Revenge is axed after four seasons - but will it serve up a spin-off?

ABC is set to air the season finale of the series starring Emily VanCamp in May, which will mark the end of the whole show’s run, its executive producer Sunil Nayar has told Entertainment Weekly.

He revealed: “We can officially tell our fans that this will be the end of the story. We’ve been talking to the network and we all just wanted to make sure that we felt very confident. Now that everybody has seen the finale — which is fabulous — everybody understands that as much as we all adore the show, it has hit exactly the mark it needed to to end.”

The programme has suffered a slump in viewers after its successful first series, but Sunil said that to end it now would be better creatively.

He said: “We certainly had a pitch of how the show could go on, but this is why I feel so grateful to the studio and the network because they also erred on the side of creativity.

“The show is still popular, it’s loved worldwide. I can see why all the arguments from even an economic standpoint to maybe keep it going, but at the end of the day — kind of like they had with Lost — they support creativity above all. They really got the sense with us as their partners that we all came up with a great way to end these stories.”

He said of the finale: “There’s a tiny little cliffhanger in the series finale. We don’t want people to get weary of the stories we’re telling, so we felt like they deserve an ending to this novel. I really feel like the last couple of chapters are worthy of the first many.

“There are epic emotional moments in the finale. There are really shocking things that happen in the finale. It’s a tricky thing because the fans are such passionate lovers of the show and we really want to give them what they want, but the hard part about a finale in a show like this is you want to give them some of what they want, some of what they don’t know they want yet and some of what they never expected, and it needs to be a perfect mix of all those things. I think they’re going to be extremely satisfied.”

However, it may not all be bad news for Revenge fans as there are rumours that a new show called Kingmakers is a spin-off of the series.

Sunil said: “There isn’t a whole lot that I can say to that except that Kingmakers is fabulous. I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but boy did I love the scripts.

“It’s got the blood and passion of Revenge hardwired into what the show is, but at the moment, it is not a spin-off in that there’s no characters from this show that are, at the moment, planning on being in that show, but never say never.”