User blog:DetentionaireSeason5/Project Detentionaire: Let’s do this! Let’s get Detentionaire back for a fifth season

Hello everyone! I thought I would inform all of you that earlier this year in January, I started a fanmade organization with the sole purpose of getting Detentionaire back on the air. Our little project started out on Reddit, but we have expanded to Twitter and Discord, and I think it’s about time we expand onto the wiki too.

I think that we as a fandom have waited long enough for a new season, and while our fandom may be small, we definitely have the power to get the series back if we all band together. Now, you may be wondering why this will succeed as fans have pushed for revival before, and have failed. Well, with this fanmade project I have started, we have already taken an almost dead subreddit, and in three months got almost a hundred new people in, we have doubled the amount of signatures on the petition to get Detentionaire back (was at 300, but now above 700), and we have even been able to get confirmation that the series will be coming to Netflix later this year thanks to a distribution company known as FilmRise TV. Accomplishing all of this within three months really shows that the plan does have potential.

So, what can you do to help? Well, firstly, it would be significant if we could have more members as a part of our revival team. We have groupchats on Discord, Reddit and Twitter. If you wish to join, feel free to comment on my post, and I will provide you with more information. If you want more specifics on what needs to be done, we not only need to keep building the Detentionaire fandom, but we also need to incentivize FilmRise TV to actually invest in promoting the series as they are in charge of the show’s promotion. Here is a list of things that you can do:


 * Share the show with anybody you think would be interested because even though the show is coming onto American Netflix, that is going to be months from now. In the meantime, we should be focusing on gathering more fans so that when the series does get onto American Netflix, we have a strong fanbase supporting the series. If word about the series gets out to more people, the series is more likely to do well which would incentivize them to bring the series back for new seasons.


 * Keep the fanbase active. Since the start of 2021, the Detentionaire fanbase has gotten way more active. The subreddit has gained over 100 users in 3 months, and there has been lots of talk about the show on Twitter between fans. If we could keep on posting Detentionaire related content across social media, the algorithms will keep on going up, and more people will see the show. With more people seeing the show, more people will join the fandom which will increase the demand for a revival, and this demand would incentivize Nelvana and these streaming services to produce new episodes.


 * Call Nelvana (the company who owns Detentionaire) and just talk to them about how much you love the show, and that you would want the series back. You could even talk to them about the show’s positive reception, and how if they invest in more episodes, the series could become a hit, and raise their profits significantly. You could also point out to them that mystery shows are big these days, so investing in more Detentionaire could equal lots of notoriety for both the company and the series. It would be best to call Nelvana and ask for Pam Westman (the president of Nelvana). I have linked her contact information in the comments.


 * Call Filmrise TV and thank them for bringing in Detentionaire as that would show them that people love the series so much that they are willing to reach out to them and thank them for it. Filmrise TV is in charge of Detentionaire’s promotion, so if we want the show to actually gain some traction, we need them to promote it before it lands on these streaming services. You could also talk to them about how the series ended on a cliffhanger, and the fans want more episodes. That would bring forth the idea of a revival in their heads, and they may invest in more promotion so that the series is profitable enough for more episodes. Like Nelvana, we can also let them know about how the series has never aired in America, and investing in promotion could be impactful. Furthermore, it would be a good idea to bring up the fact that mystery shows have been much more popular over the recent years, and promoting Detentionaire could equal large profits for them.


 * Sign the bring back Detentionaire petition. There is a bring back Detentionaire petition on Change.org, and in the past few months, it went from 350 to 700 signatures. This alone is a very significant increase in signatures for this sort of timespan. If the series does well on Netflix plus it has a petition that has many signatures asking to bring the series back, there is absolutely no reason for them not to bring the series back.

To end this off, I would like to say that we can do this. We can get this amazing series back so that it can get the ending it deserves. Now that I have highlighted our next steps, it is up to us to follow through with these steps so that we can prove to Corus, Nelvana and these streaming services that this series is profitable enough for a revival. Any work you guys do will go a long way in helping us reach our goal, and if we put the work in, we will get a fifth season. I will link all my resources in the comments. Thank you for reading, and feel free to comment your thoughts, questions, concerns, etc.