I don’t know what exactly prompted me to look up the cur­rent sta­tus of one of my favorite TV shows but I did. Dead Like Me has been can­celed after the sec­ond sea­son and there haven’t been any plans of a renewal for a long time. Then, on April 17th, 2008, MGM announced that there will be a movie that will be released directly to DVD. So, today I did a search on that topic and I came up with quite a few inter­est­ing bits of information.

First of all, almost all of the orig­i­nal cast made it back. Only two actors, namely Mandy Patinkin and Laura Har­ris, weren’t able to. Any­way, the new head reaper will be Lost’s Desmond aka Henry Ian Cusick. As for the role of Daisy Adair, Sarah Wyn­ter will step into the foot­steps of Laura Har­ris. I don’t like that much but what can I do? In con­trast, there are good news too: If the film works well, the series may well be back on the small screen!

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