Fans of cancelled CW drama The Secret Circle have launched a new website as part of their campaign to save the supernatural series.

The CW surprised many over the weekend when it renewed Maggie Q series Nikita for a third season and axed The Secret Circle. The outcome was starkly different to what many had predicted; cancellation for Nikita and renewal for The Secret Circle. After all the witchy drama, starring Thomas Dekker and Gale Harold, had posted solid ratings throughout its season and its pairing up The Vampire Diaries on Thursday evenings made perfect sense.

The CW’s decision to cancel The Secret Circle certainly didn’t go down well with its many fans who almost immediately leapt into action. The fans set up various petitions and Facebook groups to save the series. Many fans also posted many comments on ATV Today‘s story on the cancellation voicing their anger at the decision.

Now the fans have launched a website in order to co-ordinate the campaign to save the series and keep everyone updated. The website has links to the several petitions that have already launched and also info on how to contact broadcaster The CW.

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The Secret Circle EP Andrew Miller didn’t know his show was being canceled this morning when he phoned EW to talk about last night’s season finale and tease where a second season would take the witches of Chance Harbor if they were granted one. Below, you can read where the characters were headed. I’m most sad for the loss of the opportunity to see Gale Harold (Charles) go as dark as I’d hoped he be after seeing the pilot. In the finale, Charles redeemed himself by magically luring the six demons inside Eben into his body so that Dawn could save Faye, Melissa, and Jake from burning at the stake (okay, a pole on the old ship). “So now he’s in this comatose state with six demons inside him that can’t get out, in the hopes that soon — let’s say next season — there’s a way to extract those demons,” Miller said. “Who Charles is when that happens remains to be seen. That’s what we wanted to set up for next season: Can the people who love him help him in a way that brings him back to who he was, or is he gonna be someone completely different? He’s come a long way this year, starting off as a completely evil son of a bitch [when he killed Cassie's mother] and ending up making a self-sacrifice that was pretty stunning. If there is a next season, I suspect that idea of self-sacrifice won’t be uppermost on his mind anymore. He might revert back a little.”

That was what I’d been waiting for — Gale Harold unleashed. “You and me. We were so desperate to show consequences and responsibility, and for him to be an out-and-out bad guy, and a dad, and a guy who brought Cassie, which was so hard to do thematically. It may have taken a long time, but it feels like we can reset his character a little bit more,” Miller said. “He’s so good at being bad, we just needed to give him enough reason to go that way, and I feel like having six demons inside of him and doing what he did to save everyone is enough of a reason to go back. I’m hopeful for a very dark, cool, dangerous as hell Charles next season.” And maybe he could possibly have some sex, I said. “Yes,” Miller said, laughing. “If you’re gonna be dark and dangerous, why not have sex? What’s the fun otherwise?”

Miller admitted one of the struggles of the first season was finding the balance between the parents and the kids on the show. “Sometimes it felt like we were going too far one way or the other. But it was so important to keep this wall up between them because we just didn’t want scenes of the kids sitting around saying, ‘Hey, how do you do this?’ The parents would be doing everything for them, and no teenager wants that in their life. So we had to keep them apart, but in doing so, we weren’t able to utilize Gale Harold and Natasha Henstridge both the way we would have liked.” That would have been different next year, he said.

“Season 1 was all about empowerment. Next would be now that they’re empowered, what are they gonna do with it? That feels like a really fun season of television,” he said.

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I’ve added three clips from the last Secret Circle episode, Family.

The CW has opted not to renew The Secret Circle for a second season. While I enjoyed TSC, I watched it solely for Gale Harold. But I have to say I was impressed with the dedicated the fans had to the show and the desire to see it come back in the fall. With any luck, we won’t have to wait terribly long to see Gale on television again.

I’ve added screencaptures of last night’s episode of The Secret Circle. The show has not yet received any news regarding renewal, but we’ll keep you updated.

- The Secret Circle – 2011-2012 > Screencaptures > Season One > 1×22 – Family

This time last year, critics were buzzing about the very first scene of “The Secret Circle” pilot.

Charles (Gale Harold) murdered his high school friend Amelia in order to get her daughter, Cassie (Britt Robertson) back to their hometown, where she was needed to complete a circle of magic that would turn deadly more than once over the course of the first season.

We’ve seen Charles display varying degrees of weakness and strength this year, and now, as tensions in town reach a climactic finish, he’ll have to examine his choices and, perhaps, atone for them.
Tonight’s Season 1 finale, titled “Family,” will force Charles into a potentially deadly decision. The most important relationship in his life, with his daughter Diana (Shelley Hennig), is crumbling. He’s learned that she may not be his biological daughter, and she’s discovered the truth about Charles’ potential for darkness.

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The season finale of The Secret Circle airs TONIGHT at 9pm on The CW. There has been no renewal announcement for the show yet, so tonight is rather important in terms of ratings. It’s also said to have plenty of Gale, so if that’s not reason enough to watch, I don’t know what is!