It’s now official. After letting fans down gently a few weeks ago, ABC has now wielded the axe and cancelled Revenge after four seasons.
Exec producer Sunil Nayar confirmed to EW:
We can officially tell our fans that this will be the end of the story. We’ve been talking to the network and we all just wanted to make sure that we felt very confident. Now that everybody has seen the finale—which is fabulous—everybody understands that as much as we all adore the show, it has hit exactly the mark it needed to to end. This is the series finale of Revenge that will be airing in a couple weeks.”
While plans for a fifth season exist, the show will now conclude after the fourth season (now series) finale on May 10:
“We certainly had a pitch of how the show could go on, but this is why I feel so grateful to the studio and the network because they also erred on the side of creativity,” Nayar says. “The show is still popular, it’s loved worldwide. I can see why all the arguments from even an economic standpoint to maybe keep it going, but at the end of the day—kind of like they had with Lost—they support creativity above all. They really got the sense with us as their partners that we all came up with a great way to end these stories.”
With the series finale titled “Two Graves,” will Emily Thorne wind up in the cancellation graveyard alongside the show? Nayar adds:
“There are epic emotional moments in the finale. There are really shocking things that happen in the finale. It’s a tricky thing because the fans are such passionate lovers of the show and we really want to give them what they want, but the hard part about a finale in a show like this is you want to give them some of what they want, some of what they don’t know they want yet and some of what they never expected, and it needs to be a perfect mix of all those things. I truly believe our finale is the perfect mix of all those three things. I think they’re going to be extremely satisfied.”
RIP.
Sharon says
April 30, 2015 at 16:29Are you crazy this is the best show. I watch from day one and now you broke my heart.
You should look up the ratings again I think you missing something. Every time a good show comes on and it gets cancel something wrong. There’s very few shows worth watching and Revenge is not one of them. Sorry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG MISTAKE– HUGH MISTAKE
AndromedasDragon says
May 1, 2015 at 08:39I liked this show at 1st, it was some light hearted trashy fun. But at this point the repetitive Soap Opera style theme about mean people in the 1% has become SO painfully boring and such a waste of time there are so many other things to watch and things to be doing other than watch Revenge. It lost its novelty after season 2. ABC seems to be trying to bring in some fresh and edgy idea’s. That’s great, I hope they can pull it off.
AG says
July 27, 2015 at 12:15I gotta concur with AndromedasDragon on this one. We watched it and the first few seasons were good but then they messed with the overarching story of Emily and her childhood sweetheart and blew the story out of the water. It literally got so soap-operay toward the end we would force ourselves to watch it and then boo at every terrible bit of overacting and terrible plot twist. Thank goodness ABC put this one out of its misery. Like I said, it was going in a good way but taking Jack out of the equation just messed everything up.