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“Santa Clarita Diet” Creator Still Hoping for “Some Kind of Closure” for the Cancelled Series

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It was back in April 2019 that Netflix cancelled cannibal comedy “Santa Clarita Diet” after three seasons, making it one of the many original shows from the streaming service that unfortunately ended without a storyline resolution. We have no reason to believe Netflix has any interest in reversing that decision, so it’s likely we’ve seen the last of Sheila and Joel.

How does series creator Victor Fresco feel about that? Speaking with LADbible this month, Fresco indicated that he’d personally love to be able to bring closure to the show.

“That’s something I think we all would want to do if everyone was available. Emotionally, everyone on the show would love to do some kind of closure,” Fresco told the site.

He continued, “There were online petitions. Hundreds of thousands of people signed. I felt badly because your job as a writer is to get people invested in your show emotionally. We did that and then the rug was pulled from under them. It was a hard thing to process.”

SEASON 3 SPOILERS BELOW.

“Santa Clarita Diet” centered on Sheila and Joel (Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant), a married couple whose lives take a darkly comedic turn when Sheila dies and is reanimated with a need for human flesh. The third (and final) season of the series ended with Sheila biting Joel, teasing a fourth season wherein both Sheila and Joel are undead cannibals.

“We thought it would be fun to do a season with Joel and Sheila in the same boat – what that would look like. I feel like this would be better for us and better for our fans too,” Fresco explains in the chat with LADbible, where he touches upon some more Season 4 hopes.

Head over to LADbible to read the full interview.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Sandra Yi Sencindiver in “Foundation”

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