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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’s” 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 …

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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.

CBS has decided not to renew the freshman vampire drama Moonlight for a second season, Variety reported.