Friday, November 17, 2006

Veronica's Sort-Of Full Season!

Well, this is - sort-of - good news! The CW Network had been mum on what it was doing with Veronica Mars; it only had a partial season commitment and all of us fans were worried it'd get canned any day now. It's not exactly getting monster numbers, but it's also not doing terribly either.

But, thankfully, the good word comes today that it's gotten - almost - a full-season order. From What's Alan Watching (via AICN):

"Just heard from Rob Thomas, and the CW has given "Veronica Mars" a back seven instead of the traditional back nine. This is obviously brand-new information for them, so it'll take a while to figure out how this will affect the later two arcs. (My guess: since they're already at work on arc #2, the last one will take the biggest hit.)

This is good news, certainly for this season, and I don't know that the slightly reduced order is a big danger sign for the possibility of a fourth season. The CW hasn't been as successful out of the gate as expected, and they may be looking to pinch pennies until they get through to next year. Or maybe I'm just being naively optimistic. Wouldn't be the first time.

UPDATE: Rob says he's still trying to figure things out, but as of now, the plan is to do a four-episode arc for the end of the season."

This season has gotten better and better as it's gone along; they no longer seem to be trying to court new viewers so hard, and have gotten back to all the stuff that makes VM so excellent; I'd have been devastated for it to not have gotten to finish its season now.
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