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Trending worldwide earlier on Twitter was the hashtag: #RenewYoungJustice.

Young Justice writer and creator Greg Weisman and fans around the globe tweeted out support to bring back the Young Justice series that Cartoon Network cancelled rather abruptly in the Spring of 2013.

The retweets for support quickly numbered over 32,000 in just a couple of hours.

Weisman’s Twitter account is currently lit up with overwhelming support for bringing back the fan-favorite series.

“I hope the fandoms effort will bring the show back, it’s an amazing show!” one fan tweeted out enthusiastically.

“I had literal tears running down my cheeks,” another fan tweeted about the #RenewYoungJustice hashtag picking up steam. “Talk about intense.”

Likewise, Weisman responded to a fan’s question if he sees himself working on Young Justice in the future with: “I hope so.”

Weisman even provided the address that fans could write Cartoon Network to show their support, noting it should be a polite letter:

Cartoon Network
300 N 3rd St.
Burbank, CA 91502

Specific reasons why Young Justice was cancelled aren’t exactly known, but DC animated Paul Dini’s told Kevin Smith that network executives didn’t want girls watching the series.

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SyFy has confirmed cancellation of Haven, with the 13-episode second half of season five being its last.

Showrunner Gabrielle Stanton noted the creative team was prepared for Season 5 to be the finish to the story, which should provide a satisfying conclusion.

“I’m sure as a fellow TV fan, there’s nothing more annoying than when a show kind of feels like it might be wrapping up, but they just don’t address it, they don’t come to any kind of satisfying conclusion,” Stanton told The Wrap. “I always think that’s cheating the audience a little bit, of a nice satisfying ending. So we really looked at these 13 episodes as if… If we were indeed going to end, what would be the best ending we could possibly do for Haven?”

Stanton does note a TV movie following the finale is always possible if there’s enough demand from the fans.

“I think it will feel satisfying on its own as a finale for a series as a whole,” she said. “But if fans wanted a TV movie after that, I bet you’d find some actors and writers who are very amenable to that.”

It’s also noted Haven could survive at another network or Netflix, with there being interest on the part of the creators and cast.

“I’m sure that [the show’s production companies] eOne and Piller/Segan/Shepard are out there looking at that option, which is out there now. It’s so cool, that that option now exists where it never used to. I can’t speak to it personally because I’m not involved in those discussions.”

“Haven” resumes Oct. 8 at 10/9c.

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Recently it became known that a new Friday The 13th TV series is in development at The CW, and now new details have become known.

The new series was previously described as: The ongoing quest of a detective’s search for his missing brother that is somehow tied to Jason Vorhees, a long thought dead serial killer who has now returned to wreak havoc in the new Crystal Lake.

Legion Of Leia caught up with Steve Mitchell,  writer on the new Friday 13th series, who offered the following tidbits:

• The feel of the show is described as a “cross between the first season of True Detective and Twin Peaks on acid.”

• They didn’t want to do a weekly show about a guy wielding a machete chasing scantily clad women.

• They reinvented Crystal Lake as more of a thriving town similar to a Silicon Valley filled with young rich people who have a lot of time on their hands, and at the same time there are old people who grew up there (and remember Jason).

• The new Crystal Lake is said to be similar to the town from Jaws or Amityville 20 years later.

• The cop discovers his lost brother was looking into Jason: “Is this Jason or is this a copycat? Is it possible that Jason has been around all these years? Is Jason a monster? Is he real? Is he a serial killer? And really exploring who and what Jason is, is part of the whole thrill of the show.”

• The movies will be acknowledged in that the movies were made following the events of Jason; however, the young people just know Jason from the movies, while the older people there know what happened.

• Mitchell added: “The underlying thematic of the whole thing is that Jason is a monster in this town. He openly wears a mask. But everybody in this town wears a mask. Underneath those is the monster.”

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A Friday The 13th TV series is currently in development at the CW.

Steve Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle, creators of the 1996 NBC series The Pretender, are writing the new series.

Deadline reports the new Friday the 13th series reimagines Jason with a stronger feel of grounded reality and is described as a sophisticated, horror/crime thriller.

The new Friday The 13th series is said to be about the ongoing quest of a detective’s search for his missing brother that is somehow tied to Jason Vorhees, a long thought dead serial killer who has now returned to wreak havoc in the new Crystal Lake.

Friday The 13th, created by Sean S. Cunningham, originated in 1980 spawning many sequels featuring the hockey-mask machete-wielding killer.