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He refused, so a series of Deadwood movies became the compromise with HBO.
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Milch, reportedly, was offered an abbreviated fourth season, one with a restricted budget and only a handful of episodes. Some reports have HBO turning against Deadwood simply because it was co-produced by Paramount, meaning the network had to share Deadwood’s profits with the studio, and why would they bother to do that when they could just produce a new show on their own and keep all the cash? Other rumors have HBO and Paramount never coming to terms with who should pay for what on the pricey series, HBO canceling the show in frustration, and then realizing (too late) after the DVD sales came in that they’d made a terrible mistake. What we do know is that HBO was under new management at this time, and certain people in power had major issues with the amount of money being spent on the period piece.
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(There isn’t even a sheriff’s office by the end of Season Three…Seth and Charlie Utter are still using Charlie’s storefront to conduct official sheriff’s business.) No malevolent interference from the network is to blame for this deviation from the plan - Milch acknowledges that he just didn’t get around to that scene. The final episodes of Deadwood have a very different ending, however, with Bullock once again shoved to the background so that Al Swearengen can commit another morally dubious act that will somehow work to the camp’s benefit. This dramatic standoff is taken directly from history (the plotting of Deadwood often used history as its guide, even if the show wasn’t afraid to alter the details), and HBO loved the idea so much, they were prepared to use it as a promotional image for Season Three. What Milch has revealed is that Season Three was supposed to end with Sherriff Bullock, having lost the county election, refusing to leave his office, even when armed men attempt to remove him. Additionally, almost every episode of the show takes place the day after the last, so barely two weeks tend to pass during an entire season. The amount of time that passes between each season doesn’t match this schedule, either - the gap between seasons one and two is anywhere between seven months and a year, based on different dialogue exchanges, and Season Three begins only a few weeks after Season Two ends. There’s no evidence David Milch ever intended to be that strict, and his own words show he doesn’t plan his stories so far in advance.
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The original Deadwood camp existed for four years before it was consumed by fire, and Deadwood the TV series, we’re now told, was conceived to have each season represent one year of the camp, before ending the show with the eradicating fire. Although some claim that any talk of a four season plan for Deadwood only occurred after the show’s cancellation, it’s become accepted lore that the series was always intended to run this length.