Patricia Arquette, who stars as psychic Allison DuBois on NBC’s hit series Medium, told SCI FI Wire that she’s been extremely pleased with the show’s current season, its fourth, but isn’t sure if it will return for a fifth year. (NBC will unveil its fall lineup on April 2.)
“Well, how do I feel like it’s going?” Arquette said, paraphrasing a question asked of her during a conference call last week with journalists. “I feel like we’ve really had a lot of good luck with having Anjelica Huston come in and having Rosanna [Arquette] come in, and now Kelly Preston is going to come in. … So we’ve been really lucky in that way, having a lot of great guest stars, and that’s been really exciting.”
But Arquette added that it’s hard for her to assess how a season is going while she’s in the midst of it. “Usually, I watch the whole season at the end,” she said. “I don’t actually watch it every week, because we’re usually working when it’s on. And then the idea of, you know, making my children watch [and] wait around while I’m watching myself is too strange of an idea for me.”
The current season featured Huston as a troubled investigator who comes to Allison’s aid while she and her husband, Joe (Jake Weber), are struggling with unemployment and the revelation last season that Allison was working as a psychic for the Phoenix district attorney.
Will the show come back for a fifth year? “I don’t know if there’ll be a next season,” Arquette said. “I know we do have very devoted fans and that we’re grateful for that. … I don’t know what’ll happen, you know?”
But Arquette said she’s willing to return if the show is picked up. “Yeah, I would like to come back,” she said.
Medium airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) –Ian Spelling
