'The Mentalist' Season 6 Spoilers: 'Blue Bird Inn' Writen As Series Finale? Warner Bros Looking For New Network [VIDEO]
The Mentalist is approaching finale season with no word on a season 7 renewal from, and Warner Bros. is apparently looking for a new network to pick up the crime drama.
The CBS series hit the reset button when it concluded the six-season Red John mystery last Fall, and The Mentalist's home network is waiting until the eleventh hour to announce the show's fate.
While the cast and crew have told fans that there will be no news until mid-may LINK, Deadline has reported that Warner Bros. is already looking to USA, TNT, and ABC as possible outlets for the Simon Baker-led series if CBS doesn't pan out.
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If The Mentalist does come to a sudden end, series creator Bruno Heller has taken steps to ensure that there will be no lose ends to Patrick Jane's (Baker) story.
"It will be a very pleasing and satisfying series finale if that's what happens and if not its a very pleasing and satisfying precursor to a new season," Bruno told Entertainment Weekly in reference to the upcoming season 6 finale. "Obviously that's the goal. Killing off Red John ... turned out to be a brilliant idea and it loosened everybody up and gave us fresh legs and blue skies."
Titled "Blue Bird Inn," the season finale will air on May 18.
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The Mentalist airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. Click the video below to see a preview of the series' next episode, "Brown Eyed Girls."
