Letting its options for the cast expire as Season 3 drew to a close, and wanting "Deadwood" creator David Milch to focus his attentions on his next offering, "John From Cincinnati", HBO brass invited the auteur to wrap his Western with a six-episode final season.

Milch, though, wanted the usual 12. The parties found themselves at an impasse until June 2006, when Milch agreed to deliver proper "Deadwood" closure via a pair of two-hour TV movies, which 13 years later wound up being the 110-minute finale airing May 31.

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