Nun ja, all good things must come to an end. Aber so kann man davon ausgehen das
es ein richtiges Ende gibt, da ja noch eine ganze Staffel aussteht in der die
Handlungsbögen abgeschlossen werden können.

HBO Ready to Bury 'Six Feet'
Sat Nov 6, 8:25 AM ET

By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO is preparing a eulogy for "Six Feet Under."

The pay cabler confirmed Friday that the upcoming fifth season of "Six Feet"
will be the last for the ensemble drama revolving around the trials and
tribulations of a family that runs a mortuary. Series creator/executive
producer Alan Ball recently informed HBO executives that he felt the show will
have run its creative course by the end of the upcoming 12-episode season.

"Working on 'Six Feet Under' has been enormously fulfilling creatively, but if
the show is about anything, it's about the fact that everything comes to an end,
" Ball said in a statement. "I will miss working with such enormously talented
writers, cast, staff and crew and I'll always be grateful to HBO for allowing
and encouraging us to tell the story we set out to tell in a challenging and
uncompromising way."

"Six Feet" has been a critical darling for HBO, if not a commercial hit on the
scale of "The Sopranos" or "Sex and the City," since its 2001 debut. The drama -
- whose ensemble cast includes Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Rachel Griffiths (
news), Lauren Ambrose (news) and Frances Conroy -- has been showered with Emmy
nominations -- it earned 16 Emmy bids in 2002, its first year of eligibility,
and 23 noms in 2003 -- but has yet to claim the top drama series prize in the
annual Emmy derby.

"Six Feet" is a project that has been particularly close to the heart of
Carolyn Strauss, HBO entertainment president, who originally dreamed up the
notion of doing a series set in a mortuary. She pitched the idea to Ball, who
was then hot off the success of his Oscar-winning screenplay for "American
Beauty," and the writer-producer fell for it immediately.

"Dealing with death seemed like a very common experience that we could all
relate to, and (the mortuary setting) seemed like a great lens for a fairly
ironic show," Strauss said. "It also seemed like the kind of show that only (
HBO) could do."

Strauss was quick to praise Ball and the rest of the "Six Feet" crew for "all
the impressive work. It's been a fantastic experience to be associated with
this show," she said.

Production on "Six Feet's" fifth season is set to begin Nov. 16, but a premiere
date has not yet been set, Strauss said. Word of "Six Feet's" swan song season
comes at a time when HBO is already in a transitional phase after bidding
farewell to "Sex and the City" this year, while its other original series
tentpole, "The Sopranos," isn't due back for its final season until 2006.

HBO has the sophomore season of its wild Western "Deadwood" on tap to premiere
in January, followed in March by the return of Depression-era drama "Carnivale."
Other series in the production pipeline at HBO are "Big Love," starring Bill
Pullman as a modern-day polygamist in Utah, and the big-budget costume drama "
Rome."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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