ABC‘s soapy drama Revenge has not been officially renewed for a third season. But when it is, it will be without creator Mike Kelley at the helm. After serving as executive producer/showrunner for the first two seasons of the drama series, Kelley is stepping down from day-to-day responsibilities though he may stay on as a consultant. Kelley called the departure, which comes at the end of his current contract, “a difficult mutual decision” between him and Revenge producer ABC Studios.
Source: Deadline
Source: Deadline
Wow, after just 2 seasons?? Sounds like some high end politics were involved
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ReplyDeleteA little too late. The show had a (very) good first part of season 1 and after that the quality quickly began to drop. I left it at the beginning of season 2, because I couldn't take it anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe site speculates that it's because Kelley wanted Revenge to be a 13-episode per season show as it was difficult to pad out the plot for a full 22 episodes, but ABC wanted it to remain a 22-episode per season show.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if this is good or bad. Rumour has it that he was against revenge being run for 22 episode seasons. Either way, I love the show a lot, it is one of my absolute favorites, so i hope it manages to be okay and that ratings pick up!
ReplyDeleteGot to agree. This show went downhill before S2. Second half of season 1 is just a big blur. I was seriously asleep at the wheel after Tyler was the body on the beach.
ReplyDeleteThere's good and bad parts to that argument. On the 1 hand, all this water-treading is one of the reasons i dislike s2 so much. A 13 ep should would really solve that problem. On the other, even if s2 had only been 13 eps, I still don't see how that would make the plot any stronger. It's been lacklustre ever since they killed Gordon Murphy and that was ages ago.
ReplyDeleteABC's greed showing through again. Kelley was a very vocal advocate of 13 episode seasons as @V_s mentioned, ABC won out in the end and got their 22 episodes season which costs the plot it's cohesion.
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