Shawn Ryan: I found out on that Friday that a pilot I had worked on, SWAT, had been picked up. Tell the fans to hang in there and we’re on it.” And literally 99 out of 100 times that goes nowhere, right? We are going to try to figure out how to get this show back from the dead. I’m just starting to pour a cup of coffee and she puts a pregnancy test in my face and tells me that I’m going to be a dad.Įric Kripke: As all this is going on - as is I think is frankly par for the course these days - Sony said, “Sit tight. Matt Lanter: Two days after, on a Friday, my wife walks downstairs about 8 a.m. I thought, I’m unemployed, so I guess I’m coming to do your play. Then there was a turn - my friend Josh Radnor had written his first play and he called me and asked me to be in it. I’d gone through a breakup, I found out the show got canceled. I happened to be working on another show at the time, Preacher, so I was kinda like, “All right, I guess this other thing is meant to be.”Ībigail Spencer (Lucy): It was a terrible week. You hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Malcolm Barrett: I’ve been in this game awhile, so I take everything with a grain of salt. Hopefully, we’ll meet again on this Hollywood journey one day.” It feels unfair now, but this is the TV world we live in. Shawn Ryan: I spent a lot of the rest of the day, Wednesday, and a good part of Thursday calling the actors and other people involved in the show and saying, “We’re so sorry. Everyone makes plans to get together and have a drink. And then what made it interesting and challenging, like in any grieving process, you start to move on. I’ve had that reaction and usually that reaction involves scotch. When we got canceled, there was tons of folks on Twitter, and fan art, and hashtags, and all this is stuff that I’ve never experienced in my entire career.Įric Kripke (series co-creator): My reaction was, “Oh, shit.” I’ve been through it before, but it never gets easier. Malcolm Barrett (Rufus): I saw there was a heavy fan base, which I had never really seen until this moment. A majority of them weren’t showing up Monday night at 10 p.m. So we had a lot of really passionate viewers. Shawn Ryan: When you extended delayed viewing out to a month after the premiere, we ended up being like the fourth-highest-ranked scripted show on NBC. Matt Lanter (Wyatt): Within the last couple of episodes, it seemed that people were really, really paying attention to it. I was actually surprised by the cancellation. and I went in March of last year and pitched to NBC, (a) why we thought the show deserved to be picked up, and (b) what our vision of season two would be. As our delayed viewing numbers were coming in, I felt encouraged. Shawn Ryan (series co-creator): I had been optimistic. Before the series returns on March 11, Vulture spoke with creators, cast, and TV executives about this once-in-a-lifetime Timeless experience. Meanwhile, the Timeless cast and crew went from mourning its end to celebrating a new beginning. With Timeless, NBC did, thanks to fans who had built a devoted community around the show (but didn’t necessarily watch it live on its first airing) and because of negotiations between NBC and Sony, which produces it. Occasionally, another network or a streaming service might revive a show - as in the case of Community, Cougar Town, or The Killing - but networks never reverse course on their own decisions, much less in public, much less within the course of a few days. When a network cancels a show, it usually dies then and there. “That is the right decision,” Ryan thought, “but how on earth did you come to it three days after you made the wrong decision?” Three days earlier, NBC had canceled his time-travel drama, but in an unprecedented move, the network switched course: Timeless would live to fight for ten more episodes. “What the hell is going on? Are we being Punk’d?” he remembers thinking. When Timeless co-creator Shawn Ryan heard the news on a Saturday morning last May, he couldn’t believe it.
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