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By Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW

Attention, Gilmore Girls fans wondering whether Lorelai and Luke will wed: There are bigger behind-the-scenes worries. While the cast is signed through next year, creator/writer/director/culture mistress extraordinaire Amy Sherman-Palladino has yet to renegotiate with The CW (that impending WB/UPN mash-up). The series is ''still doing strong numbers...and family neuroses really never end,'' she tells EW. ''Why make it the last year?''

EW So who's saying it might be?

ASP The studio is mentioning it [perhaps] being the last year.

EW Are you signed through year 7?

ASP No...as of April, I am apparently working at the Coffee Bean at the Beverly Center, making vanilla blendeds for girls going to Bebe.

EW Could the studio pull a West Wing and continue the show without you?

ASP Oh, sure — I've got some nice purses, but the network owns the show.

EW Corporate relations haven't been rosy lately?

ASP I joked to them, ''I get the feeling if I came to you now with the idea of Gilmore, you'd turn me down....'' A lot of [their successful] shows have been higher concept: Smallville, Supernatural. They're really into Aquaman now. None of my characters can breathe underwater.

EW What happened to your WB project, a Manhattan comedy-drama you described as ''Nick and Nora Charles with kids''?

ASP Not happening...but [exec producer and husband] Dan and I will try to sell it somewhere. We didn't know The WB was disappearing. [Network honchos] Les Moonves and Bruce Rosenblum should be running the intelligence service in Washington [for having kept the merger] under wraps.

EW What will we see in Gilmore's finale this year?

ASP We've got an intense, big-bam cliff-hanger... [with] some wonderful indie bands.... I've also optioned books for movies, and there's other TV shows I want to pitch.... [But] I would be surprised, absolutely stunned, if next year were the last.