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Ava DuVernay is helping to raise awareness about efforts to rename Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge after Civil Rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis. DuVernay added her name to a Change.org petition urging Alabama’s governor to change the name of the historic bridge. The filmmaker, who helmed the 2014 drama Selma…

A day before the series finale of Game of Thrones, disappointed fans are calling for a remake of the last season. As of Saturday evening, 1.02 million people had signed a Change.org petition saying the hit HBO series “deserves a final season that makes sense.” Dylan D., who started the petition to HBO, criticized…

Netflix VP Original Series Cindy Holland defended the streaming services controversial new series Insatiable, which critics are demanding be canceled before it launches, based on its trailer. A Change.org petition calling for the cancellation of Insatiable launched last week now has more than 200K signatures. The…

Netflix has hit the marketing mother lode since not one but two petitions of outrage were created by fans of its docuseries Making a Murderer. One is addressed to the White House; the other posted on Change.org. Together they have clocked more than 200K signatures, not accounting for redundancy. Steven Avery is the…

Top Gear (former?) presenter Jeremy Clarkson launched an obscenity-filled tirade against BBC bosses at a charity auction Thursday night that seemed to indicate he had been sacked on the same day that the corporation completed an inquiry into the “fracas” with a producer that led to his suspension 10 days ago. In the…

A petition has been launched on Change.org to reinstate Brian Williams as anchor of NBC Nightly News. Change.org is where people went in droves to sign the petition telling GoDaddy.com to pull its Super Bowl ad making light of puppy mills; the web site also has been a key player in other TV controversies. “Though…

TLC hit pay dirt this morning when GLAAD and other organizations began to savage My Husband's Not Gay, its new TV special/backdoor pilot, and touted a petition to get the network to pull the plug, greatly increasing viewer awareness of the program five days before its debut. "This show is downright irresponsible,"…

A petition launched in August urging TLC to cancel the Duggar family reality series 19 Kids And Counting, over a robocall recorded by Michelle Duggar, now has more than 131,000 signatures after it got noticed by the media. In response, several pro-Duggar family petitions have been launched on Change.org and elsewhere…

Discovery Channel said today that when Paul Rosolie attempted to be eaten by an Anaconda for its TV special, he did it for all the anacondas out there who have no voice. Today’s news release on Eaten Alive was Discovery Channel’s first information dump about the December 7 special since a large-ish scale protest…

A petition demanding Discovery Channel cancel its dining-on-a-naturalist anaconda special, Eaten Alive blew past its goal of 25,000 signatures at 5:49 ET this morning, and is well on its way to its new goal of 35,000 — just six days after its launch on Change.org. Discovery is not commenting on the petition, and has…