hey david,in a time when our world is so screwed up, a time that all of us in the USA are just completely fed up with politicians and and mainstream media lying to us 24/7…

could you at least for the love of god…

"do the right thing" and honor your words?...

finish the series..please, we beg of you..

isn't anything sacred anymore?

.............TEDDY

For several years, I planned my Sunday nights around the HBO schedule. I had to be home…phone turned off, no company, no distractions allowed! It was the one night a week that I HAD to watch TV!

Deadwood was my absolute favorite, but I also loved Carnivale, Rome, and the Sopranos. I hated the ending on the Sopranos, but at least it had one!

I respect David Milch…the writing and directing of Deadwood was some of the best television I have seen in my 50 years. But, if he had to move on, there were other writers on the show that could have continued with a different person in charge. It happens all the time on regular TV, and after three seasons, those who stayed on could have maintained the integrity of the series.

HBO raves about their original programming, and I did too, to friends and family, and on my personal website. But now, it seems to be a network that only shows old movies that can be purchased in the five dollar bin at Walmart. As soon as football season ends (I love Inside the NFL) I too will cancel my subscription and move to another premium channel.

To the actors, writers, and crew of Deadwood, thank you for creating one of the best shows in the history of television!

if you dont someone ought to slit your own fucking throats.
(and dont worry im not like a …. crazy person.)

so just please make a good fourth fucking season and i dont think many would mind a fifth.

And I don't see how anyone can blame HBO for the Sopranos ending. That lands squarely in Chase's lap. He copped out on an ending and HBO had no creative input into that. And the long lags between seasons were largely Chase's fault, too. He wanted to take the amount of time he wanted to take.

To the programming executives at HBO:

To Whom It May Concern:

I never watched Television before, ever. A friend of mine introduced me to your series Deadwood, and then I found Oz, Carnivale, Six-Feet Under, Sopranos and more. I was enthralled.

At that time many years ago, I purchased a television set of my own and subscribed to HBO for nothing else but your channel. Network and regular cable was below my tastes and not tolerated in my household. After all, “it wasn’t TV, it was HBO�. By all means, I was a class TV snob.

Your decision to end Deadwood without the two movies was a blow to your viewership that can not and will not be excused. That’s the final blow to me, and you are now a dead company in my eyes.

I must remind you about the most beautiful ending to a series in television history, that of Six Feet Under. It was brilliant, gave an end to the fans, and was just a very artistic and beautiful ending to an overly-long run. The end of Sopranos was known, but done with a “whack� that was not deserving of the fan-base as 6FU was. Should Sopranos come back in any form, count me out.

Currently my subscription to my cable service includes all premium channels, so I had to go to extreme measures to get a discount on my bill by having them exclude HBO. It took a supervisor to remove your channel and take twelve lousy dollars off my bill. Believe me, it’s your loss not mine. You have nothing to offer any more, regardless of what you may think.

Even though Chris Albrecht was an idiotic dictator, he did launch your company into water-cooler history. Maybe you could use a little mental illness again within the confines of your executive board meetings.

Your viewers will never, ever, trust your network on its word again. The failure to live up to your promise will cost you dearly. Showtime is passing you up guys. Although you will never have the viewership trust in your abilities again, you could regain your viewership by putting Deadwood back into your plans, with the original cast, no matter how far in the future. We’ll wait patiently until Ian McShane and others are free. They would all love to participate.

Honestly, I believe that Milch had as much to do with this decision as did the new management. He's got a grudge and brilliant as he might have been, needs to step away from the crack-pipe and leave the ego behind. I don't want to see anything else he develops and truthfully, the past writers, both cast members and regular writers are perfectly capable of finishing off another season. Milch is dead in my eyes and I'll never watch a single episode of anything he's a part of again.

"HBO has become a visionless empire under the direction of an idiotic dictator, which shall cause the fall of the last bastion of intelligent programming for a shrinking group of discerning viewers." – Ron Pevey, June 10, 2006

Watching the evolution of McShane's "Al Swearingen" was riveting,to say the very least. The complexities of this characterization was a such a delight to unravel.

How fortunate his colleagues were to be in the presence of such a magnificent talent. How unfortunate for us that he was not able to bring the character to term, so to speak.

Thank goodness we have "John From Cincinnati" to remind us how even talented people can screw up while still making money.

Deadwood will be missed.