ABC Cancels Castle After 8 Seasons

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Castle Canceled By ABC After 8 Seasons

[Mr. Television]

It's time.

[HarryWild]

Strange when Stania announced she was leaving, the rating jump 10%! The show was getting back to the same plots each episode in the later episodes of season 9 that was in season 1-6.

Both co-stars Fillon and Stania just keep asking for more dough at that same time the writers were tanking the rating. Something has to give at one ranking points!

[Edison]

Castle was a good read.

[HarryWild]

Originally Posted by Edison

Castle was a good read.

Are you referring to the books that were based on the Castle TV show?

[Edison]

Thinking of the series as a book. Reading the final chapter, tomorrow.

[HarryWild]

Originally Posted by Edison

Thinking of the series as a book. Reading the final chapter, tomorrow.

Yes, this will be the finale to close out the Castle Season 9? Should be interesting to see what takes place to end the series! Hopefully, it gets back the 2.6 rating from 1-6 seasons! Maybe Beckett decides to resign career and go with Castle together into the sunset!

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Many fans of ABC’s Castle and Nashville are heartbroken after learning the news this past week that both shows have been dropped from the network. The departure of Beckett (Stana Katic) and Lanie (Tamala Jones) had many viewers wondering if Castle would continue for a 9th season. Katic and Fillion’s feuds were rumored to be the reason for the show’s cancellation. The motives behind Nashville’s ending was less certain, with some fans wondering if it might have something to do with Hayden Panettiere’s decision to seek more treatment for postpartum depression.

After a week of speculation, ABC’s President Channing Dungey has disclosed the network’s reasons for cancelling the shows. In a conference call to press, Dungey said, “You have to weigh and measure a lot of different things and at the end of the day…even though both Castle and Nashville were wonderful shows for us and good performers for a long time, that the future for us did not necessarily lie in those shows.” Despite efforts to look for “the best creative and financial ways to make room” for the shows, Dungey stated that “decisions came down to the wire” and resulted in their cancellations.

For Connie Britton, who plays Rayna James on Nashville, the news didn’t come as a surprise. In an interview for Entertainment Tonight, Connie Britton stated, “I try to really put a silver lining on it and just say, ‘Hey, we got four years out of it and I really, really value the experience.’”

[Mr. Television]

Well it's better that Castle end rather then kill Beckett off. I saw last night's episode and it was right there what they were going to do. For a moment I thought they might let them both die. lol They should have cut that part out and just flashed ahead 7 years.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Television

Well it's better that Castle end rather then kill Beckett off. I saw last night's episode and it was right there what they were going to do. For a moment I thought they might let them both die. lol They should have cut that part out and just flashed ahead 7 years.

I thought they were going to die too, glad they gave them a happy ending instead.

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Stana Katic was kicked off the show
The first sign that something was amiss on the set of Castle came in April 2016 when ABC abruptly opted not to renew star Stana Katic's contract for a ninth season. According to Deadline, the decision was made due to "budgetary reasons." To add more fuel to the fire, sources claimed that Katic wasn't even approached to renegotiate her contract.

Even the occasional Castle*viewer was shocked by news of Katic's departure. Although the show was named after Nathan Fillion's character, Richard Castle, Katic's Kate Beckett had become an integral part of the show's storyline, especially after Castle and Beckett (known colloquially, if morbidly, as "Caskett" by fans) hooked up at the end of Season 4. At this point, moving forward without Beckett made absolutely zero sense.

Sure, high-profile cast members leave shows all the time—just ask David Duchovny of X-Files or Shelley Long of Cheers. But considering the timing of the news, plus reports that Katic didn't have a say in her exit, the whole thing felt strange, if not suspicious.

Tamala Jones got the boot, too
Katic's departure from the show was shocking in and of itself, but the announcement was made all the more crazy when another one of Castle's top female stars, Tamala Jones, left the show as well.*To be fair: having Jones continue to appear on Castle without Katic didn't seem plausible because her character, Dr. Lanie Parish, was Beckett's close friend. The duo's departure seemed to suggest*Castle was preparing for a major storyline shift in Season 9, which never would have worked because…

The show had evolved too much
In its coverage of Katic's shocking departure, The Hollywood Reporter noted that the shake-up could allow Castle to focus more on the show's week-to-week crime procedurals, rather than larger character arcs, relationship drama, and all that jazz. The show had already hinted it was heading in that direction when Castle and Beckett separated at the top of Season 8.

A shift like that would not have worked. Castle grew out of its procedural shoes a long time ago and had since become a show that many viewers invested in because of its characters. Returning Castle to your run-of-the-mill procedural drama would have set the show back years at a time when fans were expecting it to move forward. Given how upset fans, and the show's own cast, became over Katic's departure, it's impossible to imagine Castle returning to its roots without losing viewers.

Did Fillion and Katic hate each other?
Amid reports of Katic's exit, word got out that she and Fillion did not get along on set, much to the heartbreak of Castle fans everywhere. In fact, things allegedly got so bad that Fillion would often make Katic cry. "Stana would cry on set because Nathan was such a bully to her," a source told Us Weekly just days after Katic's departure hit the wires. Added a second source: "Stana would go in her dressing room and cry. A lot of people who work on the show don't like Nathan. It's not just her."

"The friction was very evident," the second source went on to say. "Nathan has been nasty to Stana for a long time. Stana was a pro, just wanted to get in there and do her job."

A rep for Katic denied any on-set tension. Fillion dodged the rumors, but his tepid "I wish her well" reaction on Twitter led many to wonder if the reports were actually true.

Ratings were sluggish
When you remove all the behind-the-scenes drama from Castle, ABC's decision to cancel the show might have been a lot easier and more rational than we initially thought. The show simply had not been pulling in the kind of ratings it used to. Its Season 8 premiere debuted to 6.84 million viewers, down about 4 million viewers from Season 7's start. That was likely an especially tough pill for ABC execs to swallow, considering Castle once averaged more than 12 million viewers for three consecutive seasons.*But the bleeding didn't stop there. In February 2016, Castle aired its midseason premiere to 5.72 million viewers, a series low, according to TV Line. By that point, the writing was already on the wall.

New showrunners were brought in
Another obvious sign that Castle's time was running out: the series hired new showrunners Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter to take the reins in Season 8. Hiring new people to run a show that late in the game is never a great sign in, and it's even worse when they make risky changes to the storyline only to backtrack a few episodes later.

Such was the case with Castle and Beckett's separation. Amid outrage from fans, Hawley and Winter were forced to go on the defense, assuring everyone that nobody was actually getting divorced, but when Castle and Beckett got back together—by taking their relationship on the DL—even that felt forced, unnecessary, and creatively lame. It seemed like Castle's new showrunners were running with scissors.

The show could not survive the negative press
Between Katic's exit, rumors of bad blood on set, and ratings in the toilet, Castle limped to the season finish line with the kind of bad press that no show could shake. Even if Castle had returned for a ninth season—which was going to be much shorter, anyway, according to rumors—the show would have spent the entire time dealing with the fallout of getting rid of popular main characters. It also would have spent a good chunk of time contending with bad press, which no doubt would have ballooned the moment the show took another dip in ratings. In other words, by pulling the plug on Castle now, ABC saved itself from fighting a battle it was never going to win. Sad as it may sound, it was safer to go out on a low note rather than the absolute bottom of the barrel.

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Why Castle Ended With Season 8

While Castle was initially slated to continue for a ninth season, ABC cancelled the series. Here's why the fan-favorite series saw its plug pulled.