A week or so ago we had the creator of 'Lone Star' begging viewers to help save his show. Now, one day after ABC Family announced it was canceling summer series 'Huge,' women's website Jezebel.com has launched an online petition to save it.

In the petition, Dodai Stewart maintains that 'Huge' is worth saving because there are too few overweight characters in scripted TV shows, and that when fat characters do exist, they are typically treated as a punchline. Stewart argues that 'Huge' was significant because "although the show was about teenagers at a weight-loss camp, weight loss was actually just a fraction of the issues the kids (and adults) were dealing with. The characters juggled dilemmas ... In other words, it reminded us that fat people are people. Humans."

Although hopes were high for the series -- described as 'Glee' meets 'Ugly Betty' -- when it first launched, ABC Family canceled 'Huge' after one season due to steadily declining ratings.

We've seen the "reality" of weight loss on shows like 'The Biggest Loser,' but the real reality is that obesity, eating disorders and body image issues are more common that you probably think, and there's a good chance you or someone you know if affected by them every day.

ABC Family realized this, and now they're in the weight loss TV game with 'Huge,' a quirky drama based on Sasha Paley's book of the same name, helmed by 'My So-Called Life' creator Winnie Holzman and starring Nikki Blonsky and Hayley Hasselhoff (yes, daughter of The Hoff and, ironically, the one who shot the now-infamous hamburger binge video).

We caught up with the ladies to find out what to expect from the show (premieres Mon., June 28, 9PM ET) and to hear more about their characters -- Blonsky as opinionated non-conformist Will, who is the daughter of fitness gurus, and Hasselhoff as social butterfly Amber, who is dying to be thin and fit in.