Eureka - Collider: Colin Ferguson & Neil Grayston Interview

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COLLIDER: Colin Ferguson and Neil Grayston Talk the Final Season of EUREKA, LIKE FATHER, WAREHOUSE 13 and More


by Christina Radish
April 28th, 2012


The fifth and final season of the popular series Eureka, currently airing on Monday nights on Syfy, kicked off by letting viewers know where the missing Astraeus and her flight crew has been and reinforcing the fact that things are rarely ever quite what they seem in this small, quirky town. After premiering as Syfy’s most popular scripted series in 2006, it has gone on to generate numerous accolades and a devoted following that loves the secret community of geniuses who conduct top-secret research in a place where anything imaginable can happen. The series stars Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Allison Blake), Joe Morton (Henry Deacon), Erica Cerra (Jo Lupo), Neil Grayston (Douglas Fargo) and Niall Matter (Zane Donovan).

While at the recent NBC Universal summer press day, co-stars Colin Ferguson and Neil Grayston talked to Collider for this exclusive interview about what they thought of the final season, how they never could have imagined where the story and characters would end up, what the final day on set was like, the mementos they were able to keep, what they’ll miss most about their characters, and which Eureka gadgets they wished they had in their own life. Ferguson also talked about his new pilot, Like Father, that was created by Bill Lawrence (Cougar Town, Scrubs), and Grayston talked about the possibility of Fargo returning to Warehouse 13, as well as doing a sci-fi movie with Greg Grunberg (Heroes), called End of the World, about two video store employees who have to save the world with their knowledge of disaster movies...



... Collider: Looking back to when you signed on to do this show, could you ever have imagined that things would end up where they do?

FERGUSON: "No. When we signed on to do this show, and over the first year, we were told, in no uncertain terms, “This is a drama. Don’t be funny. Don’t put that in. And, there are two things the show will never do: We will never deal with space and we will never deal with aliens.” We didn’t deal with aliens, but we definitely dealt with space and we’re definitely a comedy. So, to see where it is now, as per where it started, no, I never thought it would go like this. And, I never thought I would be as happy with it, as I am with this particular last season. This last season is the best thing that we’ve done, and I’m grateful to have been able to play a part in helping it get on."

GRAYSTON: "On a personal level, I was only signed on to be in seven episodes, as the assistant. If you would have told me, when we started out, that I would be head of Global Dynamics, I wouldn’t have assumed that. I would have maybe hoped, in some weird alternate future, that that would happen, but it ended up actually happening. That was cool..."


Eureka season five airs Monday at 9/8C on Syfy.