"Heroes"

While not a cancelled show, "Heroes" is on hiatus for another (gasp) three weeks. Rumors have it that yet another death will come this season (I'm leaning towards Nathan Petrelli, but we'll see). For more spoilers, check out this Associated Content article.
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Is the O.C. Cancelled?- UPDATE 1/08

1/08: When we first wrote this post over a year ago, it was a rumor. Sadly for OC fans, it's no longer rumor, it's true. The last first-run episode will air 2/22/08- but it seems the CW might be interested in picking up the show.

FROM 12/06: Not according to Watch With Kristin over at eonline.com. Seems it was a rumor (ala the "Will Ferrell is dead" type rumor...which no, he isn't). But there is some question as to whether they will have a 16 or 22 episode season.
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ALF

Going way back into the 80s vault of cancelled shows, we've pulled out ALF. ALF, short for Alien Life Form, was really a strange, advarkian type of creature named Gordon Shumway (from the planet Melmac) who crash landed into a family's garage (The Tanners) and, because he was stranded, ended up living there while trying to fix his spaceship. The show was pretty funny (particularly when Alf tried to repeated eat the family cat) but it did end with a cliffhanger. Alf was always hiding out from the government, who knew an alien hand landed but were never clever enough to catch him. In the final episode of the series, Alf had been discovered and took off on the run, trying to evade the government he was sure would do all sorts of experiments on him. Writers had hoped the cliffhanger would encourage NBC to pick it up for another season, or at least allow them to do a movie explaining how Alf escaped, but neither worked. At least, not right away. In the early 90s, "Project Alf" aired, a 2-hour tv movie that explained what happened to Alf after he was captured, but had no Tanner family (only mentioned in passing that they had been relocated to Iceland) and really lacked the heart of the show (it was downright horrible in my opinion). Like many fans, I find it best not to think about it, and just figure Alf was smart enough to escape and find a ride home.

You may also remember the short lived cartoon which featured Alf and his buddies on Planet Melmac, which was a prequel to his crashing landing on Earth.

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Reunion

Reunion was a murder mystery show that never quite killed in the ratings. It centered around six high-school friends, one of whom is murdered at their 20th reunion, and one of them is the murderer. The story flashed back and forth to the present while the detective investigating the murder and the connections between the classmates. This is what I was able to dig up courtesty of www.eonline.com's "Watch With Kristen":
“Okay, here’s a little insider scoop,” Dave [Annable-"Aaron Lewis"] says, “and I don’t know if this is real or not, but this is what I was told! It was Will and Sam’s daughter [who was the killer]. And then what happens is, you know, Craig—Sean Faris—comes home and finds her shot, and it was by accident, and then he calls his dad, the big congressman or whatever he was, to come clean it up. And then he comes home and finds out that she’s still breathing, and then, for some reason, suffocates her. So, I guess it’s like sort of a double-kill-type thing.”


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It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas

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Everwood lives on...and on...

Everwood is going to be airing on ABCFamily from the beginning starting October 2nd at 6/5c weeknights.

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Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill was a really cute show where Jack (aka Jacqueline, played by Amanda Peet) and Jill (David Jillefsky, played by Ivan Sergei--recently on "Charmed") had a meet-cute (she discovers her fiance slept with a bridesmaid on the day of the wedding--moves in with friend--he's the hunky neighbor--nuff said), resisted getting together and yet finally did. It lasted for two season, also starred Jamie Pressly (now on "My Name is Earl", Simon Rex and Justin Kirk ("Weeds"--I knew I knew him from somewhere!).
Like most shows where it is based somewhat on sexual tension between two characters, it struggled a bit after Jack and Jill became a couple, but it was still pretty good. It was cancelled at the end of its second season (which was only 13 episodes, and aired mid-season). Here's what happened for those who can't quite remember, courtesy of www.tv.com:

Jack and Jill scramble to keep their wedding on track after the hurricane destroys their Bahamas plan, but the couple is in a bad place, something that is especially concerning Jill. Jack talks things over with Jill's mom, and Jill talks things over with Elisa. Eventually, Jill asks Jack to forget the long-term wedding arrangements, and to just get married the next day at the Justice of the Peace.

Meanwhile, Mikey and Elisa plan a party for their 'unattached' single friends, but they are shocked to learn just how depleted that group of friends has become, as most of their friends are now paired up! And Jack & Jill's sudden wedding plans force them to change the party into a wedding party anyway.

An overheard comment from Barto about how Audrey should face her fears vis-a-vis her stalker incident prompts Audrey to move back to her place. But after Elisa stays over at her apartment the first night, Barto feels so guilty that he goes over to stay with Audrey until she feels safe again.

They guys help Jill and the girls help Jack, and they all (plus Barto's date Emily) head down to City Hall. But the cattle call at City Hall is decidedly unromantic, so Jill calls it off. The results if that Mikey & Elisa's party is a total dud, and the two get hammered, and start to reveal some repressed feelings for each other. The next day, neither remembers what happened the night before, but circumstantial evidence implies that Mikey's and Elisa's repressed feelings for each other may have been consummated.

The day after the aborted wedding, Jack goes to the doctor to treat her cold and discovers that she is pregnant! That night, Audrey reveals that she still has feelings for Barto and that she wants to try again. Barto protests that he's with Emily, but Audrey just asks him to think about it. Finally, Jack comes home after visiting the doctor. Jill sits her down and says what he's been trying to say all along: that he's worried that their relationship has moved to fast, and that it needs a stronger foundation before marriage, so he wants to call the wedding (but not their relationship) off. Jack meekly agrees, but neglects to tell him about her pregnancy...

So what would have happened? Obviously the pregnancy would not have remained a secret for much longer, but other than that I have NO idea. While there are a lot of websites that mention "Jack and Jill", that's all they do, just mention it. There seems to be little interest in the show, or what might have happened, and certainly did not garner the outrage like "Everwood" did (incidently both shows were written by Rita Mimoun!).

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Reaching waaaay back and pulling out..."Homefront"

I won't lie...I have always been fascinated by the 1940s. Despite the war, it has always seemed (and made to be seen) as one of America's most romantic periods in history. So it was no surprise to me that I became completely hooked on "Homefront" which first aired on ABC in 1991. It centered around three families, and a few others that interacted with them. There was the Sloans, the wealthy family who seemed to own everything in town, but most notably the factory which employed nearly everyone. Their son, Michael, is killed in the war and they are none to thrilled when an Italian-Jewish woman shows up and declares herself Michael's wife (pregnant nonetheless).

There is also the Metcalfs, who were really the center of the show. Anne was the widowed mother, her eldest Hank had just returned from the war, her daughter Linda was able to work in the Sloans' factory while the men were away, and her youngest son Jeff wanted to be a ballplayer but was sidelined with an injury.

The third family was the Davises, the african-americans who were employed in domesticity by the Sloans.

All of the families interacted on a regular basis, and the show never ran short of drama. While Jeff and his former brother's girlfriend, Ginger were the couple everyone routed for, I was always intrigued by Anne Metcalf's story line. She fell for union reveler Al, who was Jewish, and ended up pregnant.

Despite having great actors and story lines, it never had enough ratings to keep it going. So, while the show had an "ending" (the producers knew that most likely there wouldn't be a continuation, they did hold out a little hope and left somethings unresolved) there is some speculation as to what would have happened for season 3.

"If ABC renews Homefront, the series will include Cleveland's 1948 World Series victory" (John Kiesewetter "Homefront Role Easy for Chandler to Play" Cincinnati Enquirer Mar. 29, 1993).

"If ABC had granted Homefront a third season, [Tammy] Lauren ("Ginger") said, the plot would have found the wealthy Sloan family buying the town's television station, with Jeff and Ginger becoming TV stars in the vein of George Burns and Gracie Allen" (Rob Owen "Tammy Lauren Plays an Innocent...Again" Times-Dispatch July 31, 1993).

Sam Behrens (Phil Havel) told Soap Opera Digest that "he was very disappointed about Homefront not being picked up because he had been signed on as a regular cast member for the third season" and that he "had a great storyline" (Melinda Salsburey Homefront egroup Aug. 28, 2000).

"During a Prodigy chat after the end of the second season, the creators said that they were going to have Caroline's [first] husband from England come to River Run (apparently she was a bigamist)" (Alen Homefront egroup Apr. 10, 1999).

According to Lynn Marie Latham, "If there had been a third season, Anne and Al would never have left in the first place. But Hank would not have come back no matter what" (Homefront egroup Apr. 19, 2003).


Would Caroline turn out not to have divorced Charlie after all?: "Did we ever see Caroline's divorce decree? I don't think so. I think we just saw her en route to Reno. Did anybody else in town know about the 2-year rule? Maybe not. Maybe - just maybe - Caroline knew her first husband was alive and she was bigamously married to Charlie, so she didn't have to get divorced. She just had to pretend she had and if anybody from the I.N.S. showed up at her doorstep, she was still 'legally' married to Charlie" (Bethany Rutledge Homefront egroup Mar. 31, 2003).


Thanks to the Ultimate Homefront Episode guide for posting and collecting the season three speculations and teasers!!!

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Dark Angel returns...in re-runs anyway

Dark Angel has recently started to run again on the SCI-FI channel, Monday nights from 8:00 pm to 12 am.

I was able to watch the majority of the 2nd season when it aired on SiTV a few months ago, and was surprised at how little I remembered from Season 2, which makes me think I didn't watch it for some reason (mostly likely it aired against another, more important show and I continually forgot to tape it). It's quite a bit different from Season 1, and explores much more of the show's mythology. It definitely would have been nice to have another season to watch.

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Even More About Everwood...the show fans refuse to let die!

Alas, poor Everwood, I knew it well.

Everwood is gone, and I think nothing short of a miracle will bring it back. Sets are down, the actors are moving on, but the fans just won't let go. I do understand...I can't bear to erase it from my DVR! The ending was beautiful, and it really was hard to say goodbye.
So what have the fans been doing? Short of begging at Dawn Ostroff's feet (the new CW CEO or whatever her title is), they have gotten a Ferris Wheel and are having it delivered. Here is a snippet about it from www.everwoodmusic.com:

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In the series finale of Everwood, Amy Abbott placed a Ferris wheel outside of Ephram Brown's apartment to express her love and affection for him. Everwood fans reflect a similar love and appreciation for the show and everyone that made it ring true. Deeply saddened by the premature end of the series, they have decided to do something. What started out as murmors in the internet community quickly became something bigger, much bigger. At that point Everwood Music founded Project: Save Everwood to organize those efforts under one banner.

On Monday, June 19th, an ad ran in Variety -- made possible solely through generous donations of Everwood fans -- thanking and congratulating the cast and crew and inviting them to a grand gesture. That grand gesture is a Ferris wheel in honor of the cast, crew and everyone involved with the show. To date, thousands of dollars have been raised from fans around the world. However, more money is still needed to make this event everything that the fans would like it to be. If you would like, you may donate to the Ferris wheel fund. Any donation would be greatly appreciated.

The Ferris wheel event will be held on Friday, July 21st from 1pm to 6pm PST at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School (3333 West Oak St., Burbank, California 91505). The time was chosen to fit in with the TCA Awards and the location is less than a mile and a virtual midpoint between The CW offices and the Warner Home Video. It is important to stress that, just because the specifics have been announced, does not mean we're no longer in need of donations. We still greatly need and appreciate the generosity that has propelled us this far. Please follow the link for a more detailed invitation.

I think this is such an awesome idea, and wish I could have been there to see it. Hopefully, someone will post some footage for us fans who live across the country (and those across the ocean as well). I doubt it will work, but I really hope the CW's decision comes around to bite them someplace unpleasant!



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Dead Like Me --Finds a New Life on Sci-Fi

"Dead Like Me" was an AWESOME show that originally aired on the Showtime network. It ran for two years and starred Mandy Patinkin, Jasmine Guy and Ellen Muth. Ellen Muth played Georgia Lass ("George"), who was killed by a falling satellite not long after turning 18. She was returned to life to be a "reaper", someone who would take the soul of a person who was just about to die and help them cross over. Ellen was today's typical teenager--snarky, funny, occasionally lazy with a questionable work ethic, but with a good heart. For reasons known only to Showtime (budget issues I'm sure), DLM was cancelled after only two seasons. A real shame because DLM had a great emsemble cast, and there was real growth in all of the characters, and the writing was smart and sharp. But at least we weren't left with a cliffhanger ending as so many of the other shows on this blog have.

While I have been unable to discover what would have been for season 3 (though I'm still searching), I do know that the show has just started running again on the Sci-Fi network on Tuesday nights (I believe the premiere was 7/18).
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More about "Angel's" early cancellation

For more information about the cancellation of "Angel" first read up in our archives about the ending of the show...and then find out why it was cancelled over at Popcorn & Twizzlers, a great blog featuring television and movie reviews.

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"Tru Calling"

While I never quite got into "Tru Calling", I was intrigued by the premise (and possibly I stopped watching because it conflicted with another show). Tru Davies, played by Eliza Dushku of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame, was a young woman who discovered that she had the ability to jump back in time 24 hours, and affect the lives of someone who was in trouble (and most likely ended up dead). While the premise certainly drew on other shows ("Quantum Leap", the aforementioned "Nightmare Cafe", "Sliders") it was unique it its own way, and fans certainly weren't happy when the series was given the axe.

I was able to find the following information on what would have happened should been given a third season:

There are two great Powers in the universe concerned with humanity's fate; one that laid out the original plan that history has been following since the beginning of time, and one that wants to change that plan (what ultimate goal either side is working toward remains unknown, possibly even to the show's creators). The first power is more strict and authoritarian in its view of humanity, whereas the second is "more accepting of individual freedom and choice."
Whenever someone dies who may be important to the overall scheme of things (and, presumably, in a way that would serve the second power's purposes), an agent of that power approaches the person and offers them a choice- they can either move on, or return and have a shot at resuming their old life. If they want a second chance, all they have to do is ask for it. If they do, Davies goes back and relives the day, with a view to saving that person's life.
Every time Davies saves someone who has asked for her help, she steers the destiny of our world a little farther away from what the first power intended, and a little closer to what the agents of the second power want.
Harper, Davies' nemesis, has a very big advantage over her, her father was his mentor(who was Harper's predecessor, just as Davies' mother was hers). Davies is working in the dark, learning as she goes along, but Harper has an older, more experienced counterpart who can share knowledge and wisdom from a long line of predecessors with his young protege. Davies, of course, was robbed of this potentially crucial advantage because of her mother's untimely death.
Harper became Davies' counterpart after being approached by agents of the first power during his near-death experience. They offered him a choice: he could either die, or return to Earth to do their bidding. Once he got back, his memories of the encounter were hazy, and he didn't initially understand what was happening when his days started rewinding (at around the time that Davies' did). He eventually wound up in an asylum, which is where Davies' father found him.
The central conflict of the show's mythology was never meant to be perceived as a simple, straightforward "good versus evil" scenario. Rather, the creators intended to portray the battle in such a way that either side could conceivably be right- and, at the very least, to show that the soldiers on both sides certainly believe that what they're doing is right. Harper and Davies' father truly believe that she is disrupting the balance of the universe by doing what she does; Davies, of course, believes otherwise. Who would have turned out to be right? These are the questions the producers of the show meant for us to ponder.
A future storyline on the show would have dealt with the possible repercussions if Harper ever decided that he no longer wanted to fulfill his end of the bargain (i.e., to continue doing the first power's bidding).
Another storyline (which was actually in progress when the show ended) would have dealt with the consequences of Davies' saving someone who hadn't asked for her help. Because that person was either never given the choice to come back, or was and chose not to take it, he would have essentially lost his soul after being saved by Davies, and would then have begun spiralling into increasingly menacing behavior as his humanity faded away and his personality began to disintegrate.
(From Wikipedia, The Online Web Encyclopedia)

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"Eerie, Indiana"

"To whom it may concern. If you're reading this document, it means I'm either dead - or disappeared under mysterious circumstances. My name is Marshall Teller. Not long ago I was living in New Jersey just across the river from New York City. It was crowded, polluted, and full of crime. I loved it. But my parents wanted a better life for my sister and me - so we moved to a place so wholesome, so squeaky clean, you could only find it on TV. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, my new home town *looks* normal enough, but look again. What's wrong with this picture? The American dream come true, right? Wrong. Nobody believes me, but this is the center of weirdness for the entire planet. Eerie, Indiana. My home sweet home. Still don't believe me? You will."


Reaching again into the vault of my mind, I was reminded of this show that aired in 1991. It had almost a full season complement (19 episodes) before it was cancelled. "Eerie, Indiana" was told from the point of view of Marshall, who kept a diary of all the strange things that happened in Eerie (which, not so ironically, was supposed to be the most normal town in the US). Eerie was a place where Elvis was sited regularly, dogs could sometimes talk (and didn't they *ahem* have a bone to pick) and where people (mostly kids) would sometimes disappear and artificially intelligent ATMs made friends with a little boy and gave him lots of spending money. The show was great and inventive, "Twilight Zone" meets "X-Files" (though X-Files didn't premiere until 1993)...and is actually out on DVD!! While it is currently unknown what plans there were for a second season, I'm sure it would have dealt more with "old" Marshall and how he ended up being able to go into the past (or did he exist at the same time...) and more of the shows mythology.

Welcome to Eerie, Indiana, Population: 16,661.

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...and now back to our show, "Nightmare Cafe"

I'm not sure what made me think of this show last night (though I can tell you it was late, and I was REALLY tired), but this show about a cafe floating in space, starring none other than Robert Englund (of Freddy Krueger fame), popped into my head. I couldn't remember the name, but a little IMDB.com research reminded me the name was "Nightmare Cafe." While only 6 episodes of this show ever aired back in 1992(!) apparently it left some sort of an impression on me.

"Nightmare Cafe" told the story of Frank and Fay, who after a mysterious brush with death, found themselves both at the Cafe, where they met Blackie, an enigmatic man who appeared to know much more than them about their current situation, but delighted in not sharing it. When Frank and Fay tried to leave...they either ended up right back in the cafe...or found themseles floating through space. In the premiere, each of them was given the chance to go back and change the fates that lead them to the Cafe in the first place. From then on, working together, they would help others who somehow, magically, stumbled into the Cafe.

The show was really neat, had a great premise, and died WAAAAYYYY before its time. Because there isn't a ton of information on what would have happened (this show was on TV before the internet became so popular) we did manage to dig up some interviews where actress Lindsey Frost ("Fay") alluded to the fact that perhaps she and Frank may have met in a previous life and that future episodes would have explored their connection.

Unfortunately, this show is not available on DVD, though it does occasionally air on the SCIFI channel.
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More Everwood Scoopage

While fans are still pleading hard for another season of "Everwood", it looks like it is really and truly done. But, thanks to "Watch With Kristin" over at www.eonline.com, we did get a little bit more information as to what would have happened next season. Kristin asked Greg Berlanti if [Hannah and Bright] would have ended up together and lived happily ever after. " 'I think ultimately, yes, definitely,' Berlanti said. And here comes the shocker! (At least it was to me.) 'I can tell you that one of my sort-of plans for the year was that I was going to temporarily put Hannah and Ephram together," he revealed, 'and sort of twist everything up a bit. But I still would've brought the core couples back together in the end.'
"He talked about the alternate ending (in which Madison reappeared) and said: 'To be honest, those cliffhangers were more setups for next year. We would've had almost the same number of payoffs for sort of the life of the series. Because we would've been trying to sort of redefine the show next year, I think, in certain regards. It was sort of a pivotal moment. Had the show gone on, I think it would've started to focus more on Andy's relationship with Delia, and, of course, it's not so much a widower's journey anymore, because we would've done the wedding, and there would've been some other very rewarding storylines.'"

Yikes! Hannah and Ephram??!?!?!???! I think I'm almost happy to have seen the end if that were true (though I can imagine it would have been something like...well, maybe I have a crush on her/him, with some sort of an awkward kiss, and the realization that they are more like siblings).

Well...there ya have it, again...kind of.


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If you want to watch all of your old favorite shows that have come out on DVD, but can't afford to purchase or rent them (which, with some series having several discs as well as numerous seasons--you could probably buy them for what it would cost to rent them all), I suggest signing up for Netflix. This is a great service, and usually has those hard to find DVDs as well as most TV series as they are released (this is how we were able to watch the first season of "Dead Like Me'--post about DLM coming soon. tv television

"Joan of Arcadia" update

As I posted before, I had sent an e-mail to Barbara Hall's production company, hoping that they would be able to provide me with some information as to how the next season of "Joan" might have progressed. While I didn't receive the answer I was looking for, I did receive a nice response from Ms. Hall's assistant, Amy. While she didn't have any further information as to the direction "Joan" would have gone, she did tell me that Ms. Hall has not given up the idea of writing a book that would detail the rest of Joan's story.

So, perhaps fans of the show can send their support via e-mail (I won't post it here, but a little googling might find it) and hope that a resolution comes soon.

Thanks, Amy!
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Heroes ...taking slight departure here

While I haven't seen anything but a four minute preview, this show looks AWESOME! And, as all awesome shows seemed to get cancelled before their time, I'd like to make sure this one gets a decent shot at staying around. So, I'm taking this opportunity to talk about the show, make sure you watch the clip on NBC and then watch this show so that it doesn't go the way of all the good shows listed below.

Heroes begins around a solar eclipse that changes people all over the world. Seemingly ordinary people suddenly begin to discover that they can do something extraordinary. A young man in Japan discovers he can stop time at will (and possibly teleport himself); a cheerleader discovers she is "unbreakable", a Vegas stripper learns her mirror image has a secret; a young man becomes to believe he can fly and a painter discovers he is painting scenes of the future. There are others as well...but I don't want to spoil it all here. It completely sounds like it could be hokey and cheesy, but watch the preview at NBC and see for yourself.
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Everwood

Updated 6/8/06...Contains SPOILERS if you have not seen the series finale.

While it's not dead yet, especially if fans have their way, "Everwood" seems to be going the route of many a good show...cancellation. Admittedly, I didn't watch this show from the very beginning (I caught on later in the first season), but have definitely caught up over the past three years. This is such a terrific show, with great writing and characters you really care about.

While we will see an ending with some closure to the show (two endings were filmed just in case it was not renewed), there were indeed plans for the show's fifth season. According to "Watch With Kristin" at www.eonline.com, plans were made to have Sarah Lancaster's character, Madison, return to Everwood and surprising Ephram. That would have been interesting, given Ephram's realization that he still loves Amy (after all "She's his lobster")and Amy's finally coming around to realize that Ephram is who she is meant to be with. This show had a great ending (though I thought a flash forward might have been nice...maybe three years or so, to see Lily still with the Abbotts, Andy and Nina expecting, or toting a toddler, and Ephram and Amy getting married. I'm still on the fence about Hannah and Bright as he really did something unforgivable...but the growth in his character in their final scene together was perfect. Perhaps the flash forward would only have them getting together at the wedding, now that they've both grown up and have changed even more--yes I like happy endings!).

In the meantime, lets show our support for the show at this site: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/saveeverwood. Who knows, maybe it will get picked up for a fifth season...stranger things have happened.

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Alias

Even though Alias was given a proper send-off, there were still a few lingering questions that Kristin Veitch was kind enough to post in her weekly column on www.eonline.com (BTW a great source for scoops...just read her chats!).
These answers come from Jeff Pinkner, executive producer on the show:


Q: In the finale, did Irina say, "Rambaldi is alive," "Rambaldi is love" or Rambaldi "is life"?
A: "Rambaldi is life...Through him we can live forever."

Q: What was the horizon?
A: The horizon was the Rambaldi-designed glass sphere that activated the pedestal in his tomb and then received the liquid from the hovering red ball.

Q: Did Irina fall on the sphere? In the final shot, one hand was bent behind her back after she fell. Could she have squished the ball but then have been resurrected by it? It did take a while to work on Sloane.
A: No, the ball rolled away, presumably recovered by Syd, who would have had it destroyed.

Q: Given the actions of Nadia at the end of the show, was she truly just a figment of Sloane's imagination/conscience?
A: She was his conscience. I think killing Nadia--whom he deeply loved--caused some sort of emotional/psychotic rift for Sloane.

Q: Is Sloane going to live forever under a rock, or is he eventually going to die?
A: Sloane is immortal, living forever buried 200 feet beneath the earth.

So there ya have it. Hopefully Kristin will get some answers from JJ Abrams about the meaning of the highlighted letters throughout the 5 seasons and the meaning of the number 47.




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Quantum Leap

"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and Vanished...He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."

And so began each episode of the fantastic show "Quantum Leap." Sam (Scott Bakula) spent 5 seasons leaping around "from life to life" including his own, his friend Al's (Dean Stockwell) his great-great grandfather during the Civil War while fixing things that had apparently gone wrong. As the shows mythology grew, Sam met and "evil leaper", Alia, and her hologram co-hort, Zooey and learned that maybe something, or someone was guiding him through time. In the series finale, Sam had leapt into a bar where he was himself, and a bartender, named Al, seemed to know more about Sam and why he was doing what he was doing. Sam learns that he can continue leaping, only now as himself rather than inhabiting someone else's body, and that he can put a very important wrong to right. It ends with Sam leaping to the home of Al's first wife (and presumably his true love) and tells her that Al didn't die in the war, but that he would come home to her (remember if you will that Al was a POW and presumed dead...by the time he returned, Beth had remarried). We are told that Al and Beth were eventually reunited and that Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.

Alternate endings have surfaced (which I know I have seen on television, but some claim can only be seen on the internet) where we see a picture of Al, Beth and their four daughters. Many have speculated that Sam couldn't have returned home even if he wanted to, because by changing Al's past, he never ended up with the project. They've also speculated that this would have undone all that Sam changed, but the shows creator Donald Bellasario says this was not the case. Another ending (shot but never aired because of the cancellation), a cliff hanger, we see Beth and the family talking about Sam and that he had leaped somewhere beyond his lifetime. Beth asks Al if Ziggy told him, he replies NO he just knows. She tell him she bets the Bartender knows, if he is God, he would know. It concludes with Al leaping to the bar and telling the other Al that he wants to be with Sam, as a leaper, with all the risks - next thing we see is Al in a space bar in the year one could assume 2099 and he is a woman.(courtesy of www.tv.com)

There is a TV movie in development, speculating to take place 20 years in the future(there are a few details at www.imdb.com..."Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward." Hopefully this will come to fruition and we'll get a little more closure as to what happened to Sam and Al.




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Dark Angel

"Dark Angel" was a futuristic show about a young girl, Max (Jessica Alba), who had been genetically engineered and had escaped, along with others like her, from their military handlers. From the shows opening credits :
"They designed her to be the perfect soldier...
a human weapon...then she escaped.
In a future not far from now...in a broken world...
she is haunted by her past.
She cannot run, she must fight...to discover her destiny. "

Max was aided by Logan (Michael Weatherly), a young man in a wheelchair who ran a Website called "Eyes Only." There he seeked to expose the corruptedness of their government and various mysteries.

Over the course of its two season run, many mysteries were exposed on Dark Angel. During the second season, Max brings down Manticore, but finds that she has an even more deadly enemy in a millennia-old breeding cult structured similar to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and now this cult is trying to hunt them all down. It turns out that a renegade from the cult, Sandeman, was largely responsible for Manticore's genesis. The villain Ames White is Sandeman's son, which essentially makes him Max's brother. The series was cancelled before the producers could really play with this dynamic, however (source: Wikipedia). So what were the marks? What was the plan for Max? According to the commentary on the Season 2 DVDs, the marks on her body were a code put there by Sandeman. Apparently White's cult was planning to poison the air to kill all of the transgenic mutants, and the runes contained the cure. Books are also available that tell about the events after the finale's stand-off.

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Joan of Arcadia

"Joan of Arcadia" was a terrific show about a 16-year-old who received regular visits from God, asking her to do different tasks. Joan, the titular character, was often cheeky and annoyed by God, who appeared in various forms like a Punk teen, a young girl, and and old woman to name a few. Joan never understood why God was asking her to do what he did until the end of the episode, where she would begin to learn about how we are all connected and that our actions, large and small, can make the biggest of changes.

Joan, of course, had the small circle of friends including Grace, Adam, her younger brother Luke and his on and off friend Friedman. Her family had recently been through the car accident of her older brother Kevin that had left him paralyzed from the waist down and left her mother questioning her faith. Over the two seasons, Joan's mother began to rediscover her faith (and realize that there was more going on in the world than she thought), Kevin began to create a new life for himself, her father struggled to make the world a better place and Luke just tried to get by.

The final few episodes introduced a new character, Ryan Hunter (played by "Prison Break's Wentworth Miller). Ryan seemed to be the ideal citizen, involved in not only the local school, but with the police, newspaper and community in general. Eventually he, or God (can't remember), that he could also see God, but had chosen a different path...one where he perhaps listened to someone else. God tells Joan that the past two years were practice for what was to come, preparation for her greatest challenge. Joan quickly discovered Ryan's darker side and it was clear that her greatest challenge would in some way involve him, though everyone thought he was a wonderful person.

Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to find anything concrete about what would have come in the third season. There are rumors that the show's creator/writer, Barbara Hall, will one day write a book about Joan's "greatest" challenge. I've e-mailed her without response (yet...I'm holding out hope). A poster on the Internet Movie Database claims the third season would have centered around twins--one who spoke to God, and the other the Devil, and the Devil himself (possibly Ryan?). Another website claimed that Joan's friends would eventually learn her secret and become her "army."

So nothing concrete...but I'll keep searching. In the meantime, fans can show their support at www.savejoanofarcadia.com.

Wonderfalls

"Wonderfalls" was a curious show (again aired on Fox...cancelled after only four episodes) about a young college graduate who returned to her home town only to work in a souvenir shop. In each episode, the main character Jaye, was instructed to do things by inanimate objects in the store that would come to life with the purpose of giving her instructions. It was so abruptly cancelled, it wasn't even given the honor of a cliff-hanger. Originally there were only 13 intended episodes that are now available on DVD From Amazon. All thirteen episodes have aired on the LOGO network, which is limited in availability.


From Wikipedia.com
Although the series creators had intended for the 13 episodes of Wonderfalls to tell a standalone story (perhaps anticipating cancellation after the first season), apparently the writers were already thinking as much as two years ahead. According to an interview featured on the 2005 DVD release of the series, the producers revealed that they already had plans for the second and third season. In the second season, Jaye’s therapist would document their sessions, eventually publishing a book on her, which would lead to her being institutionalized with “Jesus Syndrome” in the third season.

Angel

The series "Angel" a spin-off from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" featured the titular vampire with a soul who was struggling not only with his inner *ahem* demons but also with stopping an evil law firm, Wolfram & Hart, from destroying the world (or as we supposedly found out in one episode that Earth is Hell and they're just trying to keep it that way.

The final season of Angel brought many changes. Angel's nemesis Spike returned, first as a ghost and then as a "full-blooded" vampire. Fred was killed by Illyria's takeover of her body and Wesley was killed in the final episode (a shame too, because his character had grown so much). The final episode of the series left Angel, Illyria, Gunn and Spike fighting a horde of demons that had arisen and...that was it. We were left not knowing whether they lived or died.

Well, as it turns out, that was exactly the way the creator of the show, Joss Whedon, wanted it. In an interview with Whedon on www.zap2it.com, Whedon said the following about the untimely demise of "Angel": "It isn't the end of all things. It's not a final grace note after a symphony they way 'Buffy' was," Whedon says. "We're definitely still in the thick of it. But it is and was meant to be the final statement about 'Angel.' The point of the show is you're never done, and whoever survives the show to get that point will embody it." Though, Joss went on to say, that should Angel have survived to the sixth season, "[there] would have been some serious chaos."

So, while cancelled before it's time--and, sorry Joss--leaving us with a cliffhanger, those are the final words about the show. However, it doesn't mean it is the end of all things "Buffy" and "Angel" as rumors have been rampant about TV and big screen movies featuring some of the characters from the shows. For more information about Angel's demise, and the truth about WB's treatment of the show and reasons why it was cancelled, check out Popcorn and Twizzler's blogpost on Angel. Antha's got a great story, as well as more reviews about TV shows and movies!

Now and Again

For "Now and Again" fans, the final episode left us with a doosy of a cliffhanger. Following a family dinner on Thanksgiving, Michael (Eric Close) decided to make an escape with his wife and daughter, with Dr. Morris and the government hot on their trail. I was able to find this article on Cinescape.com from Glenn Gordon Caron, creator of the show:

From www.cinescape.com:


THE FEELING YOU WERE LEFT WITH IN THE CLIFFHANGER WAS THAT THE SHOW’S FOCUS WAS GOING TO CHANGE TO A MAN ON THE RUN TYPE SHOW, ALA THE FUGITIVE.


We had the whole thing figured out. It would have been another two, possibly three, episode arc at the beginning of the season, but we would have gotten back to the status quo. Lisa and Heather would have been okay; would not have known that Michael was, in fact, the man they once knew. They would have known something different that would have answered a lot of questions for them, but which in fact would not have been true. The Eggman would not have been done away with, and the big confrontation was going to be between Michael and Mankind [the wrestler]. We had a whole number of ideas worked out for next year, so it was frustrating.


WOULD THIS HAVE CHANGED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MICHAEL AND THEO?


The way the thing was constructed was that, in theory, it wouldn’t have. Ultimately, without going through the whole thing, you would have gotten back to something very much approaching the status quo that you had previously.


IT’S JUST THAT YOU WOULD THINK THAT THEO WOULDN’T TRUST HIM ANY LONGER.


Exactly, but, again, with everything that was going to play out, that wouldn’t have been the case. Without giving too much away, it would have worked in the same way that it did in `Deep in My Heart is a Song`, where they completely changed the relationship. That’s where Theo basically kidnapped Michael and was prepared to take Michael home when he was in the coma, and then a week later you have the Bob Balaban show where he basically kills for Michael. In that same way, Michael was going to that sort of thing for Theo.


What was always great about the show — wow, that sounds immodest — what was always compelling, was that we were very willing to take the characters all the way to the margins in terms of their characters, because I always believed that the bonds between all of them were strong enough that you could always bring them back. That was part of what the cliffhanger was all about. You look at the cliffhanger and you think, `Well, there’s no way this is ever going back to the way it was,` but in fact there was a plan to do just that. And it wouldn’t have all just been a dream.


Ahh...so there it is. Not terribly in depth, but some amount of closure.

John Doe

Imagine my surprise when I found this favorite replaying on the SCIFI network last night at 7 p.m.! I think Dominic Purcell ("John", currently playing Lincoln Burroughs on Fox's "Prison Break") is a great actor, and this was a GREAT TV show. For a quick recap, John was an amnesiac with incredible mental powers (it seemed as though he knew everything there was to know about everything, except, of course, for his identity)and who also only saw in black and white, except for the occasion burst of color (later leading into some sort of psychic ability). His two friends were a cop, Frank, and Digger. Over the course of the season John solved several mysteries and helped many people all while searching for the truth about himself and keeping out of the way of The Phoenix Group, an organization who, as it turns out knew more about John than John. In the series finale, it was exposed that Digger was a member of the Phoenix Group.

Purcell had recently given an interview and revealed the following:

"'Apparently I was the messiah returned," Purcell said, confirming an earlier report in Entertainment Weekly. As for the Phoenix group? 'They were working for the Vatican. ... The Catholics. They didn't want it to be revealed that the true Christ had returned.'

Purcell's character had actually either died or come near death, when all knowledge is revealed, then returned with no memory of his past life."

Purcell did not reveal, however, John's true name.

Interview courtesy of SCIFI Wire.

Lois and Clark: The New Adventures...

For fans of this show, such as myself, I was soooo angry when they cancelled. As you may recall the final episode, entitled "The Family Hour" centered around Lois and Clark's parents being kidnapped, and consequently rescued by Superman. The ending was the real shocker, when Clark awakes, hearing something no one can. Lois follows him downstairs, and into the den, where they discover a baby, wrapped in a Superman blanket with a note asking them to take care of the baby.

This abrupt ending left everyone wondering...who was the baby, was it theirs somehow (even though they had been told they wouldn't be able to have children). According to an interview with one of the show's producers, she said that the baby, a boy, would have been a descendant of Lois & Clark's from the future. The same time period Tempus was from. He gave few specifcs but said that the child was sent to the past as protection from something or someone. A side effect of his superpowers would have been excelerated aging. The intent was to cover all of this in a extended story arc at the beginning of a season 5.

So, while not as satifying as actually seeing what would have happened, as least now we have some idea.

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