It was not the best holiday news when Kyra Sedgwick announced last December that she was quitting her hit show The Closer, but now it seems fans may get a reprieve. The cable channel TNT is looking at ways to extend the final season with additional episodes and possibly continuing without her or launching a spin-off show altogether.
The plan is to super-size the usual 15 episode season to 21, by ordering 6 extra episodes. A deal will have to be made with star Sedgwick whose contract is ending which is the reason for her departing the show. There is also the possibility of the network launching a 9-episode new series in the same mold as the show featuring characters from ‘The Closer’ in a new premise.
This was all part of a plan some years ago to create a spin-off show called ‘The Fixer’, about a professional fixer and his daughter featuring two characters from the show, Det. Provenza (G.W. Bailey) and Lt. Flynn (Tony Denison).
TNT has good reason to hold on to the show as it remains one of the most watched cable shows of all time that was also responsible for helping launch Rizzoli & Isles. The thought is that the network was pre-emptive in announcing the end of the show altogether and if they get their way with the additional 6 episodes and the successor series, it not may not be the end at all.
Kyra Sedgwick won her first Emmy for her role as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson last August and since made clear that she wanted to move on when her contract was up. ‘The Closer’ is a well made series and it will be a shame to lose her, however with other shows switching leads and stars moving on, perhaps this case in not yet closed.
via: Deadline
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