In recent news February 30th
2015, the CW Network, a joint venture between CBS and Warner Bros has declared
its intention to dissolve it’s partnership due to what they will only refer to
as, “lack of financial assurance”, in other words—Bankruptcy. Hollywood economists have calculated that
the inciting incident leading to their fall was the cancelation of the show “Ringer”,
in 2012. If you’re one of the few who aren’t familiar with “Ringer” here’s a
brief description; it’s about twin sisters one a former drug addict and
prostitute takes the identity of her high class identical twin sister becoming
a wife, stepmother, and target to many of her sister’s enemies. The show was cut short prematurely due to the
Network’s inability to effectively market to an audience not familiar or too
familiar with their CW logo. The network’s faithful viewers are adolescence.
While teens have the time and watch the most amount of TV, outgrowing the
network is inevitable and those who look back on the time think of it as
adolescent folly. (Yes, it was last week, but still)
We asked if the CW had considered
bringing back “Ringer”, what ten million people, five times the original fan
base have been talking about on Utube for the past three years. They commented
“they had no intension of bringing back a show they scrapped.” but we recently heard from a yet to be disclosed network
who purchased the show from them in 2014 during the CW’s attempt to recover the
monumental losses of 2013. The undisclosed network is airing the second season
of “Ringer” next fall for the 2015-2016 season, since all the original cast
members are conveniently free.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played
both the twins, is ready to come out of maternity leave for more than
occasional guest star appearances. Kristoffer Polaha’s recent role of Peter in
the unexpected indie blockbuster “Fishermen”, the modern day retelling of the
story of Jesus, has catapulted his stardom and made him pray for a simple role
to remain visible and working, while he keeps things normal for his family. The
sudden cancelation of the latest Syfy Vampire series, “Black Soul”, after the
tragic death of his human co-star, (don’t drink and drive), has left Nestor Carbonell
free. He really doesn’t age. Ioan Gruffudd also experienced a tragic death—on
screen that is. His character, Charles Wilson on the PBS series “Downtown Abbey”
was gun down this season so he’ll be joining the rest of the cast in the fall.
A new staff writer of the
resurrected “Ringer”, Julia Wells said, “this time around we won’t do a soft
marketing approach, leaving the audience in the dark. The second season has the
feisty good twin Bridget, as a condition of not going to jail for a kidnapping
she had nothing to do with, working with the FBI while she nurses her broken
heart. Meanwhile, Siobhan the vindictive twin continues to lie and scheme in
order to destroy Andrew, her husband, who she returns to under the guise of
being Bridget, who he fell madly in love with during season I. Andrew believing his wife committed suicide
is willing to pretend for the world that the woman he believes is Bridget is
Siobhan. Will he noticed in his sleep
deprived state, as he helps Siobhan take care of twins Bridget, “took custody
of after the death of a friend”, that
he’s living with the wife who cheated on him and his own twins or will his
affection soften Siobhan’s stone cold heart? Sarah Michelle Gellar in her role
of Bridget will use her fighting skills she learned from Buffy and Zoey Deutch’s
character the beautiful teenage Juliet will finally get a boyfriend. (Oh, every
girls’ dream! We can experience it vicariously through her.) The premiere
episode will catch you up, so even if you don’t have the time to see the first
season airing this summer, watch the seasons two premiere of Ringer this fall.”
Ahh… such a happy ending. I really
did write the first two episodes of Ringer Season Two and was bummed to learn
it was canceled. I think I’m still going
through my stages of grief. To help me along, like parents tell their children
when they have a bad dream, I imagined a happy ending. The good guys win and
something was learned in all the hardship; the movie “Fisherman” sounds cool (it just came to me),
success can be had after what some may call a failure (1.8million fans is not a
failure by my standards), and people will remember Ringer.
