'Sarah Connor's Chronicles' Officially Terminated

Summer GlauWith "Terminator: Salvation" due this weekend, you would think it would be a tremendous time for fans of all things Terminator. However, the franchise's television show, "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles," received the axe this weeko

The Fox show was firmly on the bubble in regards to returning next year, but a betting man would not have like the show's chances.

I'll be honest. I was excited about the show before it first aired. So much so, in fact, that in anticipation of its premiere, I popped in the blu-rays for the first two movies.

Afterward, I watched the first two episodes ... and I was just completely underwhelmed.

I gave up on the show -- as did many others -- but there were still a group of of loyal diehards who loved the show to the end and tried to prevent its cancellation.

It is to those viewers that the show's executive producer, Josh Friedman, penned this classy letter:

By now most of you have heard the news that T:SCC is cancelled. I received a call earlier today from Peter Roth at Warner Bros. and I appreciate both his personal and professional support throughout this show’s life. I know a lot of you are angry about the cancellation and want to find a place to direct your anger and to that I say do yourself a favor and find a way to move past it. Every network wants a big fat hit, especially one with a brand name behind it, and Fox was/is no different. They supported the show, they supported my vision of the show, and they gave it plenty of time to find an audience.

And what an audience we found: passionate, intelligent, kind of nuts in a good way. My only complaint about the T:SCC fans is that there aren’t ten million of them. But I prefer to be happy for the ones we had instead of lamenting the ones we didn’t.

Good shows are cancelled every year; smart shows, worthy shows, shows which move their viewers to write blogs and have viewing parties and create action figures and bury executives’ email accounts under thousands of messages. I miss Deadwood and The Wire and Arrested Development but thank God that I still have Rescue Me and The Office and a recently renewed Party Down written by ex-T:SCC writer John Enbom.

Bad shows are cancelled, too. And certainly there are those who did not like what we did and had their own vision for what a Terminator TV show should be. It’s easy to look at low ratings or cancellation as “failure” and for those who believe we’ve gone about this all wrong I’m sure today’s news will only serve to confirm a world view that I would never try to change. We’ve written the show as best we can, executed it to the best of our abilities, and sent it out in the world knowing that we worked out asses off to do something that wouldn’t be a waste of anybody’s forty-three minutes.

Thanks to a brave and talented cast, a feature crew working on a TV schedule, and everyone else who I could list but won’t because they know who they are. Mostly I’d like to thank those of you who’ve supported us and fought for us and given up hours of your life to watch our show. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. The watching.

Hope we do it again soon.

Josh Friedman