why? Does everybody want too much $$$?
Some good guesses here:
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Why did this happen? A complicated set of issues that revolve around money, it would seem. The bottom line is that "Deadwood" is expensive to make, cannot possibly be cut for use elsewhere (even on ad-supported cable), would not be co-financed by any other production company in Season 4 (unlike the very expensive historical drama "Rome," where costs are offset by foreign producers other than HBO) and would require HBO to pay the "Deadwood" actors to sit around while notorious clock-killer Milch works on a different HBO series, "John From Cincinnati." Nothing dramatically new in all of that except, and this a big exception, HBO balked at paying the tab.
Sopranos are done until 2007. Deadwood over. Now I'll have no problem whatsoever cancelling HBO until next year.
Sopranos are done until 2007.
What? There's more? I thought this last season was...the last season.
I've never watched the show, but I hear things.
Deadwood over.
Deadwood is airing season 3 this summer, AFAIK.
What? There's more? I thought this last season was...the last season.
There are eight more episodes left of "this season" which will air NEXT year. Pretty silly, mind you. But there it is. When Rome and the Sopranos return, I'll re-up for HBO. And hopefully get it at an introductory rate again.
Now I'll have no problem whatsoever cancelling HBO until next year.
We do this every season for HBO (Sopranos) and Showtime (The L Word).
There are eight more episodes left of "this season" which will air NEXT year.
What the crap? That's a hell of a fucking long midseason hiatus. And the episodes are already in the can, aren't they?
I dropped HBO and Showtime like hot potatoes when Dead Like Me and Carnivále were cancelled within a few months of each other.
Haven't really regretted the decisions, either.
I got a deal on my digital cable when I moved last month, so I have HBO for the first time ever, but only for four months. And, considering how much I'm watching it, I'll be sure to drop it after those four months are done, even though I did enjoy taping the uncut version of Band of Brothers from HBO On Demand over the weekend (my original recordings were from the History Channel reruns, complete with commercials and missing all instances of "fuck").
