HBO didn't Renew "Deadwood" for a 4th Season!

[darko.]

f*ck HBO, those c*cksuckin' heathens

[RebelMan]

"Deadwood" May Go Three and Out
Friday, May 12, 2006
10:12 AM PT

The end may be coming to "Deadwood" a little sooner than series creator David Milch originally intended.

HBO, which airs the Emmy-winning series, has let a deadline to extend cast members' contracts to a fourth season go by, the showbiz trade papers report. That means the actors aren't bound to the show and are free to look for other work.

Season three of the series is scheduled to premiere Sunday, June 11, a week after "The Sopranos" ends its 2006 run. The show resumes with a semblance of law coming to Deadwood as the town readies for its first elections.

Milch has said he had planned for the series to run four seasons, with each season representing a year in the life of the mining camp. The real camp burned in 1879, four years after it sprang up following the discovery of gold in the nearby hills.

"With 'Deadwood,' my intention is to end at the end of the fourth season," Milch told the Boston Globe last month. "I can't speak for anyone else, but that's where I'm getting off the bus."

There's still some chance that "Deadwood" could continue beyond a third season, but with the options on the actors' contracts having expired, there would be no guarantee that the large cast would remain intact.

Milch is also working on another project with HBO, a drama called "John from Cincinnati" that's described as "surf noir." The network has ordered a pilot, which Milch is co-writing with author Kem Nunn.