The Librarians--Season Four

[RJDiogenes]

Maybe this era of the Library will become known as the Reformation. If there can be more than one Librarian, who says there can't be more than one Guardian, and more than one tethering? They could tether the hell out of it, so that it will never fade away again.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

The Librarians Cancelled by TNT After 4 Seasons, Will Seek New Home

 

[RJDiogenes]

That is sad, but not surprising-- I didn't expect it to get a fourth season. It's nice to see that they are looking for a new home and not just accepting cancellation, though. My fingers are crossed.

 

[Christopher]

Well, if it is the end, it's a fairly decent note to end on, with Flynn and Eve bonded to the Library and ensuring its future. I'm not really sure where they could've gone next from there anyway.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The Librarians Cancelled by TNT After 4 Seasons, Will Seek New Home

They could continue the story in ... books! Librarians, get it, wink wink nudge nudge...

 

[JD]

Greg Cox has already three The Librarians novels, so that's not completely outside the realm poisibility if it doesn't find a new home on TV.
I really hope it does find a new home, it's one of the few light fun genre shows on the air right now, and I'd hate to lose that.

 

[kirk55555]

It feels a bit like a mercy killing at this point. For me it was basically intolerable after season 2 (why couldn't falling skies have stayed on the air and kept Noah Wyle away from the show, he ruined it the second he got a big roll), so I'm not that sad to see it go. For me its been dead for two seasons, but I do miss it. It filled a Warehouse 13 shaped hole in my tv viewing for the first two seasons (Season1 much more then season 2, admittedly). I hope for its fans that it manages to find a new network.

 

[Christopher]

Greg Cox has already three The Librarians novels, so that's not completely outside the realm poisibility if it doesn't find a new home on TV.

It's pretty rare for tie-in books to remain viable after the cancellation of the shows they're based on. Only really big franchises can pull that off -- Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Doctor Who, Buffy, Babylon 5 to a degree (that was pretty big for a while). Other lines that have attempted it generally haven't lasted long.

 

[Greg Cox]

They could continue the story in ... books! Librarians, get it, wink wink nudge nudge...

Thanks for the plug.

And this is where I brag about the fact that a copy of the first book is actually shelved in the Library. They sent me photos of it from the set.

FYI, the latest issue of the comic book went on sale this week.

 

[Greg Cox]

It's pretty rare for tie-in books to remain viable after the cancellation of the shows they're based on. Only really big franchises can pull that off -- Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Doctor Who, Buffy, Babylon 5 to a degree (that was pretty big for a while). Other lines that have attempted it generally haven't lasted long.

Outside of sci-fi, the MURDER SHE WROTE novels went on for ages . . . and the MONK novels survived the show by years.

I'll be curious to see if "Richard Castle" continues to put out bestselling mystery novels . . ..

 

[Christopher]

I'll be curious to see if "Richard Castle" continues to put out bestselling mystery novels . . ..

Oh, now that the show's over, did they ever come out and admit who was really writing those books?

The "Nikki Heat" books I read were interesting, but I never really bought the conceit that they were the actual books Castle was writing in the show. They were basically just Castle episodes with the character names changed and with the two leads becoming lovers several years sooner. I mean, that works in real life, since they were Castle tie-in novels, so it stands to reason that the audience wanted stories that felt like Castle episodes. But in-universe, I don't believe Castle would've been so unimaginative as to base the Nikki Heat characters so exactly on the people from his real life, and it might've been risking libel suits (or at least ruined friendships) if he had. It's more likely that he would've created composite characters.

 

[JD]

The Murder, She Wrote novels are still coming out, there's one due out in May and another due out in November of this year. In case anyone is curious, no I don't read them.
The latest "Richard Castle" book just came out on Tuesday. I haven't read any of these yet, but I do have the first one sitting in my to read pile. Castle actually has two series, the Nikki Heat books, and they also did some Derek Storm short stories and comic books. The new book is actually a crossover with the two leads teaming up.

 

[Greg Cox]

Along the lines of the "Castle" books, I was amused to see that JANE THE VIRGIN has a tie-book out that is not a JANE THE VIRGIN novel but rather a novel written by the main character, who has apparently become an author on the TV series. . ...

And speaking of books, let me shamelessly mention that THE LIBRARIANS AND THE MOTHER GOOSE CHASE comes out in mass-market later this month.

 

[JD]

Real versions of fiction books from TV shows has kind of become it's own subgenre of tie-ins lately.

 

[Christopher]

Real versions of fiction books from TV shows has kind of become it's own subgenre of tie-ins lately.

Well, they've been around for a while, even though they seem to be more common lately. The Murder, She Wrote books that have been coming out for decades are supposedly by Jessica Fletcher rather than about her. The original Twin Peaks had The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and some other in-universe tie-in book. Harry Potter had a couple of Hogwarts textbooks published. In the '90s or sometime, there was a Superman comics plotline of Clark becoming a novelist, and I think they actually published "his" novel. And you could make a case that the 1975 Star Fleet Technical Manual was a version of a type of book that had been mentioned in Star Trek, since Scotty mentioned reading technical journals on occasion.

Plus there are all the classic novels and stories that were themselves presented as in-universe nonfiction written by the characters, like Gulliver's Travels or Dracula or the Sherlock Holmes canon. There was a time when that was the norm rather than the exception.

 

[Greg Cox]

I wonder who is writing the "Jessica Fletcher" novels these days now that Don Bain has passed away . . ..

Speaking of such projects, how long before we get darkly angsty RIVERDALE novels by Jughead Jones?

 

[Christopher]

Speaking of such projects, how long before we get darkly angsty RIVERDALE novels by Jughead Jones?

I was wondering much the same thing.

Or how about Mick Rory's sci-fi romance novel from Legends of Tomorrow?

 

[Caretaker]

From Dean Devlin via the official Librarians Facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/TheLibrarians/posts/2060196243997771

Dear fans of The Librarians. Would you subscribe to a streaming service pay cable channel to get new episodes?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^ We're getting a glimpse into the future, aren't we? That's going to be the question going forward for everything.

 

[Defcon]

I wonder who is writing the "Jessica Fletcher" novels these days now that Don Bain has passed away . . ..

From his Obituary on the NYT website:

The “Murder, She Wrote” series is expected to be continued by Mr. Bain’s most recent collaborator, Jon Land.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/...-widely-read-author-but-not-by-that-name.html

According to Wikipedia he is co-writing them with Bain's grandson Zachary Shippee:

After Bain's death, it was announced that his grandson, Zachary Shippee, along with author Jon Land, would be taking over the series. Land co-authors A Date with Murder, Bain's final Murder, She Wrote novel to be published posthumously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Murder,_She_Wrote_novels

A post by Bain's daughter on Goodreads make it sound as if Shipee is writing them alone:

Thank you so very much for the heartfelt notes, prayers and love following my father Donald Bain's passing. There has been much speculation about who will now write the Murder, She Wrote novels and the answer is Zachary Shippee, mystery solved, so to speak. Thank you xo Laurie Bain Wilson

https://www.goodreads.com/user_status/show/149034763


(Damn, the things you research when you're sick, slept for most of the day and so can't sleep in the night. )