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26.01.2005
Maureen Ryan dla Chichago Tribune

Fans of quality WB fare had two questions Tuesday, when it was announced that the WB and UPN will fold next September and form a new network called The CW: Whither "Everwood"? What about "Gilmore Girls"?

Would the new network, which is supposed to cherry-pick the best shows from both networks, pick up both of these much-loved shows?

In the case of "Gilmore Girls," not to worry (well, worry a little. More on that in a bit).

"Definitely the show is coming back" next year, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said Wednesday. "The show is doing well, we have an awesome cast and there’s some compatibility with other shows they’ll probably have, like [UPN’s] `Veronica Mars.’ … It could be kind of exciting."

The hitch: Sherman-Palladino and her husband, "Gilmore Girls" executive producer Daniel Palladino, aren’t sure they’ll be back at the helm of the show next year.

"We don’t have a contract for next year. … And we haven’t had a break in six years. We’re tired," Palladino said. If they don’t reach an agreement to continue working on the show in its seventh year, the WB has the option of continuing "Gilmore Girls" without them, the couple noted.

One other bit of fallout from the merger: A new show the couple was developing for the WB is no longer going to happen. "Everyone was really gung-ho, then not so much," Sherman-Palladino said. "The WB was acting in a way that felt very weird to us. Now we believe that the reason things were so weird is because behind the scenes," merger talks were taking place.

As for "Everwood," the future is less certain.

"At this point, we haven’t been given any indication one way or another about the fate of our show," "Everwood" executive producer Rina Mimoun said Wednesday via e-mail. But she and show creator Greg Berlanti hope that new CW chief Dawn Ostroff (the former head of UPN) will "fall in love with our little mountain town," Mimoun said.

"We still have many more stories to tell, not to mention a giant wedding ahead," she added. "We will continue to do our best to maintain the quality that has kept `Everwood’ one of TV’s best kept secrets. And maybe on this new network, we won’t be a secret anymore!"