Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch took to social media tonight to announce that the Disney XD series with wrap after two more episodes. “There’s no easy way to say it so I’m just going to say it: Gravity Falls is coming to an end,” he said in a Tumblr post. “There are two more episodes left: “Weirdmageddon II: Escape from Reality” and “Weirdmageddon III” which will be our hour long series finale. After that, Gravity Falls as we know it will be over.”
The animated series, which launched on Disney Channel in June 2012 and moved to Disney XD in August 2014, chronicled twins Dipper and Mabel, who live with Great Uncle Stan in the off-kilter town of Gravity Falls, OR.
Hirsch pointed out that he was ending Gravity Falls, rather than it being canceled. It wasn’t a matter of ratings: The show’s midseason premiere in July drew Disney XD’s biggest audience ever for a regular series broadcast in Live+3.
“This is 100% my choice, and its something I decided on a very long time ago,” he wrote. “I always designed Gravity Falls to be a finite series about one epic summer- a series with a beginning, middle, and end. There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark, or mysteries that are cancelled before they ever get a chance to payoff.”
CBS has given a Back 5 order to medical drama Code Black, bringing its freshman order to 18 episodes. It joins fellow new fall CBS series Limitless and Life In Pieces, both of which have received full-season orders for 22 episodes. No back-order decision yet on the latest CBS series to debut this season, Supergirl.
After a modest debut, 1.5 in Live+Same Day 18-49, Code Black has been getting little attention. Its DVR lifts also have been modest, with the premiere inching up a tenth to a 1.6 in Live+3. But, flying under the radar, Code Black has been improving little by little, something very few shows have accomplished, with its Live+3 results for the first three weeks trending up: 1.6, 1.7, 1.8. That’s still a soft performance, but the upward trajectory was somewhat encouraging. In L+SD, Code Black has been steady in the Wednesday 10 PM slot, most recently logging a 1.2 in 18-49 for the past couple of airings, just .3 off the series premiere.
Based on the award-winning documentary by Ryan McGarry, Code Black takes place in the busiest, most notorious ER in the nation. Marcia Gay Harden, Bonnie Somerville, Melanie Kannokada, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Harry M. Ford, Luis Guzman, Raza Jaffrey and William Allen Young star. Michael Seitzman created the show and executive produces with Marti Noxon, Linda Goldstein-Knowlton, Ryan McGarry and David Semel for ABC Studios in association with CBS Television Studios.
A little more than halfway through the second run of FX’s limited series Fargo, the cable net has ordered a third season. Season 1 of the drama from creator Noah Hawley based on the Coen brothers’ 1996 movie won three Emmy Awards including Outstanding Miniseries, and the current sophomore season has been widely praised by critics. No cast or premiere date for Season 3 was announced, but executive producers Hawley, Warren Littlefield, Joel & Ethan Coen, and John Cameron will return.
Neither has gotten a full-season order, but The CW has picked up five additional episodes of freshman comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, bringing the total to 18 episodes for its first season. The network also has ordered six additional episodes of Rob Thomas’ zom-dram-rom-com iZombie, for a total of 19 episodes in its second season.
The Fosters will be back.
ABC Family has renewed the family drama for a fourth season, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The renewal comes a month ahead of the network's name change to Freeform.
The series stars Teri Polo and Sherri Saum as a lesbian couple raising a blended family of biological and adopted children of various ethnicities and backgrounds.
In addition to being a steady ratings performer for the network, the series has also received acclaim for its portrayal of LGBT themes, winning the GLAAD Media Award for outstanding drama series, as well as the TCA Award for achievement in youth programming. Jennifer Lopez also received the GLAAD Vanguard Award for her work as an executive producer on the series.
She is joined by exec producers Bradley Bredeweg, Joanna Johnson, Peter Paige, Greg Gugliotta, Elaine Goldsmith Thomas, and Benny Medina. The series is produced by Nuyorican Productions, Inc. in association with ABC Family.
“We have so many more stories to tell about The Fosters family – these incredible characters have come into our lives and touched so many – from Stef and Lena’s wedding to the adoptions of Callie and Jude.” said ABC Family exec vp programming and development Karey Burke. “We look forward to more of the groundbreaking storytelling from this creative team.”
The Fosters joins returning ABC Family original dramas Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth and Stitchers. The second half of The Fosters' third season premieres in January.
Awesome! That's a cool show with a really good cast. Glad to see it's being recognized and respected.
Excellent news. One of the best shows on TV.
Agreed!
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