![]() "But it just costs more than they want to spend."She had several ideas for spinoffs, which would have continued the story with a much leaner cast. ![]() ran all the numbers for them," said Brenda Hampton, 7th Heaven executive producer. 7th Heaven is produced by Spelling Television, which is owned by Paramount TV, which is owned by CBS Corp., which owns part of the CW.Got that? Since there was now a financial relationship between the studio and network, they explored whether it made financial sense to keep the series alive."We really brainstormed every possible way to continue the show and. A couple of months ago there was a quiet meeting involving the show's producers Dawn Ostroff, programming chief for the CW and Nancy Tellem, who oversees CBS-owned studios. ![]() He's also curious about why the show's sets weren't torn down a month after the finale was filmed.No one's told him anything more definitive, so he's left to assume it really is over.There was substance to some of the rumors. "So it's been kind of weird, hearing all the rumors."His agent received a cryptic phone call from someone involved with the show wondering if Collins would be available if the series were to continue in some form. "We all got pretty comfortable with the idea that the show was going to be over, (back) in November and December," said Stephen Collins, who portrays family patriarch Rev. They will combine forces to make a new network, the CW, which debuts in September.Almost immediately there was talk that 7th Heaven wasn't really dead, or that it might be replaced by a spinoff. ![]() No official reason was given, but it's best to follow the money in these circumstances: successful series become much more expensive as they age, primarily because the pay for everyone shoots up, and 7th Heaven has a large cast.Yet before the finale was filmed, The WB was canceled, too.Corporate owners said they were shutting down The WB and UPN networks at the end of this summer. Hicks also points out that she's retired now and has switched her focus to caring for her real children instead of playing a homemaker on TV.New York | It's been a weird spring for the people on 7th Heaven, which ends like it spent most of its 10-year life - disrespected despite being more popular than anything else The WB network has on the air.Told last fall that the series was ending, they've been teased with the idea that it would live again, only to be disappointed.The Camden family will gather tonight for Simon's wedding in an episode that weaves in scenes from the pilot first aired in August 1996.A few weeks after 7th Heaven officially became the longest-running family drama in TV history, The WB announced in November that this would be its last season. For one, Hicks doesn't feel that it would be the same with all of the children now all grown up and with Collins' 2014 scandal ensuring he wouldn't be a part of it. She said that there was no chance of doing a continuation, and that's due to a few notable reasons. While 7th Heaven was popular at the time of its airing, Hicks was pretty quick to shut down the idea of doing a revival or reboot series in a new talk with TMZ. ![]() The series explores the family drama that comes with a religious family raising seven children ranging in age from babies to adults. Originally airing for eleven seasons between 19, 7th Heaven follows the Camden family, starring Stephen Collins as minister Eric Camden alongside Catherine Hicks as his wife, Annie. We shouldn't expect to see 7th Heaven become the next classic series to get a revival, and really, it's not hard to understand why. ![]()
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