`Gilmore Girls' to wrap after 7 years
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
Thu May 3, 4:29 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Goodbye "Gilmore Girls." The sharp-witted saga of an independent mother and daughter that added to the luster of the young WB network, will end its run after seven seasons.The show, which last year moved to the CW network created by the merger of WB and UPN, will air its final episode May 15 at 8 p.m. EDT, CW and producer Warner Bros. Television announced Thursday.
"Gilmore Girls," starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel and created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, "helped define a network and created a fantastic storybook world featuring some of television's most memorable, lovable characters," CW and the studio said in a joint statement.
They thanked fans for their "passionate support" promised to give the show "the send-off it deserves."
Ratings had dipped this season for the series, which lost Sherman-Palladino as its guiding hand because of a contract dispute.
The drama with comic overtones followed the lives of single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Graham) and her equally bright and beautiful daughter as they grew up together, struggled through romances and tried to find their place in the world.
Rapid-fire patter, the series' hallmark, delighted fans but took a toll on its cast.
"Getting the language perfect requires a number of takes that you might not have on another show," Graham told The Associated Press in January 2006.
"It's just a lot of work — 13, 14 hours door to door. I've missed weddings, I've missed babies being born. I'm not complaining, because of what it has brought me, but I would be ready for a different balance."
Sherman-Palladino and her husband and fellow executive producer, Daniel Palladino, left after failing to come to terms with the studio on a new deal, and the series struggled creatively and in the ratings this season.
The April 24 episode drew fewer than 4 million viewers, down about 25 percent compared to the same time last year.
As production on the show got under way last fall, its future then uncertain, Graham speculated about the final chapter.
"I care very much how the story ends," Graham said told the AP. "... It would be my worst nightmare if we end the show with a wedding. To me, the premise of the show was, `What if your parent was your best friend?'"
"That's the thing you leave people with, the strength of this family and this relationship," she said.
It's going to be sad to say goodbye to this show. I've come to love the Gilmores and all their crazy antics. Let's hope it goes out in style on May 15th.
2 comments:
I have mixed feelings about this. While I haven't been following Gilmore Girls in a while (in fact, the show's sort of become annoying to me, and I tend to change the channel when it's on, unless it's reruns from seasons 1-4), there's something kind of awful in knowing it's not gonna be around anymore. I guess characters grow on you in spite of yourself, and the universes created by the writers live somewhere in your mind, and once they're gone, it DOES live a void.
Anyway, it was a good show while it lasted, a great show even, during its first seasons, very original, and it's better to quit while you're ahead.
_ DF
Thank goodness for ABC Family reruns! Having my Gilmore Girls on twice a day Mon. through Fri. makes this a little less painful. Still, this is rather painful for me. The have totally become a part of my existence.
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