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I've enjoyed watching The 4400 myself, but I think maybe it's run it's course. There comes a point sometimes when an idea is just stretched too far (e.g.: "Lost" after episode 8 of season 1) and should be left to finish. Maybe they could wrap it up with a one-off if people felt they needed closure.

If they do make another season, I'll be there watching it, but if they don't, I won't feel cheated.

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Then, send as much walking sticks you can, to save Dead Zone as well.
Seriously, Dead Zone jumped the shark when he threw his stick on s2, with sporadic good stuff in s3. Only the premiere & season finale were valuable, since that very day.

Closing the armageddon-arc in a telefilm would be great.
Perhaps they don't deserve a full-length season, but at least 90mn each.

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Good luck. I think it would be nice if they got one more season to wrap everything up.

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We always blame people like Bonnie Hammer for deep-sixing shows that have run their course. Not every cancellation is a Farscape, though.

These shows would have been great if they had been kicked off with a limit on their runs - say, three or four seasons. The stories told by these shows don't warrant much more than that. When you leave it open ended, the show wanders and refuses to carry the main plotline forward, and people stop watching.

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I don’t think its coming back but I also don’t think a movie to wrap things up is that much to ask? With a mandate that even people who only watched season 1 should be able to watch the movie and keep up with things.

The 4400 was a big hit for USA in the early days and I suspect a movie that was promoted right could draw in people who haven’t watched the show for years (therefore making it profitable for USA to do it in the first place)

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Plus, there is the 'Pretender' jurisprudence (axed... then 1,2,3 movies).
Which may also come-come back...

I agree with "l'emmerdeur" (since i am one too), they've got on the air way too long and/or affected by wrong choices.
Dead Zone should have stopped at its best : season 3. Season 5 was crap, season 6 was...well, the worst reboot ever. I was hoping the two new writers would show up with great materials, not the "rip-off of the week", leading DZ six feet under after the death of the Piller Senior.

4400 was kinda great since it was struck by lighting mid-season 2. Evolving plotlines, a writer's dreams material with huge dramatic potential but not used at it should be (as DZ was ages ago), sometimes at its best, sometimes, well, at its worst.

90mn movie would wrap things great, plus, 4400 is a good worldwide dvd seller, so it could add more flavour to the broadcast release. $$, anyone ?

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