Showrunner Gabrielle Stanton says that although the decision to cancel the series came after they had wrapped production on the fifth season, they had been prepared for the end.
- August 19, 2015
AceShowbiz -
"Haven" is coming to an end after five seasons. Syfy has decided to pull the plug on the drama series, which will air its last 13 episodes starting this October. The first half of the fifth season aired in 2014.
Showrunner Gabrielle Stanton promises a "satisfying" ending although the fifth season had already been filmed before the network decided to cancel the series, because they approached the fifth season as the final season. "I'm sure as a fellow TV fan, there's nothing more annoying than when a show kind of feels like it might be wrapping up, but they just don't address it, they don't come to any kind of satisfying ending," she tells TheWrap.
Stanton continues, "I always think that's cheating the audience a little bit, of a nice satisfying ending. So we really looked at these 13 episodes as if... if we were indeed going to end, what would be the best ending we could possibly do for 'Haven'?" She adds, "We approached as if it was going to be our final season, so we were ready for it story-wise."
Stanton also says of the series finale, "We left it open but it is the series finale, we think the fans will be satisfied. We didn't want to leave it on a giant cliffhanger, just in case we didn't come back. We didn't want to leave fans going, 'Wait a minute!' because I've seen shows do that, and as a viewer, it's just so frustrating. So as a writer it was kind of nice to say, ok, if this is the end, how can we leave this world in the most satisying way possible?"
While she believes that the show's production companies eOne and Piller/Segan/Shepard are shopping the series to other networks or streaming service, she can't talk further about it since she's "not involved in those discussions." However, she's more than willing to continue the story should "Haven" find a new home.
