It finally happened! Castle has been officially renewed for season five! Thank you television gods and ABC for making all of us Castle fans extremely happy! I can’t wait to see what Marlowe and the crew have in store for us next season!

ABC just made its “no-brainer” renewals, picking up its strongest scripted series. That includes freshmen Once Upon A Time, Suburgatory and Revenge, comedies Modern Family and The Middle and dramas Grey’s Anatomy and Castle. (The renewal for Grey’s comes after the main cast signed new deals.) Surprisingly not on the list is sophomore comedy Happy Endings, but I hear that deal is closing, so the show will be back. Also expected to return are two freshman comedy series that didn’t make the first cut, Last Man Standing and Don’t Trust The B—-. Looking good is Shonda Rhimes’ midseason drama Scandal. Talks are still ongoing on a potential 13-episode pickup of Grey’s spinoff Private Practice, which logged underwhelming ratings this week after a promising start on Tuesday. The future of GCB and Body of Proof is unclear, with both having a shot depending on ABC’s new drama series choices. And of course, fellow bubble ABC series Cougar Town just found a new home at TBS. ABC is yet to make its unscripted renewals, which will likely come tomorrow, with Dancing With The Stars, The Bachelor/Bachelorette and Shark Tank certain to get the nod.

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As we already announced Castle is headed to syndication this fall on broadcast stations on weekend, but cable network TNT will get a head start starting this summer by airing reruns of seasons one and two! TNT aired a one day marathon in September to get everyone ready for the fourth season on ABC, but now TNT will begin airing the series on a regular basis! Starting Thursday, June 7, 2012, TNT will air repeats of Castle every Thursday night back-to-back at 9pm and 10pm starting with the very first episode! Enjoy it from the beginning, especially if you’ve never seen it! Reruns of The Mentalist will lead-in from 3-9pm. The drama will join other popular reruns on the network such as Law & Order, The Mentalist, Bones, CSI NY, Cold Case, Charmed, Supernatural, Las Vegas, Angel, and Smallville. Castle is of course a comedic/romantic crime drama starring Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Desperate Housewives) and Stana Katic (Quantum of Solace, TNT’s The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice). Also as part of TNT’s TV Everywhere rollout, Castle will also be available for online viewing through mobile phones, tablets, computers and other devices starting this June. TNT will be able to air more than just the first two seasons I believe by Fall 2013. So catch seasons one and two this June on TNT and then weekend broadcast syndication this fall, so check your local listings for times and station as we get closer to the fall!

The series is currently in its fourth season on ABC and the season will wrap up on May 7 with its fourth season finale. The series will be entering its fifth season on ABC this fall. Stay tuned for more information on Castleon TNT and in broadcast syndication!

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Warning: Spoilers! Do not read ahead, if you wish to remain spoiler free!

If you’ve been following TVLine’s Ask Ausiello column – and really, why wouldn’t you be? – you’ve gotten clues about the Castlecharacter who will be turning up at season’s end. And thus far you’ve heard that it’s someone with ties to a former regular.

Well, clues shmues — TVLine can now confirm that the person set to resurface in the May 7 season finale is the late Captain Montgomery’s wife, Evelyn (to again be played by Judith Scott).

What returns the widow to Beckett & Co.’s orbit? Here is what series creator Andrew W. Marlowe revealed about the season-ending encore. “Events force us to wonder whether the case we’re working on might be linked to the Beckett’s mother murder case” – aka the conspiracy-led cover-up that Monty was rather complicit in, and ultimately died for. “We’ll be picking at that scab again.”

Also on tap for Castle‘s Season 4 capper: Battlestar Galactica alum Tahmoh Penikett will begin a multi-episode run as a “cold, calculated” type with a military background. Hmmm… wonder how he is with a rifle?

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Castle‘s season finale just got a lot more interesting.

Sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse vet Tahmoh Penikett has landed a potentially recurring gig on the ABC drama that kicks off in the emotional May 7 finale.

His role, not surprisingly, is shrouded in secrecy.

What we can tell you is that his character’s name is Cole Maddox and he’s cold, calculated and has a military background.

In other words, he’s bad news.

Penikett’s recent TV credits include guest stints on Haven, Fairly Legal and The Killing.

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It’s not exactly official news yet, but we’re getting closer to hearing about a season five renewal for Castle!

ABC is on the verge of issuing formal early renewals to nearly a dozen scripted series, including freshman hits Once Upon a Time and Revenge and established players Modern Family and Grey’s Anatomy.

Although an ABC rep declined to comment, TVLine has learned that the network’s prelim pickup list also includes Castle, Suburgatory, Last Man Standing, Happy Endings, The Middle.

Cougar Town and Private Practice, meanwhile, remain question marks. Ditto midseason entries GCB and Missing. (The fate of Private Practice, ironically, likely hinges on the ratings performance of another Shonda Rhimes drama, the soon-to-debut Scandal.)

Considered long-shots for next fall are Body of Proof, Pan Am and (the possibly Netflix-bound) The River, although a final decision probably won’t come down on those fence-riders until the May upfronts. If cut loose, they would join the already-axed Charlie’s Angels, Man Up and Work It.

The Grey’s renewal comes as ABC continues to negotiate new deals with original castmembers Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Justin Chambers, Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson.

For the latest pickups/cancellations, bookmark TVLine’s 2012 Renewal Scorecard!

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Cryptozoic Entertainment is adding to its licensed properties with the announcement at Toy Fair that it has acquired a license for ABC’s Castle and will be producing a board game and trading card set based on the hit show.

Although the specific game play mechanics are yet to be revealed, a spokesperson for Cryptozoic told ICv2 that the Castle:  Murder Mystery Board Game will “be a mystery game following the basic structure of the show.”  The game, for one to six players ages 15+, will take 30-45 minutes to play.

The Castle Season 1-2 Trading Cards will contain all of Cryptozoic’s usual elements, including show art and character images, plus autograph cards, wardrobe cards, and more.

Both the Castle Board Game and the Castle Trading Cards will be released fall of 2012.

This is great news for Castle!

In its latest high-profile acquisition, TNT has secured the exclusive off-network cable rights to the hit series, Castle, from Disney-ABC Domestic Television.  Castle, which just completed its third highly rated season on ABC, is a crime drama starring Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Desperate Housewives) and Stana Katic (Quantum of Solace, TNT’s The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice). Castle (seasons 1 & 2) will begin airing on TNT in summer 2012. As part of TNT’s TV Everywhere rollout, Castle will also be available for online viewing through mobile phones, tablets, computers and other devices.

“With the addition of Castle, TNT continues to build a collection of hit shows that will perfectly complement our high-profile original series,” said Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

TNT’s deal for Castle follows on the heels of the network’s recent acquisition of Hawaii Five-0, which will join the TNT lineup in 2014. TNT has also landed the popular series The Mentalist, which recently enjoyed a strong opening in its Wednesday 7-9 p.m. timeslot.

Castle centers on the life of Richard Castle (Fillion) – a famous mystery novelist and divorced father raising his teenage daughter, while being kept grounded by his Broadway diva mother. He was creatively blocked until the NYPD questioned him in connection with a series of murders staged to imitate crime scenes from his books. Castle found inspiration in NYPD Detective Kate Beckett, a bright and aggressive homicide detective with a fascination for odd and offbeat cases stemming from the years-old unsolved murder of her own mother. Though they instantly clashed, sparks of another sort began to fly, leading both to danger and a hint of romance as Castle stepped in to help find the copycat killer. Once that initial case was solved, Castle and Beckett continued to investigate strange homicides in New York, combining Castle’s writer intuition and Beckett’s creative detective work.

Currently entering its fourth season, the series stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, Stana Katic as Detective Kate Beckett, Tamala Jones as Medical Examiner Lanie Parish, Jon Huertas as NYPD Detective Javier Esposito, Seamus Dever as NYPD Detective Kevin Ryan and Molly Quinn as Alexis Castle, with Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers.

Castle is produced by ABC Studios. Andrew Marlowe is the show’s creator/executive producer, along with executive producers Rob Bowman, David Amann, Laurie Zaks and Armyan Bernstein.

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Episode 3×23 of Castle will be called “Pretty Dead” and will involve a murder at a beauty pageant.

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Warning: There are some spoilers included in the bottom half of this article. Read at your own risk.

Looks like there will be a lot going on in the upcoming Castle episode “To Love and Die in LA”. TV Guide has just revealed who will be playing Detectives Ryan and Esposito counterparts in the Heat Wave movie. Ryan Deal (left) and Justice Gamble (right) will play Detectives Raley and Ochoa in the fictional big screen. While we will not see Natalie Rhodes in this episode – a total shame, if you ask me – we will finally get to meet Detective Heat’s partners.I am curious about who is playing Rook, though, and why all this mystery surrounding him. This LA episode would be an excellent opportunity to meet him. Oh well, maybe that means that there is yet another LA trip to be made next season for the Heat Wave premiere.

In other casting news, D. B. Sweeney will also guest star on this already highly anticipated episode. He will play LA Detective Kyle Seeger, who works for the Robbery Department. Apparently, he is going to question Castle and Beckett because – guess what – those two are going rogue. Again.They just never learn, do they?

One last piece of info on the case they are working on: it was Beckett’s former partner that was murdered. Now add that to the fact that the vic was also her mentor; it’s looking more and more that this is Mike Royce, which would explain Beckett’s sudden urge to do a little investigating of her own.

For someone who is supposedly a by-the-book detective, Kate Beckett certainly likes to go rogue a lot, doesn’t she? I guess Castle really is rubbing off on her.

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The season 3 finale of Castle will air on Monday, May 16th, at 10:00 PM on ABC. The only information I have heard so far about this episode is that it will be called Knockout. Also, as previously mentioned by Andrew Marlowe, it is supposed to revist Beckett’s mom’s murder again, and possibly even close the case. I don’t know for sure about either of these things, but I will keep you all posted on any updates. I can’t believe this season is almost over. It’s been such a good one!