Though it has already been taken round the back of the cow shed and shot the last four unaired episodes of Marry Me are being shown by the international broadcasters who picked up the series.
Having seen the first two of the 'lost four' I can confirm that the quality has..., dipped even further from the poor benchmark it had before. As much as I like Casey Wilson and Ken Marino they seem poorly matched for this project as a couple. Also, the production values looked poor before but now, assuming they knew they were as good as cancelled, the show looks so much 'smaller'.
Marry Me doesn't really feel like a 'hang out' show or a 'dating' show. Was this future wedding concept really going to propel the show's narrative going forward for the next (if it lasted that long) five years? It already feels like, after just 16 episodes, it has run out of juice with this idea.
Even though Marry Me did enough (the bare minimum really) to satisfy my Penny from Happy Endings withdrawal I do think she has a huge hit in her if she can just find the right vehicle.
The Following: Hmm. Probably cancel, but this is a huge property for WB (esp. internationally), so my guess is they do WHATEVER they can.
Yup, I think that this could be the first time in a long that WBtv 'do a Sony' and work to get The Following back for another season by any means necessary.
If they don't end up giving it to Fox for a heavily subsidised licence fee then I could see it on Hulu (seeing as Netlfix already has Longmire) or whatever.
NBC:
The Mysteries of Laura: Cancel
I have a feeling (based on absolutely nothing, I haven't seen
anything of this series) that 'Laura' will come back for another season on NBC.
While its ratings have been fairly pitiful it is a self starter and Debra Messing is probably NBC royalty at this point so they might want to give it the 'ol college try' and bring it back.
Unless of course NBC just swap one Berlanti show for another and stick Blindspot on the schedule replacing this.