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By now I expect most people have heard the official news that FOX’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is officially, completely, totally and 100% cancelled. FOX announced its 2009-2010 schedule today and the show wasn’t on it. If that wasn’t enough to convince the more hardcore fans, executive producer Josh Friedman has posted a farewell letter to fans at FOX’s website for the show. An excerpt:

And what an audience we found: passionate, intelligent, kind of nuts in a good way. My only complaint about the T:SCC fans is that there aren’t ten million of them. But I prefer to be happy for the ones we had instead of lamenting the ones we didn’t.

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Thanks to a brave and talented cast, a feature crew working on a TV schedule, and everyone else who I could list but won’t because they know who they are. Mostly I’d like to thank those of you who’ve supported us and fought for us and given up hours of your life to watch our show. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. The watching.

Finally, the futon critic has some quotes from FOX entertainment chief Kevin Reilly about the cancellation:

“‘Terminator’ has completed its run,” FOX entertainment chief Kevin Reilly told reporters in a conference call this morning. “And I think it had a nice little run. It was a good show. It was not [a question of keeping either 'Dollhouse' or 'Terminator']. We did see it tailing off a bit. It had a nice creative core, but ultimately we made the bet on ‘Dollhouse’ for the night. We had some other shows we thought would make a better profile for the night. So that’s it for ‘Terminator.’”

Judging from the response we’ve had here at Lower Decks there are going to be a lot of unhappy people. Our poll asking if Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles should get a third season drew 111 responses (a record!) and 95 of them said yes. Unfortunately for them, it just wasn’t meant to be.