Lucifer actor Tom Ellis has spoken about how he was involved in helping save the show from cancellation.
The supernatural comedy drama was famously cancelled at network Fox after its third season, before Netflix swooped in.
Appearing on the Inside of You podcast, Ellis told host and Smallville actor Michael Rosenbaum that he got the jump on Fox announcing the cancellation (buried in an announcement of a new show) by revealing it himself in a tweet.
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That led to Peter Roth, the head of production company Warner Bros Television, calling Ellis up and asking him to fan the flames of the passionate fan campaigns on social media.
"I got myself to Heathrow Airport, and I had a message from BBC Newsnight," he said.
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"And they said that they had been noticing what was happening on social media… about the show. Did I want to appear as a guest on the show to talk about that and to talk about television changing and all these things... I was like, 'Absolutely'.
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"So I got to LA, and then I ended up doing like a studio bit back to London about this, and for the next kind of week and a half, two weeks, it just became like all I talked about, and all people were asking me about.
"And then, a couple weeks later, I'd been tipped off from Peter that things were progressing well and then we got the Netflix announcement, and it was the most vindicating, wonderful experience, and I didn't feel quite so bad about pressing send on that tweet."
Lucifer can be streamed in full on Netflix.
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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he's covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV and movies both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I'm a Fish.
