After almost a year of delay, "Dead Like Me" returns with a new adventure of George Lass and her gang of grim reapers this summer. The movie alone has been something "Dead Like Me" fans have asked for over the last two years since Showtime cancelled the series, but there's something more that could be on the horizon: a resurrection of the series itself.
Ellen Muth, who plays George, is expected to talk with the online radio show Just Push Play Friday about the telemovie, which shot last year without star Mandy Pantinkin. In the interview, Muth reportedly announces that if viewership for the new telemovie is strong, there's a chance the series could be returning to television in one form or another as a revived series.
The latest project stars Henry Ian Cusick of "Lost" fame as the manager of the grim reapers, playing a character named Cameron Kane. Pantinkin, who played Rube Sofer in the original series, was unable to reprise his role in the telemovie, but sources are now saying that if the series does come back to television, Pantinkin will be back in his previous role as George's father figure of the afterlife.
It is unclear how involved creator Bryan Fuller is with the revival, moving on since the show's cancellation to work on "Heroes" on NBC, and later creating what is more or less an unofficial "Dead Like Me" spinoff, "Pushing Daisies" on ABC. The telemovie was written by Stephen Godchaux and John Masius, and directed by Stephen Herek. Both Godchaux and Masius were executive producers on the old series, combining to write seven episodes during the show's limited run. Herek directed "Life or Something Like It" in 2002 as well as "Mr. Holland's Opus" in 1995.
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