June 13th Update 3: We have a forum. Sign up and start discussing the campaign and ways to get Fox’s attention. And we added more info below on how to encourage Fox to release it.
June 13th Update 2: We will have a small forum going live shortly. Check back and then join so you can discuss ideas for getting Fox to release the show.
June 13th Update1: We have added some more contact details for 20th Century Fox. We have also received a couple of emails informing us that there was once talk of releasing The Inside on DVD/Blu Ray alongside another show by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon show, Strange World. In the meantime, please help spread the word on social networking sites, livejournals and other fansites by reposting some of our viral clips. Word of mouth is the only way this’ll get done. Thanks again for all the support so far.
What is The Inside?
Created by Tim Minear (Firefly, Angel, Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse) and Howard Gordon (24, The X Files), The Inside was a show about Rebecca Locke (Rachel Nichols) as she joined the Violent Crimes Unit of the FBI in an attempt to put her traumatic past to good use and become whole again. The series began with Locke being drafted to the department by manipulative Supervisory Special Agent Virgil Webster (Peter Coyote) after the supposed murder of agent Margaret Alvarez.
It soon becomes apparent to the rest of the department that Rebecca Locke may not be as stable as they first thought and together they set about making sure Alvarez’s fate doesn’t befall her. All the while investigating some of Los Angeles’s most violent crimes and dealing with their own inner demons.
The Inside was a psychological noir masked as a procedural that aired on FOX in the summer of 2005. Airing only three weeks after being given a release date, The Inside was not allowed the chance to get an audience and was subsequently cancelled after seven episodes were aired and thirteen were made.
The Inside starred Rachel Nichols (The Amityville Horror, Alias), Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Serenity, Chuck), Katie Finneran (Wonderfalls), Nelsan Ellis (Veronica Mars), Jay Harrington (Desperate Housewives) and Peter Coyote (The 4400). The series also boasted a slew of guest appearances from people such as Buffy’s Amber Benson, Angel’s Keith Szarabajka and Lost’s Michael Emerson and William Mapother.
Aside from Tim Minear, writers on The Inside included Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls), David Fury (Lost, 24) and Craig Silverstein (Standoff, Drive).
Check out some clips from the show here.
The Inside was never released on DVD and six of the thirteen episodes remain to be televised in the US.
That’s where this site comes in.
TheInsideOut.com
Our aim is to inform everyone who may have an interest in this show due to the people involved in it that The Inside actually exists.
And once we’ve done that we want everyone to contact 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and ask for a DVD release. This will be done by phone, e-mail or post. Online petitions are useless and easy to ignore. The aim is not to annoy 20th, merely to make them aware that there is interest in seeing this show on DVD as so many short-lived shows before it have been immortalized.
This site is run by Jackal and Dev. Jackal co-runs Dollverse.com while Dev runs SerenityMovie.org. Both are fans of Tim Minear’s work. They can be contacted at: contact[at]theinside-out.net.
We will be working more on the site and getting an RSS feed up over the next day or so, stay tuned for more updates on that front.
How Can I Help?
I’m arrogant enough to assume you’re asking that question to yourself right now. And I have answers. There are two things that are equally important that you can do to help…
Firstly, contact 20th Century Fox Home Video. Send Jyoti Sarda (executive director of marketing) pithy (and polite) postcards to this address asking for a DVD and Blu Ray release:
Jyoti Sarda
C/O 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME VIDEO
P.O. BOX 900
BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90213-0900
Or e-mail the following addresses, requesting the show on DVD and Blu-Ray:
foxmovies@fox.com
foxdrop@4icc.com
If you’d rather phone them: 1-888-223-2FOX
If you live outside of the US and would like to phone them, this can be done for free via software available to download at Skype.com.
Do not contact them via the same means multiple times pretending to be someone else. The aim is to give them an honest indication of what the interest in this DVD release is. Lying will likely harm this effort more than it will help it. It is okay to email both addresses and send a postcard though. However, maintaining pressure and making sure they know you’re interested is key as it may take a while for them to make a decision.
You can also sign-up to be notified by Amazon.com as to when the product becomes available. This is really quick and easy, plus Amazon are keeping count and that’s always good. Along the same lines you can go to TVShowsonDVD.com, register and vote for The Inside to be released on DVD. That site keeps this data and then sends it off to the studios.
The other thing you can do is spread the word. To help you do this, we have a Facebook group. Invite everyone who you think may be interested to join it. Mention this on message boards, your own site, blogs, whatever.
Got a Livejournal or MySpace? Embed one of the trailers or show clips from the Video section of our website.
Chances are you won’t get Joe Public to splash out for a boxset, but fans of Angel, Buffy, Alias, Firefly, Dollhouse and other similar shows will more than likely be interested. And there are definitely enough of them to support a DVD release.
Finally. Put your money where your mouth is. Soon, 20th Home Entertainment will be releasing Firefly on Blu Ray. This is a risk for them, but showing support for this release by pre-ordering it on Amazon.com will show Fox more than anything else that there is a demand for The Inside and Tim Minear’s shows to be released on DVD.