If there ’s one affair the Fox connection is known for beyondThe Simpsons , it ’s having the desire and means to totally ignore the decisiveness of canceling a television receiver serial . The drift begin right smart back in 2004 withFamily Guy — which was dropped in 2002 beforerobust DVD salescaused the meshwork to reconsider — and has proceed with new iterations of24,Prison Break , andThe hug drug - Files .
The broadcast channel is reportedly extend their telecasting necromancy to another show that may have expired before its clip : Firefly , the 2002 Joss Whedon - created serial about a motley bunch of space jockeys . During a chat at the Television Critics Association gathering in January , David Madden , Fox Broadcasting ’s chairwoman of entertainment , indicate he ’d beopento a unexampled season if Whedon was involve .
Whedon had previously taken a noncommittal attitude aboutFirefly , say he ’d do it only if he was motivated and if the core cast was available for filming . For virtually a decade , that was off the table because of actor Nathan Fillion ’s role as the lead on ABC’sCastle , whichendedlast May . In a Long Beach Comic Con panel with the cast in September 2016 , Fillion wasambivalentabout the possibility .
" I completely get wanting more , " he enjoin . " I hear it all the time … At the same time , we all had what I would call my ambition job . It was the sodding position . Everything was neat . Even the challenge we faced , we face them together . We were all in it together and we were all pull for the same matter , to make a great show . And I loved every minute of it . It ’s really hard to see at that kind of stuff and say ' Give me more . ' Because enough is enough . Oh my god . It was everything . It was everything . How can everything not be enough ? "
While Whedon and Fillion mull it over , Fox is in no risk of run out of nostalgic material . The re - launch ofPrison Breakis scheduled for April ; Madden said he was optimistic a new time of year ofThe 10 - Fileswould premiere in 2018 .
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