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After exceptional ratings again last night for the conclusion to the two part “Castle Event” ABC has finally announced that they have renewed the series for a third season.

Castle blew the ratings away again last night.  Initial results give Castle a 3.7/10 in the 18-49 demographic and a total of 14.47 million viewers achiving a series high for the second consecutive week and beating episodes of CSI: Miami and Law & Order. This week’s increase was achieved despite a drop for lead-in Dancing with the Stars.

According to ABC, Castle delivered ABC’s biggest audience in time period with a regular scripted series since 1996 and its top Adult 18-49 number since 2001.

ABC has ordered a full season of 22 episodes.

The song ‘Love Song” by Golden State featured in the episode “A Rose for Everafter” has been one of the most talked about songs used in Castle to date.  Golden State gave castletv.net a little background of the song and we used the song in a Castle music video posted to YouTube.

There’s good news for fans who have been waiting for the song to be released! It’s coming soon…and….

Golden State have responded to fan reaction to the song and are offering a free copy of “Love Song” to anyone from this site who attends their show at the Hotel Cafe  in Los Angeles on March 27th.

So if you’re in the Los Angeles area be sure to go along and support the band.

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Earlier this week we announced that ABC had decided that Castle could stand on its own and gave up the Sunday night timeslot following Desperate Housewives and moved the first part of the two part “Castle Event” starring Dana Delany back to Castle’s usual timeslot of Monday nights.

Today we were advised that ABC has now decided that it will air Castle on Sunday night following Desperate Housewives but instead of being the premiere of the first episode of the two parter they will air an encore of this episode on Sunday 28th giving viewers who miss the first airing a chance to catch up before the second part airs the following night and hopefully still bring in some new viewers from Desperate Housewives.

An encore of part one of the 2-part Castle will air following a repeat of Desperate. Part 2 of this 2-part episode airs the following night on its normal night and will be all-new. Brothers & Sisters repeat for this night is no longer scheduled. — sitcomsonline.com

Schedule:

• Monday 22nd March – Tick, Tick, Tick.- part 1
• Sunday 28th March – Tick, Tick, Tick. (repeat)
• Monday 29th March – Bang – part 2

Back in January ABC released information on plans to air a two-part episode of Castle over two consecutive nights.  The intention was to air part one on Sunday night following Desperate Housewives.  The two part special stars Dana Delay as FBI Agent so the move was clearly intended to draw in new viewers with part two airing the following night in Castle’s usual timeslot of Mondays at 10.

Today ABC announced a change in the schedule.  Having faith that Castle can stand alone the two part episodes will now both air in Castle’s usual Monday night time slot with part one titled “Tick, Tick, Tick” airing March 22nd and part two, “Boom”, the following week on March 29th.  Both episodes will follow new episodes of Dancing with the Stars.

In addition to new episodes of #Castle on Monday nights ABC has resumed airing repeats from both season 1 and 2 on Saturday nights.  For details on the full Castle schedule visit our Episode Schedule page.

UPDATE: Tickets are now available through the Paley website

The Paley Center will be holding a special Castle event on Tuesday, March 16 at 7PM in Los Angeles. Member tickets are $10 and the general public $15.

Members of the cast and crew will be on stage to talk about Castle and answer questions from the audience.

Cast & Crew Attending:

• Nathan Fillion
• Stana Katic
• Susan Sullivan
• Molly Quinn
• Ruben Santiago Hudson
• Tamala Jones
• Andrew W. Marlowe, Executive Producer/Creator
• Rob Bowman, Executive Producer
• Rene Echevarria, Executive Producer
• Laurie Zaks, Executive Producer

Cast member Jon Huertas said via Twitter today that he and fellow cast member Seamus Dever are scheduled to be filming this evening but if they finish in time they will try to stop by.

Discuss this event on our forums http://castletv.net/forums/events/paley-festival-march-16-2010

Paley Center Website:  http://www.paleycenter.org/2010-spring-an-evening-with-castle

You can buy tickets online (once their system is set up for the new event) or via the details below:

By Phone: Please call Ovationtix at 866.811.4111 Mondays to Fridays, 6:00am to 6:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 6:00am to 3:00pm PT.

In Person: Tickets for all events are available at the Paley Center Front Desk (465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA), Wednesdays to Sundays, 12:00 to 5:00 pm.

Events and participants subject to change. Service charges apply for online and phone salest