... Is there something in the super-sized Irish Mochachinos today? Renewal-ocalypse 2011 continued with Syfy handing out a fourth-season order for its top-rated series Warehouse 13, which isn't a surprise. Season quatro will be run for 13 episodes. Also renewed today was USA's Suits, HBO's True Blood, and the next item in this story. [Deadline Hollywood]
... USA is granting a send-off season to In Plain Sight. The drama will be back for a fifth and final season consisting of eight episodes. USA spun this news as a celebratory renewal, but let's face it: It feels a lot more like a cancellation, doesn't it? It's kind of like a doctor telling a patient he has twelve months to live and handing him a party hat. [Deadline Hollywood]
... One of my favorite TV-makers, Bryan Fuller, is digging up an old project and shopping it at NBC. Fuller, creator of Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, will try to adapt the classic sitcom The Munsters for the network, but his take will result in an "edgier, slightly darker hour-long show." Fuller previously attempted to adapt this last year, but NBC passed. Normally such news would make me vomit, but with Fuller in charge, it could be good. [TV Guide]
... Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) is joining NBC's upcoming comedy Whitney as the mother of the titular star (Whitney Cummings). Jane (retyping her last name is too difficult) replaces Beverly D'Angelo, who appeared in the pilot. In other news, Kaczmarek should be available for new work in October because Whitney is HORRIBLE. Like, worst-thing-ever horrible. [Deadline Hollywood]
... Bobby Cannavale, who you may know from Third Watch and Will & Grace but who I know from The Station Agent and Win Win because I'm an art-house snob, is joining Showtime's Nurse Jackie. He'll play a hospital administrator who shakes things up at All Saint's Hospital. [Showtime via press release]
... Ashton Kutcher isn't busy or rich enough, I guess. He's sold a DMV reality show to TruTV that follows workers at agency. Well, a bunch of cameras following their every move should really speed up those lines. [EW]
... Mr. Bowlcut himself, Demetri Martin, has sold an animation project to Fox about a family who works in the California Redwoods. Seriously, that's the description. A family that works in the Redwoods. Are they lumberjacks? Forest rangers? Picnic-basket thiefs? I don't know! Somewhere, Seth MacFarlane has a poster of Martin with a bullseye over his face. [Deadline Hollywood]
... Apparently The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont didn't voluntarily leave the show, he was fired! Drama! Read this article, it's awesome. [THR]
... Roseanne Barr is talking to 20th Century Fox TV about writing and starring in a new sitcom called Downwardly Mobile (no way that name sticks), about a blue-collar family struggling to get by in these tough economic times. Sounds hilarious! [Deadline Hollywood]
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Ooh... Bryan Fuller in action again! Can't wait. To this day i'm still hurting from Pushing Daisies' cancellation!
Here is the ending for Eureka...
The cast gathers at the edge of town and finds a wall. A great wall. It surrounds the entire town. A roof appears above the wall sealing them inside. They find a window in the wall and knock. A little window opens up and and they see the crew from Warehouse 13 who inform them that they have been secured and are now occupants of the new Warehouse 14. We switch perspective and see the Eureka cast from the other side. The window closes and disappears. The Warehouse 13 stars comment that "It had to be done..." and "We had no other choice. They were getting out of control..." Then they walk away from a sign on a wall that simply says "W14: Eureka--Extreme Danger--Do Not OPEN!"
The end.moreless
that leaves one more season and then it will be canceled.
Man, I just don't get SyFy. Sure W13 is an ok show but Eureka is leaps and bounds better yet they treat it like crap during its entire run then renew/cancel it. WTF? Man I hate SyFy. They have come out with so many great shows only to cancel them. As much as I like a lot of their shows I wish they would get whats coming to them and go belly up. They deserve that and so much more.
I think Warehouse 13 is going to end after season 5. Either because they choose to on their own or because Syfy will cancel it. As far as I know, there has been no Syfy original scripted series that has ever lasted more than 5 seasons. So will W13 be the first? Maybe. Thats if its still Syfy's most-watched series. Syfy just better not pull the same BS that they did with Eureka and if they do then they better give them a extra episode to be the series finale just like they did with Eureka.
Warehouse 13 is still young enough for renewal, however if Syfy treats it like they have Eureka then I don't expect a long future for the show.
The Munster's remake sounds interesting. It's sure to be better than the last remake (The Munster's Today). Imagine Pushing Daisies with the Munsters.
I think Fox had two Munsters movies after the Munsters Today series, but it's hard for me to imagine sadder The Munsters Today. The original series was essentially a one- or two-joke show as it is.
If they cancel Warehouse 13 next week, I say we storm syfy.
yay love warehouse 13. the about roseanne barr sounds like the roseanne show.
wow, sounds great
8 more episodes of In Plain Sight will be better than none. But why this show could not live any longer? *sigh* I could do with like two more seasons of IPS :(
great news, cool
Sure... Why not... Let's wait a month because if SGU, Eureka is any indication, SyFy is a mess.
Warehouse 13 has been renewed - OBVIOUSLY like there was ever any doubt!
excellent about warehouse 13
I'm delighted that Warehouse 13 has been renewed!
Nurse jackie, for a comedy, sucks!!!!!!