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Post by badcop187 on Jun 6, 2006 19:13:24 GMT -5
FX Orders Final 'Shield' Season Creator Ryan Will Remain at Helm By James Hibberd FX will conclude its police drama "The Shield" with a 13-episode seventh season in addition to the upcoming 10-episode sixth season. Creator Shawn Ryan will continue as showrunner, shepherding the series to its conclusion after 88 total episodes.
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"It has always been our intent to have the show exit television as it entered, as one of the best dramas series ever," said John Landgraf, president and general manager of FX Networks. "We're thrilled Shawn has come up with a great way to end the series and that it will require one final season for his vision to reach completion."
For its most recent season, original episodes of "The Shield" averaged 2.8 million total viewers and 1.8 million adults 18 to 49, more than double the network's first-quarter prime-time average.
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Post by badcop187 on Jun 6, 2006 19:16:20 GMT -5
Looks like the shield is considering the back 10 season 6!
More on Season 7 being the last
Breaking News
FX Renews Shield, Dishes Dirt
By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/5/2006 5:07:00 PM
FX has picked up a seventh and final season of The Shield. Thirteen new hour-long episodes are scheduled for late 2007 or early 2008. The series’ sixth season, 10 episodes long, begins in early 2007.
Shield creator, executive producer and writer Shawn Ryan will continue in those roles for the last two seasons, which will bring the series’ episode total to 88.
The provocative show, FX’s first original drama, has been one of basic cable’s biggest hits since its debut in 2002, becoming ad-supported cable’s first series to win a Golden Globe for Best Drama. FX also confirmed it had picked up 13 episodes of Dirt, a new original hour drama about a tabloid magazine and starring Courteney Cox.
The series was created by Matthew Carnahan and will be co-produced by FX, Touchstone Television and Coquette, Cox and husband David Arquette’s production company.
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Post by qb on Jun 6, 2006 19:57:54 GMT -5
WAAAA HOOO!!!
#yahoo# #yahoo# #yahoo# #yahoo# #yahoo# #yahoo#
Ok, I am a little nervous about the writers taking it out on top if they stretch to a 7th season... but the selfish, Shield-addicted me is tickled!!
And that means our members will be part of The Shield family on TSR for a good while yet. I love you guys, so YEAH! #yahoo#
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Post by Inside Man on Jun 6, 2006 22:27:35 GMT -5
OH f*ck YEAH!
[#username] and I think that is the best news ever!!!!!
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Post by striketeamwashere on Jun 6, 2006 22:33:07 GMT -5
damn right
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Post by Jan El Señor on Jun 6, 2006 23:08:51 GMT -5
OH f*ck YEAH! [#username] and I think that is the best news ever!!!!! Almost got me, a**hole....
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Post by jimmycracker on Jun 6, 2006 23:16:37 GMT -5
OH f*ck YEAH! [#username] and I think that is the best news ever!!!!! Almost got me, a**hole.... Um, hold on... what am I missing...?
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Post by eddiekaay on Jun 7, 2006 2:24:18 GMT -5
Here's the Variety article:
In a decision that keeps signature series "The Shield""The Shield" on the air through 2008, FX has ordered a final seventh season of Shawn RyanShawn Ryan's acclaimed cop drama. FX has greenlit a final batch of 13 episodes, which will premiere in early 2008. Sixth season, currently in production, will air early next year. CablerCabler ordered the sixth season -- then billing it as a set of bonus episodes -- last fall (Daily Variety, Oct. 13).
Creator-exec producer Ryan will continue to serve as day-to-day showrunnershowrunner on "The Shield." He'll also continue to run his drama "The Unit," which comes back this fall on CBS. Final season of "Shield" will go into production some time next year.
Star Michael ChiklisMichael Chiklis and the rest of the cast are onboard for the remainder of the show. Season five regular Forest WhitakerForest Whitaker will be back for a limited number of episodes in the upcoming sixth season.
FX president-general manager John LandgrafJohn Landgraf said he and Ryan had been talking for the past year and a half about how the dark drama about a conflicted cop would wind down.
"At first, we felt that if we stretched the show out indefinitely, it would inevitably become about cops and robbers, and what we love about it is the epic, Shakespearean storytelling it's known for," Landgraf said. "Shawn and I have been discussing how it will end -- we thought the Glenn Close season might be its last -- but he's got more to say. There is this whole new area he's going to explore."
Landgraf said the decision to renew was singularly motivated by a desire to maintain the skeinskein's creative integrity. "We're very proud of this show and have always wanted it to end in a way that is driven by the creative."
Helping matters economically is an influx of coincoin generated by the syndication and cable sales of "The Shield," which runs on stations during weekends and on Viacom cabler Spike TV during the week. "The Shield" is the first basic cable series ever to sell off-netoff-net to a competing basic cabler.
As to the possibility for seasons beyond the seventh: "I know what the arc is of the final season, almost through the last episode, and this is definitely the end of it," Landgraf said.
In its most recent season, "Shield" averaged 2.8 million total viewers. It's among the network's top scorers in the 18-49 race, averaging 1.8 million in its last cycle.
Landgraf noted that the order for more "Shield" would have no impact on whether or not potential FX drama "Lowlife" would move forward to series. Pilot stars Eddie IzzardEddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as married grifters. Cabler also just ordered 13 episodes of Courteney Cox showbiz starrer "Dirt."
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Post by eddiekaay on Jun 7, 2006 2:40:00 GMT -5
OH f*ck YEAH! Eddiekaay and I think that is the best news ever!!!!! And YES -- that is truly spoken.
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Post by jimmycracker on Jun 7, 2006 3:16:41 GMT -5
WTF is the joke. I don't comprehend.
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Post by Bad_Ass_Cop on Jun 7, 2006 3:18:20 GMT -5
Almost got me, a**hole.... Um, hold on... what am I missing...? I am missing something too, although I do agree It is the best news I have heard.
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Post by SMOKE-DOG on Jun 7, 2006 3:34:06 GMT -5
OH f*ck YEAH![#username] and I think that is the best news ever!!!!! Everybody who views this sees their own username [#username].
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Post by jimmycracker on Jun 7, 2006 3:52:56 GMT -5
Woah, seriously? That's really weird...
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Post by sveinsson on Jun 7, 2006 5:37:50 GMT -5
NO it's not...I am the supreme ruler of the galaxy. Muhahaha...
All hail the the mighty Sveinsson!
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Post by Bad_Ass_Cop on Jun 7, 2006 5:48:42 GMT -5
Thats pretty cool.
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Post by badcop187 on Jun 7, 2006 6:13:30 GMT -5
Just to Clarify, I think the articles are considering season 5's back 10 as season 6. So as I understand after the back ten, 1 more 13 episode season. But hell, 13 eps more than I thought we would get!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by eddiekaay on Jun 7, 2006 7:45:28 GMT -5
i thought for sure the next 10 was IT - GAME OVER -- now i GOTTA get on that staff!
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Post by -|E|- on Jun 7, 2006 9:15:10 GMT -5
[#username] would be good on the writing staff too!! I love ya'll! So glad there's another season of the show to keep us all hanging around together!!!
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Post by cheryle35 on Jun 7, 2006 11:10:54 GMT -5
I am thrilled that there will be another season, I'm sure it will be done in a way that will blow all our minds. So what happens when its off? I really love this rap I would hate to see it end...
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Post by shibby on Jun 7, 2006 12:13:34 GMT -5
[#username] would be good on the writing staff too!! I love ya'll! So glad there's another season of the show to keep us all hanging around together!!! That 'see your own name' script confuddles my teen tiny mind LOL and yes this is great news!!!
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