Scripted network television is no stranger to abrupt cancellation. When a show gets the ax unexpectedly, it may result in two flavors of bad series finale: the pointless cliffhanger and the tacked-on post-production resolution (in which it’s painfully obvious the showrunners couldn’t get the main actors to film new scenes, so the ending consists of awkward expository narration and the occasional Fake Shemp). The last episode of Castle somehow managed to do both at once.
But what happens when a major network lacks the authority to cancel or renew an independently financed series? In the case of Siberia, it means existing in developmental limbo for 11 years and counting.
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