent weeks by the fact that the cast members' contractual options for a fourth season are due to expire soon. The third season of "Deadwood" is set to premiere Sunday. HBO had offered Milch a six-episode pickup for Season 4 rather than the 12-episode norm for the show since its premiere in 2004. (Cynthia Littleton)

Take a look at this. I'm passing it on from the deadwoodtv group.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/711/711064p1.html

I hope it is a good sign.

Two articles posted in one of my fan groups for Deadwood. I am very surprised at Milch but well he's gonna do what he's gonna do....





It's Official: Deadwood Is Dead
_Deadwood_
(http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4084978&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4084978&tvobjectid=100115&keyword=deadwood&referrer=s
earch1) creator David Milch has penned a statement that pretty much
confirms our worst fears: TV's best acted, written, directed, costumed and
photographed show will end after its upcoming third season — and before its natural
conclusion. The entire statement is below. Read it and weep.

"I'm touched by the passionate response of many of the fans of Deadwood and
understand the disappointment they have expressed that this is to be the
final season of the show.

However, I presented a new project to the network, John from Cincinnati,
which they are very excited about. We worked together to try and fashion a plan
that would have enabled us to produce a fourth season of Deadwood, as well as
the new show. HBO, in fact, offered to commit to an additional six episodes
after this season to conclude Deadwood.

I felt the right decision creatively was to stop now and move forward with
the new project. Deadwood has been a magnificent experience for both me and
the cast and crew behind the show, and I hope that everyone who loves Deadwood
will not allow their disappointment in any way to affect what we believe is
a wonderful season to come."





TV & DVD Columnist Mike Brantley

'Deadwood' may be dead

Friday, June 02, 2006


HBO's "Big Love" (three reruns tonight, a season finale on Sunday)
already has been renewed for a second season. Filming of new episodes
will begin this August, with the second-season debut set for 2007.

I wish the prospects for a fourth season of the HBO gold-rush frontier
series "Deadwood" looked so good.

Executive producer David Milch's series is about lawlessness in a
Western frontier camp. The place and its most colorful characters,
including Ian McShane's poetically profane Al Swearengen, are inspired
by history's real Deadwood and its inhabitants.

----------


"Deadwood's" prospects beyond 2006 look quite bleak, with the deadline
passing to lock cast members into fourth-season commitments. Just days
away from the June 11 debut of "Deadwood's" third season, no one -- not
HBO, not series creator Milch, not cast members -- is positively
committed to making a fourth season happen.

I suppose we should be grateful to have a dozen more new episodes
coming this summer. But the show's most ardent fans aren't satisfied
with that at all. They've put up Web sites (see savedeadwood.net and
www.savedeadwood.tv) and have paid for at least one high-profile,
pricey ad in Daily Variety trying to convince HBO to renew the show.

What are they up against? It's not the quality of the show. Critics
love it, and it has been a magnet for awards (including a prestigious
Peabody Award in addition to all those Emmys). It's not the popularity
of the show, as it's among HBO's most-watched original programs.

Simply, it's money. According to reports, each episode takes twice as
long to shoot as other original hours and costs an estimated $5
million.

HBO has renewed shows that aren't as popular and aren't as acclaimed as
"Deadwood," but they're also cheaper to make. Thinking of "Entourage"
here. Another expensive HBO series, "Rome," has been renewed, but that
one is produced in partnership with the BBC, which splits costs with
HBO.

I'm hoping, perhaps in vain, that someone will crunch the numbers in a
way that will allow Milch and HBO to give us proper closure for the
"Deadwood" story. Sci Fi did it with "Farscape," a costly series that
was canceled after four seasons, then brought back as a miniseries to
wrap up loose ends.

However, it was reported recently by the Los Angeles Times that HBO
offered Milch a deal to produce a truncated, six-episode fourth season,
and he declined. Unless something changes, it looks like 12 more hours
in "Deadwood" is all we'll have.

"Deadwood" was conceived as a story arc running four seasons, we've
been told. The third season was produced with the assumption a fourth
season would follow. I don't know how "Deadwood's" third season will
end, but "Farscape's" fourth season left fans with a whopper of a
cliffhanger. If the third season of "Deadwood" leaves too many loose
ends, it'll be frustrating to everyone if they're not made tidy.

Recall, HBO's "Carnivale" concluded its second, and prematurely final,
season in a similarly unfinished way. Very, very frustrating.

Another posting from a Deadwood board I belong to.
I'm checking under my couch cushions as you read....

Gail Shister | 'Deadwood' creator scrambling to save HBO drama
By Gail Shister
Inquirer Columnist

Buddy, can you spare $60 million?

With HBO's Deadwood hanging on by a bootstrap, creator David Milch
hopes to raise enough outside cash to save his brilliant - and
expensive - western.

"I'm doing what I can," Milch says. "Any financial participation could
take the pressure off. HBO hasn't said no... . If I were a gambling
guy, which I am, I'd say odds are less than even money."

Milch says he's looking into possible tie-ins with casinos and theme
parks as well as with the actual community of Deadwood, S.D.
Imaginative marketing, he calls it.

Here's an imaginative marketing thought: If he really gets desperate,
Milch could hit up his old Yale fraternity brother, George W. Bush.

Or not.

Deadwood launches its third season June 11. With a huge ensemble cast
and lavish period sets, production costs are north of $5 million an
episode. A full season's order is 12 episodes.

Milch had always planned on four "chapters" for Deadwood. He says
everything was a go for season four when production wrapped about six
weeks ago.

Then HBO told Milch it was cutting its offer to six episodes. And it
let expire the contract options of the cast, including stars Ian
McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Jim Beaver and Molly Parker.

"The actors were as shocked as I was," Milch says. "I don't think
there was any calculation or deception on HBO's part, and I'm not
saying I was betrayed. I think HBO tried as hard as they could to find
a way to make it work. Things changed for them financially."

Milch gets it. Despite critical acclaim, the obscenity-laden Deadwood,
set in a lawless mining camp in the Dakotas in the late 1870s, "was
not the next big thing in terms of being a Sopranos-sized hit. They
needed a number of eyes we weren't providing them.

"That's their business. They have to look at things that way." But
producing only half as many episodes for next season? To Milch, that
had no six appeal.

"For my part, I did not want to accept a short order. We couldn't have
done the work the way we wanted. I didn't want to limp home. My old
man used to say, 'Never go anyplace where you're only tolerated.' "

HBO does more than tolerate the mad genius who helped create NYPD
Blue, and he knows it. For starters, Milch himself maintains that no
other network would have done Deadwood in the first place.

Moreover, Milch is deep into another HBO project - a spring drama
called John From Cincinnati, described as "surf noir." Says Milch:
"It's pretty strange, I'll say that for it." (And Milch knows from
strange.)

Meanwhile, Deadwood has a sliver of a chance for a fourth season, he
says, but it would require an extraordinary suspension of disbelief.

"I suppose if there's tremendous disaffection with the [Cincinnati]
pilot, the actors would be willing to come back, even if they had
taken other jobs.... It's not impossible, but I'm absolutely assuming
there won't be a season four."

Bottom line for Milch is the work. He expects the same from his
audience. As for HBO, well, that's a Deadwood horse of a different color.

"For me, trying to stay sane is a full-time job without trying to
figure out what's going on in someone else's mind."

Here is the link to that show I had posted about in a previous entry. Take a listen folks, it's great!


http://www.realdeadwoodpodcast.com/episode_13.html

...cuz theys developments that need interpretatin' on every front."
Dan Dority to Al Swearengen


This was posted on one of the many Deadwood boards I frequent. TV Guide has their say:

In the new TV Guide (May 29-June 4) on their Cheers and Jeers page:
JEERS to HBO for all but killing off 'Deadwood'. Only weeks before the
brilliant Westerns third-season premier, the cable network opted not
to renew the casts contracts, making another year highly unlikely.
That decision makes us want to cuss almost as much as Ian McShane's Al
Swearingen


You go TV Guide!

Well, alot of folks have been raising money (as well as Cain LOL) to place an open letter to the HBO execs re: cancellation. I just got this notice and had to share! As Mr. Wu would say Heng Dai (eternal brotherhood)

This is the ad we will place in the Hollywood and New York editions of Daily Variety (a/k/a the "National" Edition)



An Open Letter To HBO

As HBO subscribers, we are shocked and dismayed to read recent press accounts reporting HBO's failure to pick up its options on the cast contracts for a fourth season of "Deadwood".

For many years, HBO has been without peer as the network of choice for discerning viewers seeking literate, high quality original programming. "Deadwood" upholds that proud tradition. The ratings, critical acclaim, and prestigious awards (Emmy and Peabody) earned by the two season aired to date attest to the artistry and craftsmanship evident in each highly anticipated episode.

As far back as January negotiations for a fourth season of Deadwood were reportedly underway. As recently as a few weeks ago, David Milch stated in several interviews that he envisioned a four-year arc to complete the series. To receive news that season four will not be produced only after production of season three has been completed is very disturbing.

In our opinion, failing to allow "Deadwood" to complete its full intended story arc not only deprives millions of HBO subscribers around the world the opportunity to see "Deadwood" to its rightful conclusion, it also creates a serious disincentive to viewer investment in future HBO series. Rewarding subcriber loyalty to a quality series that requires viewer commitment to an ongoing storyline by truncating that storyline before it's completion jeopardizes years of hard-won good will with those subscribers, as well as the very future of the relationship itself.

We implore you to act quickly to renew "Deadwood" for a fourth season with the original cast intact.

Sincerely,

Current HBO Subscribers,

"Deadwood" Fans






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