“Burn Notice” fans acknowledge on Facebook and message boards that the yearning between Michael and Fiona keeps them coming back for more, but some still hope for the storybook ending. “Afterward, Michael is still Michael, Fiona is still Fiona, and none of the old issues went away,” he said. Nix said he’s tried to keep the sexual energy in “Burn Notice” while allowing occasional hook-ups between Michael and Fiona, which might be considered a creative no-no. Fans, even the ones old enough to remember Sam and Diane on “Cheers” and David and Maddie on “Moonlighting” and their jump-the-shark moments, often say they want a tidy bow on these relationships. ABC’s “Castle” has its mystery writer and homicide detective duo, and Fox’s “Bones” centers on an FBI agent and a forensic anthropologist. There are plenty of TV series past and present that revolve around lead characters’ sexual chemistry and/or unconsummated love. “You’re longing for the kind of closure and resolution you can probably never have,” Nix said. Nix said he empathizes with an unrequited love like Michael and Fiona’s, calling himself “the world’s biggest torch carrier” in his younger life, before marriage and kids. (He’s the one who shot Westen, but forgiveness may be in the air). (The project, shooting early next year, will be set before Axe’s former Navy SEAL became part of Westen’s private-eye posse.) Coby Bell joined this season as another burned spy, Jesse, who helps the gang solve the dilemma of the week and puzzle over the larger question of who kicked Westen to the curb and why. (It pulled in 6.6 million viewers for its fourth season launch in June - a 10% bump from the prior summer, according to Nielsen.)Īnother is an ensemble cast that includes Sharon Gless, who was Emmy nominated this year for her role as the super-spy’s mother, Madeline Westen, and fanboy favorite Bruce Campbell, who will get his own Sam Axe spinoff movie on USA. The prickly romance is one draw of the successful series, which drew an average of more than 7 million viewers this past summer for live, on demand and DVR airings. USA’s already ordered two more seasons, with the next set to premiere in summer 2011. The extra wrinkle is that Westen has been blacklisted - the “burn” order referred to in the title - leaving him to deal with the fallout from having his profession and identity yanked away. “Burn Notice,” based loosely on the life of former covert agent Michael Wilson, who serves as a consulting producer, looks at the personal ramifications of being a spy, Nix said. “You can’t put a label on it - it’s not a fairy tale - yet it works in its way,” Anwar said. Anwar called their relationship “deliciously unconventional” and said it reflects real life in its poor communication, hot-and-cold spells and general messiness.
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