The recent vampire craze borne of
Twilight and
True Blood came a bit too late to save CBS'
Moonlight; the vampire detective series was canceled after one season. But it won a Saturn Award for best series on DVD last week, and executive producer Harry Werksman offered fans some hope that a
Moonlight movie could offer some closure.
We may never see Mick St. John in anything but reruns in the future, but “Moonlight” star Alex O’Loughlin is likely to show up again on CBS. O’Loughlin has signed a talent-holding deal with the CBS that also includes CBS Paramount TV and ABC Studios. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the one-year deal is geared toward finding a new series project for the actor.
Producer Mark Gordon (”Grey’s Anatomy,” “Criminal Minds”), whose company is based at ABC Studios, will develop a project around O’Loughlin. O’Loughlin, whose credits also include the films “August Rush” and “The Invisible,” is also able to pitch movie projects to CBS Films under the deal. “Moonlight” attracted a highly passionate fan base to CBS in the 2007-08 season that featured O’Loughlin’s vampire private …
Call the coroner ... "Moonlight" appears to be officially dead. The Hollywood Reporter says that last-ditch efforts to bring the CBS show back from the grave were unsuccessful, and that sadly fans have seen the last of Alex O'Loughlin as their favorite vampire detective. Although there was some interest from other parties, which some have rumored to be everyone from The CW to DirecTV, it wasn't enough to get anyone to sign on the dotted line to take on the expense of continuing the show through a second season. "The sets have been dismantled. The stage is being taken over by CBS' upcoming drama 'The Mentalist.' The billowy shirts are packed up. It's done," the story from the trade magazine's blog said. Despite the failure, those close to the show said there was significant interest ...
The fall 2007-08 television season started with quite a line-up: in addition to the existing TV series such as Stargate: Atlantis, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica, viewers received an impressive assortment of new shows to whet their science-fiction appetites. Unfortunately however, the vast majority of these because causalities of this schedule, and their ranks now include the wonderfully crafted (and shortened) second season of Jericho, time traveling Journeyman, Bionic Woman revved up reincarnation, immortality incarnate New Amsterdam and more recently Moonlight. So I ask you this: is this the end of long-running sci-fi? Each of these cancelled shows launched with an inspiring write-up, particularly Bionic Woman which, after only a handful of episodes, failed to deliver ...
Fans of CBS' canceled vampire drama Moonlight will convene in Los Angeles over Memorial Day weekend to rally in support of the show at Warner Brothers studios in Burbank, Calif. The rally is scheduled for 2 p.m. PT at the corner of North Pass and West Olive avenues.
There have been a lot of them, and much discussion of this issue and most of these series, but the painful cancellation of "Moonlight" just opens up old wounds from previously unjustly cancelled series. I think science-fiction and fantasy genre fans must have their hearts broken more often than fans of any other genre or forms of entertainment. Time and time again, we invest ourselves in a new series that hooks us, and has a lot of promise -- only to have those promises broken by greedy, gutless network executives. (I have other words for them, but I'm being charitable today.) I also wonder if the frequent abortion of the shows we come to love leads to any psychological disorders in viewers that network executives could be liable for creating. Is there room in the DSM-V for Post Traumatic ...
The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Sonata," the season finale for the CBS show, "Moonlight." The collective cry of millions of "Moonlight" fans everywhere could be heard at the end of this episode, the premature end of the series, and there is a lot to decry over losing in this series. The final episode, "Sonata," was an example of where this show could have gone. It had the potential to present many, many more compelling seasons. First, there was the setting of the opening scene. Any "Veronica Mars" fan will know that Hearst College was the college that Veronica and her bad boy boyfriend Logan (played by Jason Dohring) attended. Josef donated the money to Hearst College to open a new sports arena. When Mick (Alex O'Loughlin) asked Josef if he attended Hearst College, my ...
Fans of the cancelled CBS series "Moonlight" are trying to do everything they can to get the network to change its mind, especially since CBS reversed a similar decision just a year ago. But it appears that the network's resurrection of "Jericho" last season will actually do more harm than good for "Moonlight" as CBS has realized that fan passion doesn't always translate into ratings. Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, told Variety that there were a lot of lessons to be learned from the "Jericho" experience, which prompted the network to bring back the post-apocalyptic drama only to see its ratings far worse than before it was cancelled. That doesn't seem to faze "Moonlight" fans, however. The trade publication says that a demonstration was held last week outside the ...
SCI FI Wire has been inundated with misdirected e-mails asking for the SCI FI Channel to pick up CBS' canceled vampire drama Moonlight. SCI FI Wire is the daily news service of SCIFI.COM and has nothing to do with the programming or policies of SCI FI Channel.
CBS on May 14 unveiled a 2008-'09 programming slate that featured a heavy dose of new and returning supernatural and fantasy series--including the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Eleventh Hour and The Mentalist--but put a stake in its on-the-bubble vampire series Moonlight.
The freshman vampire series Moonlight won’t be back for a second year on CBS … but in today’s TV climate, of course, that does not necessarily mean permanent cancellation. Read more »
CBS has decided not to renew the freshman vampire drama Moonlight for a second season, Variety reported.
"It's true. We found out about an hour ago that 'Moonlight' has been officially canceled." Those words, sent out in a statement by "Moonlight" producers Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman, have struck a blow to an avid and loyal fan base for the show that won over skeptics and found its own footing in vampire lore.
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The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS from "What's Left Behind," the 15th episode of the CBS series "Moonlight." ÂHow do you tell a man twice your age that youÂre his father? This is the issue that Mick St. John (Alex OÂLoughlin) faces when he works on a case that reminds him of ÂWhatÂs Left Behind. A young boy, Jacob (Daniel Goldman from ÂDexterÂ), who believed he heard monsters in the wall, is kidnapped. Mick suspects it might be a vampire who kidnapped him. ADA Hottie Ben Talbot (Eric Winter) is on the case, and asks Beth (Sophia Myles) to help out, because she had covered two other unsolved cases like this while working at Buzzwire. The house is an old home, which has a coal chute that had tunnels that went through the walls and allowed him access to space in the ceilings and floors. ...
If you were hoping that ÂMoonlight would at least try to wrap up some of its stories for the end of its first season then youÂre going to be disappointed because according to show star Jason Dohring, despite not having a pickup for a second year the series will be ending with a cliffhanger destined to have fans screaming for more. And during the run up to the finale, ÂMoonlight will focus more on the vampire mythology that has thus far been more of a backdrop to ths show and also bring all the characters together for a common purpose: survival. ÂYouÂll see a lot more of the vampire mythology coming up, but in the final show, youÂll see us all kind of meet, Dohring told SciFi Wire. ÂWe have, like, a vampire conference. ItÂs really cool. And we each kind of have our place. ÂWe all get together ...
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