Deadwood a goner? - BREAKING NEWS

i cant believe they're canceling this....TVsMatt's comment that "I never quite understand the logic of cancelling a show with not only a successful following but also critical acclaim in favor of the unsure thing" is so damn true....If it aint broke dont FIX IT.

A Save Deadwood web site has been created:

http://savedeadwood.net/

Also at the same talk, Milch mentioned that he had no plans of doing any other shows set in the present:



MILCH: Not even him. Especially not him, whom I find to be more of a genial boob than a moral menace. I think the war in Iraq has more to do with the media's abdication of its responsibilities than the deficiencies of our president. Through lack of informing vision, the media has infantilized the audience. The surrogate existence provided by television has come to supplant the emotional life of the populace. I've stopped doing series set in the present because the assault on the collective sensibility after 9/11 gave the populace so much fear, that they could only be placated with a three-week miniseries designed to tell them that they didn't need to fear danger here, because we were taking the war over there.




So, unless this surfer series would be a period piece, there is even more reason to not believe this story.

Uh, I'm fairly certain think this is NOT true. I attended a Q&A session with David Milch at MIT a couple of weeks ago and he stated that he planned on the FOURTH season of Deadwood being the last season (with the four seasons corresponding to the four years that the actual camp existed).


I full audio recording of the Q&A session along with a summary transcript is available here: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/great_writer.htm

From the summary transcript (SPOILER ALERT):


THORBURN: The time frame on Deadwood seems very tight, as if every episode begins just minutes after the last one ends. Do you envision every episode like that?

MILCH: Some episodes begin a day following their predecessors, but not always. I envisioned each season as one year. The camp was destroyed at the end of four years, and I wanted four seasons. One thing I knew about the third season was where I wanted it to end. There was an election at the end of the third year, and Bullock was defeated because George Hearst, the father of William Randolph Hearst, fixed the election. Bullock barricaded himself in office and wouldn't leave. I knew I wanted the third season to end with that episode, but we never got to it. I feel that the defining moment in American history is when George Washington turned down his chance to be king, and offered his sword to the Continental Congress. Swearengen persuaded Bullock to accept the results, to maintain respect for the democratic process. We never got there, so we're starting the fourth season with it.

What, is HBO turning into Showtime now? I never quite understand the logic of cancelling a show with not only a successful following but also critical acclaim in favor of the unsure thing. I understand non-pay channels have to go off Nielsen ratings in order to woo advertisers and whatnot but you'd think a channel like HBO would listen to the fans on things like this. Deadwood is one of the few reasons I subscribe to the 25 channel HBO suite (HBO East, West, Spanish, Esperanto, Family, etc). Ahh well...

.mf.

Deadwood is quite possibly HBO's finest program and not to renew after the 3rd season is devastating news. Absolutely bummed out about this.

Damn, I really liked this show!

First Sopranos---Now This? Come on HBO! STOP IT

Those %^&*$^&*# %^$%& *&*&%@#$@!!!

That just #$%&@$&&%&*(% sucks!!!!

That's too bad. I really like that show.