The Dresden Files: Sci Fi Series Cancelled After One Season
After months of uncertainty, the fantasy/mystery series has been cancelled and won’t be returning for a second season.
The Dresden Files was based on a series of novels by Jim Butcher and followed the adventures of Harry Dresden, a wizard who helped the police solve cases. The show debuted on the Sci Fi Channel on January 21, 2007 and ran for 12 episodes. Though the series’ ratings weren’t very strong, a loyal fanbase had hoped that Dresden Files would be renewed for a sophomore year. That didn’t happen and Sci Fi has now confirmed that the series is done.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this news comes on the same day that its been announced that Dresden Files star Paul Blackthorne has joined the cast of new ABC drama Big Shots. Blackthorne will play a high-powered CEO that draws the envy of characters played by Joshua Malina, Dylan McDermott, Christopher Titus, and Michael Vartan. Big Shots will begin airing this Fall on Thursday nights, following Grey’s Anatomy on ABC. Stay tuned! 
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86. Lars said,
Fatbrad - you are an idiot - Firefly was on USA for a short period 4 years before it hit SciFi, just like Enterprise. Firefly was rerun to boost the movie
85. sydney girl said,
I loved Dresdan FIles, sci-fi shows just never get a chance!!!!!
84. thebeholder said,
Good riddance , This should was a dull and poorly written waste of your lives 1 hour at a time. The characters where shallow and contrived at the very best and the plot being not 100% like everything else on tv still seemed stale and recycled, the whole super natural cop show became a tired theme after the first show to use that idea was canceled many many years ago .
83. Fatbrad said,
SciFi sucks. They did the same thing to Firefly and they’ve gone and royally messed this up too. I don’t know how many viewers watch those awful recycled movies with their recycled monsters and recycled story lines and recycled lines, but I’ll guarantee that reruns of Dresden would beat them. Flash and Dr. Who are awful. And now wrestling? I can say that I haven’t watched SciFi since the first 2 Flashes which look and sound like they’re filmed by a high school AV class. I refuse to buy the DVD for fear SciFi reap any of the profits.
82. mike said,
Give me a network executive job. I’ll keep the intelligent shows and cut the dumb ones. Dresden Files was one to keep.
81. An Innocent Bystander said,
My friend gave me the books and told me about the TV show. I loved the books but I was a little skeptical because I heard it was much different from the books.
And then I watched it.
I must say, I fell in love, died, and went to heaven to live with Bob!
And now it’s cancelled. I just show up late for everything, seriously. Oh well…perhaps a petition might get them moving. I’m going to go look for it.