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.
Please Bring Back the Gates…
Bring back The Gates!
all I can say is…Dang !! :-(….. not happy !!
Untill this show comes back on air, I will be forced to complain to the network and no longer watch the shows they provide due to the lack of Vampire blood flow (a.k.a, The gates).
I HOPE THE GATES WILL BE BACK ON ? IT WAS AN EXCELLENT SERIES !!! THE CAST WAS GREAT!!! FROM SMALL STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
I was really looking forward to watching it. I would put off True Blood until a later time just to watch it. I got other ppl watching it. That really bites that it isn’t going to have a 2nd season. I know there will be a lot of disappointed viewers.
I watched this entire series in one day yesterday!!!!!! Also on Netflix. I am so invested in these characters now. I want to know what happens to them! Can’t a season 2 be developed, and maybe sold to Scy Fy? They have all sorts of shows on. The Gates would be perfect, and far better than most of their other programming. (No offense to Scy Fy….but The Gates is far better a program than Eureka!!!!!) I NEED a Season Two. Like, need it. Come on, writers…..Help me out, here.
I started watching this on netflix and was disappointed that a second season wasn’t in the making.
My boyfriend and I just started watching this show on Netflix. And we literally could not stop watching it! We finished the whole first season in two days! We then started googling to see if there was going to be a second season and were completely bummed to find out that it was canceled! I wish I had known about the show while it was actually airing, I had never even heard of it till i saw it on Netflix. Maybe that was the problem, it just needed more publicity 🙁 Never the less, it was a great show!!
Man I just found out that it’s not coming back soooo sad.
I really liked it! Wish they would reconsider.
Man, this was really a great show. Just got to see it an found out mid way that there would not be a second season. I really wish someone would pick this show up. I’m totally invested in it. Sad Face!
Enjoyed the show.
This sucks, I LOVED THE GATES….It was so interesting, great story line and the actors that played the characters were “spot on”. I love Roma. I hope to see you all in future movies. I would think it might be a good idea to make a movie of the GATES. I think TV series you have to capture people watch weekly. Just think of the movie you could make with these actors and this story line. I’d go see it!! With the big vampire/werewolf craz right now, I think it’s be an awesome idea.
I loved this series and have been looking and looking for the season 2 premier! I am very disappointed that it was cancelled. It seems that every time I truly like a show they end up cancelling it and leave stupid CSI and medical shows on TV for years! Ungh! Who wants to watch “real life” on TV after 8-10 hours of work every day! I watch TV to escape from real life!
I think it sucks (no pun intended) that they cancelled this series.. It was a little slow to get started but I truly enjoyed watching this show every week, and was so looking forward to it coming back.
I agree with you Wanda. I am very dissapointed that they cancelled the show. I looked forward to see what they were going to do with the new season now that the sheriff’s whole family now knew what everyone in the community was.