Blade TV Series (http://www.bladetvseries.com)

Well, it’s official. Spike TV has decided not to bring back Blade: The Series for a second season. Shows I like are created and cancelled all the time, but since I have a fansite for this particular show, this news stings that much more.

To make matters worse, my Blade: The Series fansite is, by far, the most visited of my sites. It’s averaging around 400 visitors a day right now (this is after the season has ended), and had a peak of over 2500 unique visitors the day after the finale. The growth and popularity of the site has been phenomenal. With the show being cancelled, the future of the site is shaky. I do plan on keeping the site updated as long as people keep visiting, but unless the show gets picked up by another network, I don’t see the site lasting long without the actual series continuing.

To make matters even worse, I have a few television related projects in the pipeline that could potentially be affected. I was hoping to leverage my Blade fansite to push some traffic to these new projects, but that traffic will likely not be there when I want it. This means I may do some shuffling of projects so that I either put those TV projects on the backburner, or perhaps try and rush them to completion so as to be able to still capitalize on the lingering popularity of the fansite… I just don’t know.

I will say that I definitely loved working with the fansite. Even though it may only last for the one season, it was still worth it. I definitely would like to do fansites in the future, but as of now, none are planned.