Richard Castle will be back next season. Nathan Fillion recently signed a new contract and now ABC has renewed the Castle TV show for an eighth season. (It’s currently unclear if Fillion’s co-star Stana Katic will renew her contract as well.)
On Castle, the relationship of author Richard Castle (Fillion) and Detective Kate Beckett (Katic) is anything but smooth. The rest of the cast includes Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Tamala Jones, Molly Quinn, Penny Johnson Jerald, and Susan Sullivan.
The seventh season of Castle has been down by about 15% season-to-season (currently averaging a 1.58 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 8.47 million viewers) but it’s still the network’s fourth most-watched scripted series.
What do you think? Are you glad that the Castle TV show has been renewed? Should this be the final year? Would you watch without Katic?
I am so excited that they are going to keep Castle love this show. I am hopeful that Stana Katic will come back for another season there are so many places they can go. So many stories left to write. Wish I was a writer
With or without Beckett, Stana Katic is still the heart and soul of CASTLE.
I am so happy and excited that Castle is renewed!! I’m not sure if i would still watch without Beckett I mean Beckett makes up like 50% of the show.
Please don’t cancel this fun and clean show. It is so disgusting so see what the networks have to offer. My TV watching has really dwindled. As far as watching if Katic is on…..I would have to watch it and see how it is.
I’m glad it’s renewed. I would watch without Katic.. although it would be weird. Maybe Ryan and Espo can have more airtime.. More Lanie too ..
As much as I like Nathan Fillion, I would stop watching the show if Stana Katic left. Her character is 50% of the show.
I look forward to seeing Castle I think it is a great series, keep it going and I hope Kate doesn’t leave the program, Coffy
I absolutely love this show. I have never been disappointed. EVERY cast member brings it. Just a thought – your audience would increase greatly if you moved it to 9pm instead of 10pm.
Yes your right Julie I would miss Becket but the time change would help.
I have been a fan since the beginning but without Beckett, it doesn’t work. It has many more years of stories if the writing is there. Look at Murder, She Wrote. That went on for twelve years as a series and then additional years as tv movies. Look at Bones, it is still going strong. They need to bring Marlowe back as show runner and Katic back as Beckett and the show can go on for years and years, and Season 7 will be just a little hiccup.
I really don’t think the show will work without Katic. The whole show is about the dynamic between Castle and Beckett. Without her, where is the show going to go? I’m a huge fan of Stana and don’t plan to watch if she’s not back for season 8.
Totally agree!
I love this show and with good writers it could be a go with out Becket .
I will continue to watch it. It is one of my favorites. The characters and their relationships are interesting, exciting, and healthy. I love crime dramas, solving puzzles is exercise for the mind. Great show, great writers, great stars.
I wonder how it will go on w/o Katic ?!
I like it the few times I saw it but honestly figured it had already been cancelled and was in rerun mode.
I’m happy to hear that CBS has not canceled Castle but I’m still going to stop watching it. Sooner or later the network will leave us once again with a cliffhanger only to cancel it leaving all the faithful watchers hanging one again. Might as well stop now instead of being sucked in once again.
ABC, actually. Not CBS.
It is one of the few shows that I consider worthwhile watching. But without Katic I just would not know because the chemistry between her and everyone else just seems so natural. I have enjoyed the show since its beginnings and even enjoy seeing the show in a foreign language overseas. It might be time to start to begin to put the series to its conclusion.