Twice within its final minutes, the film returns to close-ups on two pairs of hands entwined in compassion — one male and female, the other black and white. Skip to main content. Close close Donate.
Close Close. The series got the official ax in August of , and the reasons for its abrupt end are as frustrating as one can possibly imagine. Unlike most shows that suffer from poor ratings or drama from the set, the problems Deadwood faced came from higher up. The show was notoriously expensive , with set design alone taking up a big chunk of change.
Showrunner David Milch was also a perfectionist, needing everything to look as authentic as possible. In order to make the show work, WarnerMedia, a subdivision of HBO, had to partner up with Paramount Television to properly produce the series, but the two networks could never get along.
The series is set in the s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory, and charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town. The show was created, produced, and largely written by David Milch. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
Set in , when the richest gold strike in U. While many networks are part of entertainment conglomerates that also include in-house production companies NBC Universal includes both NBC and Universal Studios, for example , the studios that make TV shows can shop a series around to different networks, which then pay a hefty licensing fee for the right to air the show.
Studios may also team up to make shows, particularly expensive ones like Deadwood. HBO is a division of Warner Media, and the network co-produced the show with Paramount, which held the international rights to the series.
That necessitated a lot of talks and contracts between Warner and Paramount over splitting the profits from Deadwood. Those companies reached an impasse about their arrangement before a fourth season of Deadwood could go into production, and so both parties walked away from the table, in effect canceling the show.
Deadwood wasn't just canceled by default because the people who write the checks had a fight about money. It also earned a de facto cancellation because of some passive-aggressive behavior by HBO. Deadwood 's end was announced in , just prior to the debut of the show's third and final season.
According to TV Series Finale , it wasn't "officially" canceled at all — the cast's "options" simply weren't picked up. An option is a clause in an actor's contract that gives a show's production company the chance or "option" to sign the performer on for more episodes at the end of the contract's term. In the case of Deadwood, actors' contracts were valid for three seasons, with an option for a fourth. This binds an actor to a show, preventing them from going off to make other TV shows or movies and saving writers from the task of explaining character absences.
But the fourth-season option for Deadwood 's stars wasn't exercised. That means the actors were essentially released from their obligation to Deadwood, meaning they were available to go do other things.
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