For fans of the show who don't know

After months of fielding questions from fans desperate to know if Sci Fi was ever going to make a decision on the fate of its clever private-eye/fantasy hybrid The Dresden Files, it's official: The show isn't returning for a second season.

A shame, but hardly a surprise, given the reticence to discuss the matter every time I brought it up to Sci Fi or NBC Universal Cable execs during the recent TCA press tour. In their world, it's all about "running the numbers" (in other words: looking at the ratings and budgets, etc.) and to them, Dresden just didn't seem to measure up.

This confirmation came my way the same morning that there are reports in the trades that Paul Blackthorne, Dresden's very appealing star, has joined the cast of ABC's Big Shots in a recurring role as what's being described as the show's "fifth CEO... a sophisticated, iconic tycoon that the [other] four (Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus, Joshua Malina) aspire to be."

At least he's landed on his feet. Harry Dresden would be proud.

Source: TVGuide.com

I don't know whether or not to be happy about the cancellation of Dresden Files because they didn't do the books justice or sad at the lost of what could be a great show on it's own with  ideas from the book.   

Though all in all if Butcher had more voice on what was going on with his characters and JM was Harry it probably done a bit better.

*shrugs* then again I'm bias on this subject b/c Bob was not a ghost of a man he was skull that had glittery floaty flakes that was perv.

Well now I definitely have to see it :P My favourite shows always die off since mainstream idiots usually don't like them, and growing up my mom's philosophy is me and her went to see the movies that the critics hated, lol

I'm just personally glad that JM didn't sign up for it, cause that would've really sucked huge donkey balls.

And I can't really weigh in on the loss of the show, since I never watched it... Sorry.

Those bastards cancelled my show! :grr:

Yes there were somethings they changed that I didn't like, Bianca being one of them, but I still liked the show. Ahh hell, at least I still have my books.

Whatever will happen to my Bob :-(

Bob was my hero in dresden files, i call for  Bob the series!

Boo! I kind of figured that was the case, though. I did like the series, although I don't think it was handled as well as it should have been. Completely separate from whether it was true to the books, I thought some episodes were pretty weak, and it suffered from having the order shuffled around.

Honestly, I don't think the source material was quite suited to TV format. Jim Butcher's plots are elaborate and very, very twisty, much too complicated for a 42 minute episode. So, anything we saw was going to seem like watered-down Dresden. I think it would've worked better if they'd done them as movies, one book per movie. Of course, they're already up to book 9, and Butcher claims he can go to 20, and I don't see the fan base sustaining that kind of movie franchise.

I am sad that we'll never get to see James as Thomas, though. It seemed like he was up for it, and him and Paul Blackthorne together? Mmmm.

Jim is optimistic for a try of something else once the options become available again, so we might see it pitched as a movie. Even one that's decently done would be good for book sales. As long as they had the wise-ass humor, and the special effects didn't look cheesy, I think we could have a winner.

I'm new to the Dresden books, so this might be a rather stupid question:  In which book is "Thomas" introduced?

Book 3, Grave Peril. He makes a brief appearance in that, and again in book 5, Death Masks, but it's not until Blood Rites (book 6) that we get his full story.

Just got one of the books, not sure of the title or where it is in the series- it was the only one in the library- but Thomas is in it (briefly so far).  It is much better than the show was.  I only watched a few episodes of that before I gave up on it.

The book order:

Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Death Masks, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, Proven Guilty, and White Knight.

Jim Butcher comes out with a book once a year. The first four have been turned into audio books read by James. Jim has about 20 books planned for the series, total.

CM

Thanks for listing the Dresden Book sequence - Very sorry to see the show was cancelled - while not as good as the books, still it was starting to get better and was another scifi-horror program to watch -

Wonder if Blood Ties is going to make a return? 

Just finished reading "Death Masks."  I have to say, that having Thomas, who is supposed to be based on "Spike, wear a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" t-shirt, made me laugh out loud! :)  It was priceless!

FetchingMadScientist

I agree 100%.  I read it, re-read it and laughed until my roommate thought I had lost it.  (then I called my sister and told her...she laughed, until I thought something was wrong with her) LOL.