Update: 19:00 We've amended our earlier stating that it was definitely cancelled.
A lot of our readers have been emailing me and asking in the comments about wether or not Wayward Pines would be renewed/cancelled, especially after the latest promo was presented as "Series Finale".
It was only ever intended as a 1 Season show.
As what FOX decide to do with the franchise is not 100% clear currently.
Bummer, I thought the universe had potential for further exploration. But it's very enjoyable as a one season thing anyway.
ReplyDeleteSo i guess we will get satisfactory finale for this.
ReplyDeleteBut still sad, this universe has so much more potential to be explored.
A shame but what else could happen? I have not watched last night yet but it was only meant to be for 10 episodes
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm surprised; Wayward Pines did decent for summer and for FOX and it seemed to have potential for growth. After reading the article saying that season 2 was a possibility I considered the show a lock for renewal.
ReplyDeleteWell, it seems like there can be miniseries after all, but I'm sure that if WP rated higher, FOX would have gone for a second season
I don't think that was the issue. Had this planned for this summer or even this season all along, it would have been renewed at this level I think. The fact that all contracts whatsoever had long expired when it premiered probably makes it too much effort for not so big returns.
ReplyDeleteNot surprised, an really how could they have expanded into a second season on this after last nights episode..
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear this. Although I have enjoyed the show I think if something is advertised as a limited series they should stick to this.
ReplyDeleteThe show has been based on the complete trilogy of books and has done a pretty good job given the short amount of time they've had to explore the world. When it was billed as a TV event, I wasn't expecting it to go beyond the first season. That said, I hope the ending isn't as lame as it was in the books. Worst. Epilogue. EVER.
ReplyDeleteFinally someone who keep his word.
ReplyDeleteGood, as much as I love the show, they shouldn't pull an Under the Dome and disgrace it.
ReplyDeleteThey could have, the epilogue of the book allows the story to continue, but it's good that they stuck to one season.
ReplyDeleteI saw in the promo last night "epic series finale"
ReplyDeleteOn a sidenote, I saw the "Viewer Discretion Advised" disclaimer in the promo. That means the finale's going to be edgy and violent, which is good :D
ReplyDeleteI'm supposed to be okay with this but i'm not.
ReplyDeleteOH ok needed more but ok as long as it's full end
ReplyDeleteWell the ending better be very satisfying and leave no room for more or I'll be disappointed.
ReplyDeleteA bit sad but come to think of it, the show really delivered as a limited series. Hope this encourages networks to go for more such series based on books. Because there are a lot of great books that can be easily adapted for a limited run.
ReplyDeleteThis is very sad, after coming into the show a bit late, and picking up the reviews and the advance previews with such joy each week, I'm going to be disappointed to see Wayward Pines leave our screens. It's been a fun, mysterious and intense ride, I had hoped they may had played around with the books concepts/added new characters and storylines, although, I was always scared about where the show would go next. I'm upset at this reveal, however, I do hope Wayward Pines inspires a new generation of cryptic and sci-fi thrillers on TV.
ReplyDeleteNot surprised, considering how long it took to get on air it meant that the people involved had moved on.
ReplyDeleteJust what I wanted. The season has been powerful. A second season would have to be weak and drawn out. (See: Under the Dome).
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying the show, but if it was designed as a one season series, then it should remain that way. So I'm glad.
ReplyDeletegood! Some shows need to be one or just two seasons! I just hope that the finale will explain enough!
ReplyDeleteI figured this would happen, yet I was hoping that there would be some more story to tell. The show is so good and intriguing, I'm not ready to see it go.
ReplyDeleteIf they keep the book ending there is definitely more story to tell but in a way it's best left with the "what if" of it all.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad. I want one-season-by-design shows to be more of a thing anyway.
ReplyDeleteYup, I knew it. But they weren't saying that a few weeks ago (neither was this site), so of course thee were going to be emails, b/c once a "maybe they'll be a season 2" was announced, you didn't bother to bring it up again. So I don't blame the fans for constantly asking.
ReplyDeleteWell now I get to see if my ending is similar to theirs. Hahahaha
ReplyDeleteYou really need to watch last night's episode! Omg.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sad, omg :(
ReplyDeleteI get why it was only ten episodes, but it still makes me very sad to see the series come to an end. For me, it was easily the best summer show.
ReplyDeleteWell what would expect with a wafe like that
ReplyDeleteYes yes yes finally a miniseries that isn't renewed and only lasts one season. Can't wait to see.how it ends.
ReplyDeleteI guess that means we can expect pretty much the whole cast to die? As long as Pilcher gets his, I'm happy
ReplyDeleteYeah, like Fargo. While I loved it, it should have lasted one season
ReplyDeleteIt would have been renewed if it had been a hit.
ReplyDeleteFOX you suck ass, the ratings weren't that bad and they would have improved if there had been a season 2 but most people have given up on shows like this out of fear of really liking it only to have the POS network cancel it.
ReplyDeleteSome '"limited series" are meant to continue.
ReplyDeleteEvery single freaking time I get into a new series, it ends up cancelled. I had no idea though that this was only intended to be a 1 season deal.. fml!!!
ReplyDeleteThis has been one of the best show, it has so.much potential. All our friends watched it faithfully. It seems lately every time theres a good show on it gets cancelled! Maybe fox should ask social media instead of other rating ways! Wish they would consider a second season!
ReplyDeleteAnd if they had renewed it, then decided not to go forward with season 2, it would have been cancelled.
ReplyDeleteBut there was never any word.
ReplyDeleteReally?
ReplyDelete"It feels like a series, but not an open-ended one. It’s not episodic, it’s not procedural, it’s serialized. It’s perfectly in that space of six to 10 hours, like one of those old miniseries or the format that cable does so well" Donald De Line, EP
"I wasn’t interested in a TV series, you know, but this is a limited series, it’s a nice one, it’s sort of a patient, longer format, so you can kind of grow with the character" M. Dillon
"You are going to be satisfied at the end. This is truly a beginning, middle and end, 10-episode event series." Chad Hodge
There have been other interviews where the producers left this question open-ended. For example there's a TV line interview with the entire cast posted last year at this site where the interviewer specifically asks if there will be a second season and the answers are very cryptic. The producers have always stated that there would be a beginning, middle and end within the first season and that we would have a conclusion. But they also mention that it doesn't rule out the possibility of plot continuation with some of the remaining characters. In the interview, one of that cast members actually says that a second season will depend on us viewers. So I actually do think that at some point they were hoping for the possibility of continuing the story.and Fox decided not to renew it. Also, postponing the start date of the show by an entire year, made that even less possible.
ReplyDeleteI generally don't like to see series drag on forever either, but it also depends on whether or not I think there is more of a story to tell. I think this is the kind of series that could definitely have been extended beyond the books, even with a proper conclusion in the first season. I have a feeling that a lot of viewers may not be satisfied with the ending and will want more, but I hope I'm wrong!
This is what i hate about Fox, they don't have the balls to commit to a show and this is what we get. An awesome show with such great potential only to be slandered by fox and ending it at its prime. Boycott Fox everyone.........we should not stand for this.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more, this show had tons of potential for a second season and although it did not reach the heights of lost the possibilities were there. We need more sci-fy like this, i guess im going back to Real humans...
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this series and will watch all 10 episodes but what is the name of the episode everyone's claiming was shown last night and is it 1 of the episodes showing today ?
ReplyDeleteMost of the time networks like to tease viewers like "it's just a beginning, watch our show live, we'll give you candy etc. You're right that in this particular case they had kind of slammed the door for eventual progress before it even began. I didn't hope for it to last and right now I don't even want it to.
ReplyDeleteI understand that you want it to continue, because you like it. For me WP started quite good, but then every week I was getting less and less entertainment, so I wasn't even planning to watch second season.
Fargo is an anthology series. You saw how season 1 ends. Season 2 is going to be a totally different story.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteDamn,I really liked the show.
ReplyDeleteHow does it not make sense?
ReplyDeleteIf it had been renewed, then for whatever reason, season 2 (a) never happened or (b) started, but never completed, it would have been cancelled.
You can't cancel something that's finished.
Update: 19:00 We've amended our earlier stating that it was definitely cancelled. - if this show was originally intended to be 10 episodes than it wasn't cancelled it instead just ended as planned
ReplyDeleteIt's a miniseries that has been shot completely in advance over a year ago (it was actually intended to air last summer).
ReplyDeleteSo much for being "limited" then.
ReplyDelete"Limited" means limited number of episodes, not seasons.
ReplyDeleteIf that was the case, they should have called Orphan Black, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad as such from the very start but they don't. They're just regular drama series designed to last multiple seasons.
ReplyDeleteTelenovelas should then be considered as such since they're primarily designed to last a single season but contains more than a hundred episodes. Or non-US shows with predetermined one-off runs of episodes as few as 10 or as many as 24 or even 40 episodes with a conclusive ending.
There are 3 books so a lot more could happen. I've started reading the book trilogy since watching the show and it's really good the series follows the books really well.
ReplyDeleteI'm sad too I thought with the ratings they'd do more seasons. There are 3 books do it's not like they don't have any more story to show. Plus CBS' Under the done was originally supposed to be a 1 season special series and when it did so great they turned it into a full blown series why can't FOX follow suit. They always cancel all their great shows and leave the cartoons on for 30 yrs or air series out if order so every one is too confused to wasn't too watch 😣😤
ReplyDeleteThere's 3 books that this series was based on they followed books so they could have still expanded
ReplyDeleteUnder the dome was a limited series that did so well it was changed to regular series. I think they could have at least done 2 more seasons since they were following the books and it's a trilogy.
ReplyDeleteUnder the Dome was a limited series that was continued because it did so well and the viewers wanted more
ReplyDeleteHeck 4400 also started out as a limited series that a year later was turned into a full blown series
ReplyDeleteI'd rather watch a true limited series like Taken and The Lost Room than one pretending itself to be one. With that said though, I like The 4400 but never thought of it as a limited series, especially having had seasons.
ReplyDeleteBut was the first season close-ended?
ReplyDeleteThat's because 4400 was originally supposed to be limited. it wasnt until it became popular that they decided to make multiple seasons.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, if it's not close-ended, it's not as limited of a series as people would like to believe.
ReplyDeleteThe same way Ascension was billed as a limited series but given how the finale turned out, it can't be considered as one, just another canceled show with an unresolved cliffhanger.
It was a great show.
ReplyDelete*Spoiler* After the finale I wouldn't want to see the show go on w/out Matt Dillon. The kid was meh and they would just dick it up with more stupidness with his little girlfriend. In the end of the finale where his dad is about to blow himself up he goes running and hugging his little cult member girlfriend. That was pretty goofy. Also if he was asleep for 3 years, they seemed to show his dead dad hanging like it just happened y-day. Also what year it was was never even attempted to be reconciled.
At least fox didnt get a chance to ruin it.
Every show since the inception of television has been a limited series. Is there any show that's around today that was also around 70 years ago? Every series has a limited number of episodes....so it's limited.
ReplyDeleteGuiding Light since 1937, but every year of its TV run from 1952 onwards is counted as a season thus it lasted 57 TV seasons, on top of its over-all 72-year run.
ReplyDeleteAnd if every show has "limited" episodes, that would mean it has a beginning, middle and end, when when I mean "end", I mean a true ending to the story when not always do you need to stretch out multiple seasons to tell a single story that can be resolved in a single-season run.
ReplyDeleteBy saying that shows with shorter multiple seasons are considered "limited series", then it defeats the very meaning of what "limited" really mean. A limited series has a predetermined run where you can tell the story in whole with the amount of episodes you are given and airing them within a year.
Stained Glass is a limited series with a story entirely told within 18 episodes. Same goes for Glory Jane with a single story told across 24 episodes. The Prisoner reboot at AMC is only 6 episodes but told an entire story thus it is also a limited series, although more appropriately knowns as a miniseries, the limited series' shorter and much condensely tight version.
Gokusen is not a limited series as it had three seasons under its belt, same goes for Meteor Garden with 3 seasons. The 100 is certainly not a limited series especially with its expanding mythology that needed to be told across more than one season. SundanceTV's The Returned cannot be considered limited since the story there did not end and it will continue with a second season this year.
Guiding light is over. It has a finite number of episodes. There is a limit to how many episodes exist in the series. By it's definition, this makes it limited. It has nothing to do with a "beginning, middle or end".
ReplyDeleteIf something is not "UNlimited" then it is "limited". There is no show that will ever be unlimited. For this to happen, the show would have to go on forever into infinity.
ReplyDeleteLimited has a sure beginning, middle and end can be told in a predetermined short amount of time with a predetermined amount of episodes.
ReplyDeleteAnd we all know, no show billing itself as "limited" ain't doing any of that. Those shows keep jugging along and right before writers could even consider an endgame to their shows, the ax would fall on them without warning.
Regardless, it is now limited nor is it a limited series. It's a regular multiseason show whose storylines had to be told across seasons if not decades. That is not how a true limited series works.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you understand the point I'm trying to make or the meaning of the word "limited". The word limited does not only apply to television shows. It can apply to anything. If I never make another cent in my life, I would now have a limited amount of money. There would come a point that I would run out of money. The same is the case with a television series. There is a limit to the amount of episodes I can watch of Breaking Bad. Regardless of how many seasons it had or whether it had a beginning middle and end. Even if the series was just Walter White sitting in a chair for 65 episodes, it would be a limited series. Once I watched all 65 (or however many there were) episodes...there would be none left. THAT MAKES IT LIMITED!!!!! I don't care about the word "limited" in the sense that you're choosing to define it. I'm talking about the literal definition of the word.
ReplyDeleteLet's put it this way:
ReplyDeleteRegular/Seasonal series: Shows whose stories can be told across multiple seasons. This includes one-season shows that got canceled at the end of its run as their single season is designed to be the first of many planned seasons. And it is the standard format for majority of US shows regardless of their episode orders per season.
Limited series: A show whose story can be told in whole, with a beginning, middle and closure-filled end told within a single season run. It has a predetermined broadcast run that's usually last a year's worth at most. This also includes telenovelas.
Miniseries: The much condensed version of the limited series, a younger and petite sibling, whose single story can be told for far fewer episodes than the rest of the limited series.
Doesn't matter. By literal definition (not the modified definition you've provided here) all television series' are limited.
ReplyDeleteNot really. You just took the term limited literally and expand it beyond the topic of conversation.
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