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Tru Calling is an American television program, which premiered on the Fox Network in October 2003. The show's cancellation was officially announced at a press conference in January 2005, but Gail Berman, then president of Fox, insisted that the network intended to broadcast the remaining six episodes filmed for the show's second season. Season Two of Tru Calling (such as it was) aired in New Zealand on TV3 beginning on February 4 2005, with the last episode airing on March 11, 2005. In Croatia, it was aired the following March and April, and finally, after nearly a year-long hiatus, in the U.S. beginning on March 31. The last episode filmed was never broadcast in the U.S., presumably because the show had a Christmas theme and the episodes were broadcast in the Spring. The complete series was aired in Singapore, Hong Kong, India, France, Malaysia, Germany, Slovakia, Brazil and Portugal as well. DVDs of both seasons of Tru Calling have been released in the United States and the United Kingdom. The second season began airing on Sky One in the UK, starting on October 12, 2006.
PremiseSpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Supporting characters who only lasted for a portion of the series included Meredith Davies (Jessica Collins), Tru's drug addicted sister, Lindsay Walker (A. J. Cook), her best friend in the first season, Luc Johnston (Matthew Bomer), her love interest in the first season, and Gardez (Benjamin Benitez), her former co-worker at the morgue. Jack Harper (played by Jason Priestly), a counterpart to Tru's character, is introduced midseason as a foil and possible love interest. He is there to make sure fate got its way, and introduces a philosophical aspect to Tru's endeavors: should she be saving the lives of people who may have been intended to die? In the second season, Tru and Jack compete to get to a person first — she to save them, and he to restore the order of fate, and maintain what he believes to be the balance of the universe. Episode ListControversy and cancellationTru Calling has been cited by television critics, bloggers, and science-fiction fans as an example of a series that was not given time to find an audience, or adequately to develop its premise[citation needed]. On the other hand, some websites refused even to cover the show in their "spoiler" listings, claiming that it was too contrived and difficult to watch, and the addition of Jason Priestley to the cast arguably failed to increase ratings. Further hype and speculation was generated by the show's season-ending cliffhanger, with Jack revealing himself to be Tru's nemesis, and even having a working relationship with her father.
Finally, after almost a year's gap, Fox Television started broadcasting the last six filmed episodes of Tru Calling in March 2005, in place of Point Pleasant, which had been cancelled. Ironically, these episodes achieved better ratings than Point Pleasant during their run, with practically no advertising. The second season also did very well in New Zealand during its run there in February and March. On April 20 2005, Fox announced that the sixth and final episode would not be aired, and that the series would end its run one week early with the episode that had been intended to be shown the following evening. Network executives felt it would be peculiar to show an episode with a partial Christmas theme (the show had originally been planned to debut on November 4, putting the sixth episode near Christmas) in late April. Instead, they showed in its slot two episodes of The Simple Life. ComparisonsThe series' use of time travel as a weekly device led some viewers to compare it to two other television series that fans feel were unfairly cancelled – Quantum Leap and Sliders – as well as the film Groundhog Day. Critics of the comparison note that while Tru Calling's "rewind" format is similar to the notions of time travel or parallel worlds, the series stayed clear of using its format to address philosophical or social issues, until near the end when it touched broadly on the notion of fate. On November 10, 2006 during Lost's hiatus, the ABC began airing another same day time repeating show Day Break where its protagonist, Detective Brett Hopper (played by Taye Diggs), is caught in a single day time loop in which he is framed for murdering Assistant District Attorney Alberto Garza. In each cycle he obtains clues as to who is responsible and why. Unlike Tru Calling's mostly self contained single story episodes, Day Break's first season is a 13 episode story arc was scheduled to end at the end of January 2007. However, on December 15, 2006 due to falling ratings, ABC cancelled Day Break only after airing six episodes, but aired the last seven online, with the last on March 2, 2007. What Might Have BeenAfter the show's cancellation, writer/producer Doris Egan posted information on LiveJournal detailing how the mythology of the series would likely have been developed, had it continued. Some salient points include:
Image:TruCalling S2.jpg Season 2 DVD Set Fan-Made Continuations of the SeriesFans have created a site to continue the series in written format. Episodes are written and posted regularly, and the writers are doing all they can to remain true to the show. The third "season" will have sixteen episodes, of which, seven have been completed, with an eighth in development. When added to the six episodes that were actually shot in the second season, the total number is twenty-two, which is the standard number of episodes for a television season. The title of the site, "Relive a Day Foundation", is a reference to a fictional charity that Tru set up in the second season, the "Relive Your Day Foundation". CastMain Characters
Special Guest Stars Season two featured some recurring "Special Guest Stars" that probably would have been considered part of the main cast had the series lasted longer (the way Matthew Bomer and Benjamin Benitez were recurring guest stars before being added to the main cast in the first season).
Guest Stars Tru's two Medical School friends were also recurring characters in season two, although because they were only listed as "Guest Stars", it is unknown whether they would have eventually joined the regular cast or not.
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