“Ringer”, Canceled? Or was it all a bad dream? “Ringer” Season Two!

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.