As expected, ABC has cancelled The Gates after one season on the air. The ratings certainly didn’t dictate a second season and a couple weeks ago, series star Frank Grillo said that he’d heard unofficially that the show wouldn’t be back.
Though even actress Lindsay Lohan wanted to see it return, it’s now been confirmed that The Gates has indeed been cancelled. Some of the people connected with the show have tweeted about the series’ passing.
From the show’s Twitter feed comes, “We would like to thank our followers for sticking with us through this great journey.”
Gates creator Richard Hatem wrote simply, “Thanks to everyone who loved it. DVD set to be released…someday?”
Consulting producer and writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe tweeted, “Thank you to #TheGates fans, crew & cast for a great run. It was a blast. Seriously some of the best fans ever.” He later posted, “4 sale, lux devlpmnt/incrprtd town w/ upscale owners, prvt police/fire, exclnt school, occasional mysterious death”
Colton L Haynes wrote, “Was a great/fun experience and thk u all for coming along for the ride!. He followed that up with, “THE GATES cast and crew: thk u all for the good times! Learned alot and had a great summer with u all! Cheers to the future!” and posted this photo with #ripBrettCreski. Wolfe responded, “Sob… Too young!”
James Preston looks forward to the future, tweeting, “No worries gates fans follow us on to our new exciting roles!” Travis Caldwell echoed that sentiment, saying, “its all good more to come from all of us !!!”
Justin Miles wrote, “We gave em a hell of a run, though…” Janina Gavankar feels similarly, saying, “Sad. But we’re incredibly proud of what we made.”
Young McKaley Miller tweeted, “thank you guys for all the support!! seriously, y’all are awesome!! #TheGates is officially over, but it was such a great experience!! TY :)”
Andrea Powell wrote, “Thanks for all the love, fans of #TheGates. We’ll miss you! :-*”
Rachel Dipillo wrote, “We had a fun ride on The Gates. Love everyone I worked with and can’t wait to see what you do next! #RIPLEXIEWADE”
Grillo tweeted, “Thanks to all of you for supporting us. It made the whole thing worth it. Lots more fun stuff coming.” Grillo also said that he’d share what would have happened in the second season. After son Charlie is saved, Nick and his family would have stayed in the Gates community. The Radcliffs decide to take a break from one another. Leigh becomes the head of the police and Nick takes over the Gates board and oversees the community.
What do you think? Are you sorry that The Gates won’t be back for season two? What would you have liked to see happen?
Image courtesy ABC.
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WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP I SAY WE BOYCOT ABC , THEY SEEM TO TAKE THE GOOD SHOWS OFF AIR IDIOTS
In my opinion, they need to come up with a better rating system! neilson sucks they give it to people that don’t hardly watch t.v. it makes it hard for those of us that do to get to see the shows we like!
Well I was thinking that I would be getting ready for a new season and was all excited about it. Now to read that it was cancelled! Im seriously pissed because it was a great series with some fantastic possiblities now I will never know!!!! ABC sucks right about now. I too hope that syfy or some other cable network picks it up and finishes it.
Maybe the SciFy channel should pick it up!!!
Wow, really shocked to hear this. Looked forward to it this summer. Really is a shame. It has lots of the elements of sci fi fiction that many women like to read about (Sookie type books) yet has the action that guys like (werewolves, fighting, etc) so it was awesome to have a show both my husband and I agreed on. So sorry it’s not continuing…but that seems to happen occasionally with the shows I like…so can’t keep them all I guess, but I for sure thought this one was a keeper!
THE HELL WITH YOU ABC. THE GATES PLEASE FIND ANOTHER NETWORK.
CANCELLED! ARE YOU CRAZY. ABC NEED TO CANCEL ALL THAT OTHER B.S. BRING THE GATES BACK.
I really used to look forward to sunday nights and the gates. I can’t believe that people would rather watch a bunch of celebrities prance around than an actual interesting story. We need more shows. Reality sucks and everyone knows it. So why would we want to watch a show based on reality? Start getting rid of these so-called reality shows and give us something to escape to. We all need a little fantasy!
I loved that show! So sad 🙁 Why would ABC get rid of a good show?
Oh come on!! Quit getting rid of the good shows and keep all the dumb ones…This was a bad move!!!
estoy triste a mi me gustaba mucho the gates que regresen la sengunda temporada la estamos esperando por favor
So sad, it was a great series. I was looking forward to the second series.
Figures they always get rid of the good shows maybe another network like syfy or fx will pick it up hopefully
So sad to hear this!! It was a great show!!