It was very strange because we knew there were negotiations going on, we knew there were concerns. That's really normal on a television show. It's usually one year at a time, and even a year is sometimes a question. I've worked on shows that you start out and you have a thirteen order and you wait to see if you're going to have an entire season. And oft-times, you don't.

Every year to me it's like, "Well, that's been a good year, I wonder if we'll get another one." And three years running we did get another one. This time, there was a two-year pick-up, so we felt a little more confident than usual, but even then, this is television. I didn't know the specifics of the deal, that there was an out clause or anything else, but it didn't surprise me at all. There almost always is.

So, I knew there were discussions going on, but it seemed to be going well. The mood was, "Any day now we're going to lock it down. Any day now we're going to get the official word, and then your agent's going to start making the deals for next year."

Then we were at Spectrum films one morning for a rough cut, and it was a good cut, we took some notes, had some thoughts, everything seemed to be going wonderfully. I noticed David was just a little quieter than usual that morning. Then we all went out into the cafeteria area and David sat us all down and said, "Guess what, we've just heard this morning that there's not going to be a season five." "Oh, now I understand why he was a little subdued."

We just all sat there and looked at each other like, "What happened?". Because it had been so - "Looks good, looks good," then, nothing. So it was a bigger shock to all of us. It wasn't like, "Doesn't look good, and here's the confirmation," it was all, "Looks like things are going to work out," and suddenly they don't. It was a big shock to the system.

What was behind the reason to announce the cancellation in a live chat?

David felt that it was important to tell people about it. We'd had fans who had been with us for so long, and given the show such devotion and such energy and such faithfulness that we should be the ones to break the news to them.

So he called up Ben and me and said, "Let's get online and do this." Which for David, who's not the most technically adept person, was a challenge. But it was something he really wanted to do, so we did it.