The unofficial fansite for the television show Blade: The Series.

So the rumors are no longer rumors. Spike TV has officially announced that they won’t be picking up the show for a second season. You can check out an official response by Spike TV here, explaining how the “network was disappointed with the audience turnout and the ratings.”

Now, I’ve been reading the multitude of responses here and at other websites and fellow fans are pissed off and flat out mad at Spike TV. I, while definitely disappointed, am not mad at anybody, just sad.

We can’t blame Spike TV for this, as the show really didn’t pull in the ratings they were looking for. I’m sorry if that makes me sound like some sort of sell out or something, but trust me that I have absolutely no connection with Spike TV at all. I’m just another fan - a fan that happens to run a fansite of the show.

Obviously I’m not happy about the show being pulled. Like all of you, I’m not going to be able to watch the rest of this great story unfold. However, I also have this fansite that is now kind of screwed, so this news stings me doubly hard. Even so, I totally understand where Spike is coming from, and it really isn’t their fault. They are a network that brands themselves as a network for guys, and as such, need their television shows to bring in large amounts of male viewers. It sounds as though the ratings as a whole for Blade: The Series were decent, it’s just that there weren’t enough male viewers to please their advertisers. As such, they decided to pull the show, which leaves us, the fans, out in the cold.
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