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Longmire - Season 5 is a go!!!!! *****Season 5 update*****
September 1, 2014 at
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Longmire on IMDB [imdb.com] (in case you're not familiar with the show)
Boasting almost five million viewers an episode and a pretty rabid fanbase, it was widely assumed Longmire would be auto-stamped for approval by A&E to film another season, but shockingly, the network decided to go in a different direction. Last night, the adaptation of Craig Johnson's mystery novels was up and cancelled with little more than a short, overly professional statement. It deserved so much better.
According to Deadline [deadline.com], Warner Horizons, the studio that funds and produces Longmire [cinemablend.com] is planning to try and sell the show to another network as soon as possible. Given the show's excellent ratings (4.6 million per episode average), it's likely someone else will take a bit if the price is right. It's one thing to cancel a popular show with slumping ratings after it's already been on the air for seven or eight years and has ballooned in cost. It's another thing to cut a show down in its prime just because it's off its Season 2 [cinemablend.com] average (6.1 million).
There's some speculation that the move is the result of a shift in behind the scenes strategies at A&E. Executives are allegedly pushing for more control over their programs and perhaps more importantly, a larger profit margin. As such, they supposedly want to focus on putting together projects they own, as well as air. That's obviously the ideal in theory, but it's hard to see why they couldn't just phase in the plan as they start generating new content, as opposed to blowing it up and starting immediately, especially when it means bailing on hits.
Warning some spoilers in link to rest of story:
http://www.cinemablend
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For those of you who haven't seen the show, Katee Sackhoff does a pole dance in one of the episodes.
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Netflix has confirmed there will be a season 5 of Longmire!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/...by-netflix
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What happened was, we start every one of the book tours in the Buffalo Bill Museum, which is this magnificent historical museum in Cody [Wyoming] that has just amazing collection of Indian works, art, firearms, all these things that were started up by Buffalo Bill Cody. And we start out there and we head North and we jump on a plane in Billings, Montana...and so we're on our way up there and we stop in to get something to eat, because my wife is traveling with me and it's like traveling with a trained bear. And as long as the bear stay fed it'll all be okay.
So we stop at this little cafe and we're getting something to eat and I'm wearing one of those Absaroka County Sheriff Department ball caps...Now, if you didn't know there was no so such thing Absaroka County, they look very real. So I've got one of those things on. When I'm not wearing a cowboy hat, I'm wearing one of those. And I'm writing a check for lunch and the woman behind the counter said, "Where'd you get that hat?" And she said it real aggressive-like. And I thought, "Oh no, she thinks I'm a real sheriff's deputy and somebody dined and ditched and I'm going to have to chase someone down the main street of, you know, Red Lodge, Montana."
So I pointed at my head and I said, "It's not a real county." And she didn't even pause, she looked at me and said, "The Hell it's not. It's Walt Longmire's county." And I felt like I'd been smacked and go, "Well, I'm Craig Johnson." And she goes, "Oh?" And I go, "The guy that writes the books." And she goes, "What books?" And I said, "The books that the TV show is based off of."
Is that common thing? People are surprised that are Longmire books that the show is based on?
I told Viking/Penguin that when we go on tour that was going to be our motto: "Yes, There are books." We've been on The New York Times' bestsellers list about five years running, even before the TV show started, but the boy the impact of a television show goes further.
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http://www.breathecast
Yep, season 5 is now available on Netflix!
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