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How Manifest was saved - it wasn't the fans
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How Manifest was saved - it wasn't the fans

Netflix saved Manifest despite the tweets. It was Netflix viewers watching that did it - proving once again that Twitter is useless.

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Dan Barrett
Sep 15, 2021
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Are are used to hearing about fan campaigns to save TV shows. Past campaigns have involved sending spoons to networks, skywriting, renting billboards, buying Subway footlongs, and other high concept efforts. Recently when Manifest got cancelled by NBC, fans were lazy and mostly just tweeted a lot and used hashtags.

But Manifest got saved. Netflix picked …

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