The Castle Season 8 finale will also serve as a potential series ender, despite plans for Season 9.
With the future of the ABC procedural in doubt, the showrunners will hedge their bets by ensuring the Season 8 finale doubles as a possible conclusion to the series as a whole, TVLine reports:
When TVLine spoke to co-showrunners Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter about the fall finale, we pointed out that the series had been hovering — though quite steadily — around ratings lows since returning down in September. As such, the conversation turned to: Is there an end game in mind in the event that ABC doesn’t order Season 9?
“The reality,” Hawley answered, “is that [the network execs] won’t make that decision until very late. So our plan is just to tell a satisfying story and try to wrap up the season in an exciting way.”
And perhaps wrap up the series, as well. Which is precisely what series creator Andrew W. Marlowe and writer/wife Terri Edda Miller aimed to accomplish with last season’s finale.
“Andrew and Terri wrote it as if it was the series finale,” Winter reminded, “and there’s a very good chance that we’ll most likely be doing that here. We hope to come back for Season 9, but we have to act as if [we might not].”
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the status of Castle Season 9…
S.Orms says
There still could be much more to tell. Story line could go in many directions, given the chance. Have watched since the beginning & as they say, change is good. Saying something mean accomplishes nothing except ignorance & spite. I hope it goes on for More seasons & evolves like some other shows have. Realize sponsors are needed, but hope they love it too like so many others do.