• Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 9, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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  • Summary: Meet Richard Castle: he's a successful murder-mystery writer who has just killed off his main character. However, it seems one of his fans liked his books just a bit too much when a copycat murderer starts running around killing people as described in Castle's books.

    After being questione
    d by the police Richard joins forces with Detective Kate Beckett to solve this case. The two become partners begin working together to solve other murders in New York along with other detectives Javier Esposito, Kevin Ryan and Captain Roy Montgomery. They also work with medical examiner Lanie Parish. Richard's family includes his mother Martha Rodgers, who was a broadway diva and his daughter Alexis.

    The show is produced by ABC Studios and Beacon Television. ABC is set debut the show in March 9, 2009. Castle was given a 10 episode order for the first season.
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  • Genre(s): Drama, Suspense
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  1. Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), despite already completing his new novel, continues to team up with Detective Kate Beckett (Stan Katic) looking for 'inspiration' for future mystery stories.

    If anything this second season is an improvement on the first. As with the first season it is the fantastic chemistry between Fillion and Katic (easily the most attractive cop in TV history), rather than the crimes themselves, that is the real draw. Their will they/won't they relationship is reminiscent of Moonlighting at its best both in terms of drama and level of humour. More time is also given to Detectives Ryan and Esposito, at the expense of the rather dull scenes with Castle's daughter, and by the end of the season they really became integral to the show.

    Any followers of Nathan Fillion will probably already be a fan of this show, for anyone else it is the perfect antidote to the endless procedural cop shows clogging up the airwaves rarely failing to provide entertaining viewing.
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