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AMC’S RUBICON HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY CANCELED

AMC has issued the following statement today:

AMC will not be renewing original series, “Rubicon,” for a second season. “Rubicon” premiered on AMC on August 1, 2010 and was produced by Warner Horizon Television.

“‘Rubicon’ gave us an opportunity to tell a rich and compelling story, and we’re proud of the series. This was not an easy decision, but we are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a phenomenally talented and dedicated team.”

TO THE FANS: IF YOU STILL WISH TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR MORE RUBICON, CONTINUE TO SEND YOUR LETTERS TO AMC AND, ALSO, DIRECTV.

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Additional Promo Photos For Rubicon Episodes 2, 3, 5 And 6

Around two dozen new photos have been added to the Rubicon Season 1 Photo Gallery.

Updated episode galleries include: The First Day Of School, Keep The Ends Out, Connect The Dots, Look To The Ant

AMC’s Decision To Renew/Cancel Rubicon Forthcoming In November (?)

AMC President and General Manager Charlie Collier spoke with The Daily Beast’s Jace Lacob in the run-up to the network’s premiere of The Walking Dead and the fate of Rubicon was touched upon in his article:

The fate of Rubicon, meanwhile, remains up in the air, though Collier indicated a decision will be made in the next two to three weeks. Despite garnering the highest-rated launch for AMC to date this summer, the conspiracy thriller had a hard time attracting viewers on a weekly basis. Still, don’t count it out.

“We nurture projects like no one else,” Collier said. “Season 1 has been a great success. I think it is a remarkable piece of television. Our job is to make sure we can continue to scale and fit it all in.”

Full Article: Mad Men’s Network, AMC, Launches The Walking Dead Sunday – The Daily Beast

For those wishing to show your support, time appears to be short. Visit the Rubicon-TV.Info Renewal support page to find out where you can write to voice your appreciation for this great series!

Why ‘Rubicon’ Is the Perfect Spy Show for the Obama Era – The New Republic

When it started out, Rubicon seemed to be a straightforward homage to the Hollywoodparanoid-conspiracy classics of the 1970s. Like All the President’s Men, it featured an everyman hero—Will Travers, played by James Badge Dale—who doggedly uncovers a conspiracy at the highest levels of power. Like The Parallax View, it posited a secret organization that has the power to make people commit murder or even suicide on cue—the series opened with a distinguished-looking businessman receiving a four-leaf clover in the mail and promptly blowing his brains out.

Like The Conversation, it created a world in which everyone is under surveillance—a scene in which Will tears his apartment to pieces looking for bugs evoked Gene Hackman’s breakdown at the end of the Coppola movie. Most important, like Three Days of the Condor, it was set in a think tank—the American Policy Institute, Will’s employer—that turns out to be a government front. In the movie, the CIA ruthlessly orders the massacre of its own employees when Robert Redford accidentally uncovers a high-level conspiracy; in “Rubicon,” it is Will’s discovery of a code hidden in a newspaper crossword puzzle that results in the murder of his superior, David Hadas (played by Peter Gerety), and sets the series’ plot in motion.

Full Article: The Season Finale Of ‘Rubicon’ And The Obama Era | The New Republic

The Season Finale Of ‘Rubicon’ And The Obama Era – The New Republic

All the attention paid to the season finale of “Mad Men,” last Sunday night more or less eclipsed the finale of AMC’s other Sunday-night drama, “Rubicon.” It’s not clear yet whether Rubicon will be back for another season—it hasn’t exactly gotten rave reviews (New York Magazine’s verdict: “A promising show that started with a train crash ends up kind of a train wreck.” But complaints about the series’ slow narrative pace and uneven performances shouldn’t be allowed to obscure what made “Rubicon” so fascinating: its subversion, even deconstruction, of the very spy-thriller clichés it was built on.

Full Article:The Season Finale Of ‘Rubicon’ And The Obama Era | The New Republic

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Want To See AMC’s Rubicon Renewed? Show Your Support For Season 2!

Even when achieving respectable ratings and garnering many positive reviews, genre shows like Rubicon often have a hard time surviving on television. The best time for fans to show their support is BEFORE a show is canceled. At this point in time, Rubicon’s status is unknown.

For those fans who might wish to show their support for future episodes of Rubicon, I’ve put together a page of contact info and the recommended ways to do so.

AMC RUBICON SEASON 2 RENEWAL OR CANCELATION / RUBICON-TV.INFO :: RUBICON INFORMATION ARCHIVE : AMC Rubicon TV Series FanSite & Forum

It should be noted that REAL letters and postcards have been shown to carry much more weight than emails.

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Exclusive: Rubicon Boss Makes a Case for Second Season – TV Guide

“I just don’t believe in wrapping it up that simply,” Bromell tells TVGuide.com. “It’s not interesting drama. It’s a little more conventional, a little easier. I just don’t believe in it in this case. The truth is that it’s not that easy to stop the bad guys.”

Rather than admitting defeat and giving Will all the answers, Truxton, who has also been marked for death by his associates, dares Will to go public with what he knows. “Truxton’s got a little Cheney in him, a little Rumsfeld in him. He does not chicken out. He will never fail for lack of nerve,” Bromell says. “He’s too convinced of his own righteousness no matter what he’s doing.”

Full Article: Exclusive: Rubicon Boss Henry Bromell Makes a Case for Second Season – Today’s News: Our Take | TVGuide.com

Additional Promo Photos For Rubicon Episode 13 “You Can Never Win”

Three new photos have been added to the Rubicon-tv.Info gallery for episode 13:

More / larger Images: AMC Rubicon Photos: S01E13 / RUBICON-TV.INFO :: RUBICON INFORMATION ARCHIVE : AMC Rubicon TV Series FanSite & Forum

Note: The season may be over but new content will continue to be added to the site over the coming months. Keep checking back!

‘Mad Men’ Finale Draws 2.44 Million; ‘Rubicon’ Down in Finale – TV By The Numbers

Rubicon finished its first season with 1.04 million. That’s down from the 1.26 million its penultimate episode averaged. I haven’t seen the demo numbers yet, but Rubicon has typically averaged a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating. Sure, there’s a lot of critical acclaim, but the ratings have been anemic even by AMC’s standards

Full Article: ‘Mad Men’ Finale Draws 2.44 Million; ‘Rubicon’ Down in Finale

Rubicon Watch: I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover – Time

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pop in an old Meet Me in St. Louis DVD and watch last night’s season finale of Rubicon.

In a way, the finale played more like the second part of a two-part finale with the explosive penultimate “Wayward Sons” (indeed, its title, “You Can Never Win” could as well apply to the just-barely failure of Will and his API team to head off the terror attack that Atlas plans to profit from). But while the previous episode gave a definitive ending, if a depressing one, to the terror-hunt storyline, this finale did no such thing for the conspiracy plot—it simply set pieces in place for a future season.

Full Article: Review of Rubicon season 1 finale, You Can Never Win – Tuned In – TIME.com

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