With the WGA strike over, many shows are jumping right back into production. Well, not so for Big Love. According to BuddyTV, co-creator Will Scheffer says they are taking their time.
“It’s great we can have that much time to work on the quality of the show,” Scheffer told the Los Angeles Times. “A lot of networks will be rushing things into production, and people won’t have much time to think.”
Recent reports also indicate that Big Love’s third season, which, like fellow HBO series Entourage, originally had been scheduled to begin in the summer, won’t hit the screen until late this year or even early 2009.
Scheffer goes on to say that with the strike they had time to “revisit all the scripts” and that it “changes your creative mandate”. I have mixed feelings about that. Most of the time, too much time spent is a bad thing. I hope no major storylines are changed. Big Love was going very well towards the end of last season, and I was looking forward to seeing it continue.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:10 pm
This makes me sooooo mad! I love the show!!I really hope HBO would consider airing it in the summer or even fall 2008, that’d really be AWESOME!
April 5th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
With the Texas State troopers, Texas Rangers and investigators from Child Protective Services raiding the FLDS compound in Eldorado, TX, there’s gotta be a wealth of new material Big Love writers can eagerly draw from…………..
April 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
They seriously need to get a move on with Season 3. I am going through withdrawal! And they don’t even have the first 2 seasons on HBO On Demand anymore!
April 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
If they wait too long we will get interested in something else and they will lose their audience…don’t they think about us???
April 8th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
This is really very dissapointing. My wife and I are avid viewers of Big Love, and having to wait until (maybe) next year is really very frustrating. Just when you start to get into some great television, the writer’s strike puts a blockade on all the shows and we the public suffer! I’ve even got my kids and their friends tuning in, too . . . hate to break this news to the family. HBO . . . light a fire under the production company and get Big Love back on the tube soon.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I can’t wait for it to start either but you all have to remember that making a telivision series is a lot of work. These people put in long hours filming then it is not done after the filming. It is not a 9-5 job like most people have. I just wish people would give all these people a break. It is the writers fault that this is all happening pretty much. These strikes that all of these different groups are having these days are ridiculous. When people already make enough money or get enough benefits they just want more and more (example ball players.) When there are regular people out there that barely get by or have nothing at all. But anyhow off topic. Just give the television and production companies a break. They will get these shows out as soon as they can.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
SAD SAD SAD…… The only reason I have HBO is to watch this show… I think I will have to cancel….. been waiting to long
April 15th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Im willing to wait for season 3 as long as it takes. They say they want to focus on the quality of show. Some networks throw their programs together so fast and it shows, quite often the dialogue is horrible, unrehearsed, actors performances are less than desired. Who knows? they might have some real surprises in store for Big Love Viewers. Good things come to those who wait. Right?
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Dittos on what everyone else said…I love the show…Ridiculous I have to wait so long.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I agree with everyone who posted this is really crazy how they are delaying the show. I wanted to jump back into watching the show after being hooked on it, and i dont understand why they are taking so long.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I have been waiting and watching…checking OnDemand. Today, April 26, was the first time I saw an episode in many months, on regular HBO. Another 6 or 9 months is tooooooooooooooooo long to wait. AT LEAST begin showing BIG LOVE repeats on OnDemand and on a regular basis on regular HBO (is this starting as I saw the Season 2 finale today?). BIG LOVE is one of my favorite shows. Though I am loyal, I imagine a lot of viewers, when BIG LOVE does not come back in 6 weeks or so, will think it has been cancelled. Viewership could definately be lost. I hope not. In my experience, most people don’t search the internet for news about the shows they like.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I hate to wait that long to see Big Love again but we will wait. I am from Utah and in a pologamy family like on Big Love so we watch this as a family and relate very much too it. This is a great show and can’t wait until it returns.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
God only knows what I’d be without Big Love.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
As far as I’m concerned Big Love is over with. By the time they start working on season three, all the children on that show are going to be bigger, how are they going to play it off? I just get the feeling it won’t be the same. They took too long!
April 30th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I understand that it may take a while to come back on, but I am rather upset that HBO won’t put up episodes on demand. I mean COME ON! Give us something here!! They need to put season two on demand!! You can’t just expect us to go cold turkey here!
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I’m so glad to see that other people watch this show, too… everyone else I know has never even heard of it! I was afraid it was not coming back because only 1 person in the world watched it! Oh well… until fall or later will be a long time, but I agree… the sweet isn’t as sweet without the bitter! I hope the long wait will make the next season even more exciting!!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I’ve just canceled HBO because I’m sick of waiting .. I’ll sign up again when BIG LOVE comes back on…
May 5th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Same goes for me. The only reason I have HBO is for Big Love, especially now that Sopranos are over. I am dying for it to come back on. This show is amazing and so insightful into a lifestyle I can’t even imagine. The Texas FDLS deal has really given me a craving!! BRING IT BACK!!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I have HBO only because of “Big Love”. I just can’t wait for Season 3.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I just cancelled my HBO. I was going to cancel after the Soprano’s but got hooked on Big Love. I am tired of waiting for season 3 and will wait no longer.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I LOVE BIG LOVE!!!! I can’t wait to see season three. I hope they show Christian polygynus families like mine and not just Mormon ones.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Waiting does suck but in the mean time you can do what I did and go and buy seasons one and two on DVD. I keep watching them over and over and it fills the void…for now.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I just had HBO added to my cable service again because I was afraid I might miss Big Love. I only purchase it to watch Big Love and I am so upset that I cannot find a date for the season premier. I NEED TO KNOW!!!!! LOL. Come on HBO get a move on it, I do not want to have to cancel my subscription.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Big love is the most groundbreaking series on television. I am upset that HBO isn’t returning it sooner, and I don’t understand why season 2 isn’t on demand.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I waited and waited for Deadwood & Carnivale… but they canceled those just when they were getting good! I hope they come out with BL soon or I’m going to cancel my HBO subscription. I think they take so long just to milk us out of more money. They have to be in cahoots with Comcast!
May 12th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I LOVE BL and it is the only reason I ordered HBO and a DVR but I havent even been able to use it yet. When is season three coming? I can’t wait. Soon I hope.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I’m with those willing to wait.It’s coming and if the show isn’t supported there won’t be a season 4. Some of my favorite shows were canceled because of ratings.If everyone stops watching because they are angry they won’t keep making the show that we all love and that would be a true tragedy.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
just on HBO.com it says the premiere is on June 11 @ 9pm
May 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This is dumb. I just started getting into it. You all that are paying for it should learn to torrent. 30$ to see one show?! jeez.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Looks like June 11th is actually just a repeat of Season 2. Shoot man.