ABC isn’t stopping with the Once Upon a Time renewal, no sir!

The network has given notification of pickup to six other series besides OUAT, E! News has confirmed. So who’s in and who’s out?

ABC has renewed four dramas: Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Grey’s Anatomy and Castle, and three comedies: Modern Family, The Middle and Suburgatory.

Before fans of other ABC series start a panic riot, know that the rest have not exactly been put to rest in the TV graveyard. Still awaiting their fate: Body of Proof, Last Man Standing, Private Practice, Missing, Scandal, Happy Endings and GCB. It’s a safe bet that some of these series will get the Community treatment and get a shortened episode order.

More renewal news will continue to come out as the networks prepare for Upfront presentations next week in New York City.

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Now that Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett (Stana Katic) have finally done the deed, where will we find the two characters when “Castle” resumes for Season 5 in the fall? Creator Andrew Marlowe tells Zap2it that there won’t be any major time jumps, and the show will pick up soon after Castle and Beckett went to bed together.

“I haven’t quite nailed it down, but I do think everybody is going to want to see what the aftermath looks like,” Marlowe says. “They are going to want to see what it looks like when they wake up in the morning. And I think that’s a promise that we have to honor.”

Season 4 got a little dark and stressful with Castle and Beckett too wrapped up in secrets to have as much of their usual banter, but Marlowe promises Season 5 will have that trademark “Castle” playfulness.

“[Season 4] we feel has been very creatively successful, but it’s also been a little angsty for our characters. [We're excited] to be able to get on the other side of that angst and to open that up into a little bit more of the fun that we had in [Seasons] 1 through 3,” he says. “We’re looking forward to getting to that and dealing with the two characters in a relationship, what that relationship is going to look like and the challenges that they’re going to have.”

Things won’t go smoothly just because the characters finally gave into their feelings for each other. “Castle’s not going to stop being Castle once they’re in a relationship, and Beckett is not going to stop being Beckett. Out of a relationship or in a relationship, they’re still going to drive each other crazy. There’s still a lot of fun to be had.”

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Castle creator and executive producer Andrew Marlowe knew that last night’s big moment would have fans buzzing. How could it not? After four seasons of ups, downs, and shameless flirting from both Castle and Beckett, the season 4 finale gave fans what they’d been hoping for: a chance to see the pair finally get together!

Bold? You bet. But not as bold as the alternative, says Marlowe. “Not doing it would have been even ballsier because I think the audience is near its breaking point,” he says. “And it’s 2012, people fall into and out of bed together all the time. If it had gone on any longer, we would have been bad storytellers.”

And this new path, which will find Castle and Beckett entering a relationship together in season 5? It’s full with opportunity, he says. “It was important to open up the storytelling. We had done as much storytelling as we thought we could do credibly with not having them together. So the characters either had to go their separate ways or get together,” he says. “We thought there was a lot of fun to be had mining their relationship once they were together because no relationship goes smoothly, and they’re fundamentally different people.”

Marlowe points to classic romances — like those featured in The Thin Man (1934), The Philadelphia Story, and Adam’s Rib (1949) — as his inspiration and the best reference point for the “romantic-comedy fun” that’s to come. “We think these guys can support and sustain that for a long time as we continue to evolve their relationship and both of them as characters,” he says. “We are absolutely convinced we’re going to have a lot of fun in the next several years with these guys as we see what that relationship looks like, because it ain’t necessarily going to be smooth sailing. I think the bumps that come along the way are going to be really fun and funny.”

In fact, he adds, that’s one of the main reasons the show decided to take the plunge now: fun. After a season that has had more than its fair share of angst and dark moments, he wanted a chance to “recommit” to the fundamentals of the show. “What we’re hoping is that getting over this hump of will-they-won’t-they will help us get back to some of the fun stuff we were able to do in the first couple of seasons — her grabbing his nose or grabbing his ear — and the back and forth. Them getting together will allow for that,” he says. “But the sexual tension of the relationship, I don’t know if that goes away when they’re together as long as you handle it well.”

But what of the rest of the story? Beckett’s resignation from the force? Esposito and Ryan’s falling out? And the big threat that we now know looms over Kate? “We’ll put the pieces back together in an interesting way,” he promises. “It gives us a natural launch point for next season — with both relationship stuff and [other] stakes that we’re going to enjoy playing with at the beginning of next year before we pick up all the pieces.”

Above all, he says, “We felt like it was time to get the characters together.” And we have to agree.

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Are you still with us Castle fans?

After four seasons of will-they-won’t-they romantic tension, the ABC drama’s Season 4 finale seemingly brought mystery writer Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion) together with his muse, Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). But getting there was no easy task.

After a murder investigation put Beckett on the trail of Cole Maddox (Tahmoh Penikett), the man who shot her in last year’s season-ender, Castle had to reveal the secret he’s been keeping all season: He’s been investigating Beckett’s mother’s murder covertly in order to keep her away from the case and therefore keep her alive. The betrayal hits Beckett hard, and it seems the duo’s partnership is finished.

But after Beckett nearly dies during another run-in with Maddox — and after her recklessness causes her to resign from the police force — Beckett runs to Castle for a passionate make-out session before ultimately leading him to the bedroom.

So, did Castle and Beckett actually get it on? And what does this mean for their future? We took all our questions to creator Andrew W. Marlowe, who assures us, this is only the beginning.

So, you finally put Castle and Beckett together. Why was now the time?
Andrew W. Marlowe: Ultimately, you get to a fork in the road. If we kept them apart any longer, say another season — after what Castle had put on the table at the end of last season — in my mind, that would have been the death of the series. Then, we would have just been being artificial. They would have become brother and sister, and then we’re just ignoring everything that had happened. There comes a point where you have to confront it. … We wanted to get the point where we resolved it and made a promise for next season that these two are going to have to be dealing with their feelings for one another.

Of course, we didn’t see whatever was about to happen in that bedroom. Are you planning to pull a fast one next season?
Marlowe: I have no intention of pulling the rug out from the audience. I think that when that scene ends, everybody is clear on what’s about to happen. We don’t need to see it, but we know it’s going to happen.

So to be clear, there won’t be an urgent phone call that Castle’s mom has been in an accident or something like that?
Marlowe: No. I think we need to get to the other side of the storytelling. I think we’ve played the interruptions as much as we possibly can. And I think we’re really interested to see what’s going to happen with these two. What does that relationship look like? This is going to allow us to re-embrace some of the fun, because relationships are tricky things and they don’t always go the way you want them to.

Are you saying this season didn’t have as much “fun” as you would like?
Marlowe: Yeah a little bit. We had a lot of fun this season, but Castle and Beckett were each keeping secrets from one another and weren’t dealing with each other completely honestly. I think some of the angst of this season — we paid for some of that with some element of fun. That by no means is me saying the fun left the show, but we had to spend a little bit of that capital in a different place. Getting to the other side of this allows us to bring … [back] the back-and-forth between them and the physical comedy. It allows us to recommit to the fundamental values of what the show is.

So you want to see them in a more playful place with one another?
Marlowe: [Seeing them] figuring out their rhythms with one another is going to be fun for the audience to watch. In no way do we think this is going to end the fun and the tension between Castle and Beckett because the question is now going to become: Where does this relationship go and how does it affect their ability to work together?

Would you call them a couple at this point or is it not that defined?
Marlowe: I think those are all the questions the characters are going to be asking themselves, and that’s going to be part of the fun. When they wake up the next morning, are both of them still in the same place? And Beckett’s actually resigned from the force. So, what is she going to do with her life now? There’s all sorts of stuff to jump into next season.

Why does Beckett resign in that moment?
Marlowe: It’s a reflection on what she’s been doing with her life and how she’s defined herself. This echoes back to a conversation she had with her therapist in “Kill Shot” where she says, “I want to move past this.” [Does] letting go of her mother’s murder allow her to choose something else in life, where she’s not as driven to be a cop? Or will things happen that will force her to recommit to it?

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Castle and Beckett: It’s been the consummation devoutly to be wished.

So after four seasons of red-hot chemistry on Castle, did the crime novelist and his muse finally get their Nikki Heat on?

Read on for a postmortem of tonight’s game-changing finale with Castle showrunner Andrew Marlowe…and scoop on what’s to come in season five.

Spoiler Alert (Do we really have to say it?): Don’t read if you haven’t watched yet!

Aw. The stars aligned at last for Castle [Nathan Fillion] and Beckett [Stana Katic], one of TV’s most dynamic duos and now a certified couple!

“All I want is you,” Beckett (Rebecca!) told Castle, abandoning both her obsession with her mother’s murder and her inhibitions before a passionate scene that would’ve made Nikki Heat proud.

But the crimefighters’ happy ending didn’t come easily.

“The finale is an emotional ride,” said Marlowe, who lit “a lot of fireworks” before the ultimate payoff.

“They had to confront the betrayals, they had to confront the secrets and they had to confront how they feel about each other,” Marlowe notes. “I think that the payment was a little bit of fun in getting to the other side of all this ‘angsty’ stuff and help reinject this show with an element of fun.”

Most of all, Marlowe hopes the audience is “very satisfied” by the outcome.

After four years of foreplay, how could it not be? As Marlowe candidly admits, “We felt like we had run everything we could possibly get out of the two of them not being together and that we were dangerously close to having to repeat ourselves or step backwards.”

So what’s next? “No means do we feel like this is the end of our storytelling,” Marlowe insists. “Once people get together, there are plenty of fun challenges, relationship obstacles to overcome [and] really uncomfortable, great, wonderful, crazy, challenging moments that they’re going to have to face.”

One of their biggest challenges, of course, is the threat to Beckett’s life—in the handsome form of Tahmoh Penikett, revealed as her attempted assassin and hatchet man for the conspirators.

While Castle and Beckett came together, “We blow Ryan [Seamus Dever] and Esposito [Jon Huertas] apart in this episode,” says Marlowe. “Beckett has resigned from the force, so there is a lot of picking up the pieces that we’re going to have to do next year that we’re really excited about.”

At least Castle’s daughter, Alexis (Molly Quinn), won’t be leaving town—she chose nearby Columbia over Stanford and Oxford.

“A lot of it really isn’t about changing the show,” Marlowe told us. “It’s about re-embracing the fundamental values of the show, realigning it and growing the characters so we can take a really fresh approach next season.”

Were you satisfied with tonight’s finale? What do you think the future holds for Castle and Beckett? Sound off in the comments!

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