![]() Says Whippy: "I truly believe that the Facebook page was the reason for the show being continued. ![]() In March, just a few months after the show was scrapped, TVNZ announced a two-hour wrap-up episode would be filmed. Set up by former TVNZ executive Geoff Lawson - a keen Nothing Trivial fan - it got more than 2,000 virtual signatures. It had 8,000 "likes" within a few weeks of its launch in late November, and now has more than 9,100.Īlongside the Facebook page, an online petition to bring back the show was also launched. Although the page's facilitator is elusive ( Herald on Sunday tried to make contact but with no luck), the page is hot public property. The Facebook page set up in the aftermath gave disgruntled fans a focal point for their frustration. So the response via social media and in person was amazing." "We make television for one reason: for people to watch it. He, too, was amazed by the social media reaction. "Even today at the school gate someone told me how much they loved the show," he says. The show concluded with a close-up of Mac leaving the reception and striding towards an unknown future.Ĭo-star Cortese agrees. Seconds after the smiling Catherine, played by Tandi Wright, retrieved the letter, she was mown down by a vehicle. ![]() The golden couple was set to finally find happiness, to climb aboard a plane and soar across the clear blue skies for a romantic reconciliation in Paris.īut TV types don't like trite endings or easy resolutions, and the creators of Nothing Trivial are no exception. When crimson-clad bridesmaid Catherine stepped out from Blair and Emma's wedding reception to retrieve a letter from her car (which contained her response to Mac's question about reconciliation) viewers up and down the country breathed a collective sigh of relief. As the Nothing Trivial cast prepare to film a one-off special to tie up loose ends left after the show was controversially axed, Joanna Mathers reports on the role social media played in forcing producers' handsĪs cliffhangers go, the Nothing Trivial finale was of the white-knuckle, cling-on-for-dear-life variety, the type of cliffhanger that leaves an audience desperate for closure.
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