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Seamus Dever & Jon Heartas Sing for Charity

If you’re in Los Angeles, you can go along a see Castle stars Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas sing for charity! They are part of an amazing line-up, and the event will be held at a small venue so you’ll really be a part of the action.

Tickets are $25 at the door (Cash Only). And you MUST make reservations at M Bar in advance to secure a table… just call 323-856-0036.

The Anti Cabaret Cabaret
Doors at 7pm.  Show at 8pm
RSVP  323-856-0036
$10 Food min
www.mbaronline.com

IT'S OFFICIAL!! Castle Renewed for Another Season

After TVLine teased recently that ABC was preparing to announce their series renewals we knew it was only a matter of time before ABC announced that Castle will be renewed for another season and now they have!

It’s official, Castle will have a 5th season. It is assumed the episode order is for a full season of 22 episodes that will begin airing September 2012.

More to come.

Congratulations to the entire cast and crew of Castle, you deserve it!

Say What You Think in a Voice Mail

We’d love to hear what you have to say about the news. We may put your responses in our next podcast! Call us now on (818) 824-6077 (USA) or call CastleTV on skype and leave a voicemail message.


Reason For Concern? aka "The Moonlighting Curse"

#ThereIsNoCurse

Back in the 80s .. before half the people reading this post were even born, there was a wonderful little quirky and awesomely fun show called “Moonlighting”.  And while they show was phenomenally popular, a ratings hit and winner of many awards including Emmys (being nominated in bout Humour AND Drama) and People’s Choice Awards… but along the way, something went wrong and the “Moonlighting Curse” was born.

Somehow however, the REASON for the show’s failure was inappropriately and incorrectly blamed on the “getting together” of the two main characters.  We always planned to write a detailed article on just what really did go wrong with Moonlighting but it’s one of those things that has taken time and while we were carefully researching to make sure we got all our facts straight this ended up quite time consuming and the task kept getting pushed aside.  But to sum up…

  1. The Writers Strike
    Due to the writers strike there were breaks in writing/filming/airing episodes
  2. Not  meeting deadlines
    The show production was often running late meaning they missed deadlines to be able to air on time
  3. Time Slot changes & preemption
    Moonlighting’s regular time slot was Tuesdays but part way through season 5 it was shifted to Sunday nights and ratings dropped dramatically. The show was also preempted numerous times (mostly due to reason 2 above)
  4. Cybil Sheppard’s difficult pregnancy with twins
  5. Bruce Willis being busy filming Die Hard
  6. Bad bad bad writing
    For the better part of a whole season the two main characters who’s simultaneous banter the show relied on were not in a single scene together (see points 4 & 5). And when they finally DID bring the two characters together Maddy had spontaneously married to a random stranger (yes, really!)

Needless to say, NONE of these things was about the two main characters getting together but somehow the “Moonlighting Curse” was born and is still used today as an excuse to avoid getting characters together for fear of “losing sexual tension that keeps viewers coming back”.

Anyone who’s followed Castle Creator Andrew Marlowe’s interviews over the years will know that Andrew is NOT a believer in the “Moonlighting Curse” and he knows first hand that relationships don’t have to get boring the minute they begin (see our Spoiler Zone for links on Marlowe’s most recent interviews and follow @AndrewWMarlowe and his wife and co-writer @TerriEdda on twitter to see just how fun their long-term marriage is).

We don’t believe in “the curse” either and we know that most of you agree that there are still plenty exiting stories to tell with Castle & Beckett now that they’re beginning this new stage of their relationship.

If you w0uld like to express your agreement with this thought, help us right now to get #ThereIsNoCurse trending on twitter. Let’s show all the disbelievers out there that we’re excited about seeing the next stage of the Castle-Beckett relationship. (Please refrain from aggressive comments when you tweet and remember that ABC themselves support Marlowe’s plan).

While you tweet, remember to mention why you’re tweeting the tag so that when people see it trend and search the word on twitter they’ll see our excitement about Castle.

 

 

Deleted Scene from “Always”

Did you know Castle is resurrecting Derrick Storm? There’s a series of three novellas being released, the first one “A Brewing Storm” is available now and can be downloaded to Kindle or via Amazon to view on your computer.  The following “A Raging Storm will be released in July and the third yet to be named in August.

Here’s a deleted scene from “Always” mentioning Derrick Storm.

In addition the 2nd graphic novel “Storm Season” to be based on Castle’s original Derrick Storm series will be available in October.

Pre Order these items now.

Castle Season 5

After a universally enjoyed and highly emotional season finale that beat out the competition in the ratings last night, the “question of the day” is undoubtedly…

“Is there going to be a season 5 of Castle?”

The best answer we can give at this point is we believe there is!

Frustratingly ABC has yet to announce any of their renewals this year which means that officially, there’s no answer about whether or not Castle has been renewed for a 5th season.

The good news is at least as of right now Castle has not been canceled and every indication points towards ABC renewing Castle for another season. The past couple of months we’ve seen Castle consistently in the top 10 most watched shows in the US. There are new books coming out including the next Nikki Heat novel “Frozen Heat“, 3 Derrick Storm Novellas, the new graphic novel “Storm Season” and nobody associated with the show seems to be worried about being out of a job.

We expect that ABC will announce all their show renewals on May 15th at the Upfronts press event.

You can be sure that as soon as there’s any official news we’ll be posting it here and on Twitter, Tumblr & Facebook.

Season 4 on DVD

In other news, it’s reported that the Castle Season 4 DVD set will be released September 11 (a week earlier than usual and the same day as Frozen Heat).

Included on the DVD: all 23 episodes of season 4, “Nathan & Friends: Castle Goes Radio;” “Anatomy of A Stunt;” audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and bloopers.

Pre Order these items now.