Magnum P.I. is ending for the second time shortly after the brand new 12 months begins — a two-hour occasion is ready for January 3 — however not less than this time, we’ve had time to arrange. (NBC picked it up for 20 extra episodes following CBS‘ cancellation.)
“Possibly we didn’t know the present was going to finish, however we had an inkling, so everyone wrapped it up actually properly,” Zachary Knighton (Rick) advised TV Insider. “I feel the followers are going to be actually enthusiastic about it.”
Perdita Weeks (Higgins) teased one thing “very, very shocking… not altogether good, nevertheless it’ll all be alright ultimately.” She’s additionally stated that the sequence ends in a “very candy” method for Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins and hopes “individuals can be content material with it as a result of it’s the finish.”
For Weeks, the present ending and saying goodbye to Higgins (“She was my life for 5 years”) is “bittersweet. I’m actually glad that it ended the place it did, to be trustworthy. As soon as Magnum and Higgins have been collectively, I feel there was a type of shelf life. I don’t assume we needed to see them get divorced. Kitchen sink drama. It simply wouldn’t have had fairly the attract. And I advised [showrunner] Eric [Guggenheim] this, while it is extremely unhappy to say goodbye to it, clearly, and everybody, I feel it’s a pleasant place that we ended up.”
Knighton is unhappy in regards to the finish, and he acknowledged the drama’s “underdog” standing. “We type of got here out in Hawaii 5-0’s shadow, after which covid occurred and we acquired reduce down to fifteen or 16 episodes after which we acquired canceled after which saved by NBC. We’ve simply been getting thrown round. … It’s time, and I’m excited for what’s subsequent.”
Magnum P.I. has been a part of crossovers prior to now, so it’s doable that these characters may present up sooner or later on one other present. The place would Weeks and Knighton wish to see Higgins and Rick once more? “I see Higgins in Paris someplace,” she stated.
“If Stephen Hill went off and pitched a present about TC and TC was the lead of the present and it was all about his adventures, I’d deliver Rick again to do one thing like that,” Knighton laughed. “However in any other case, I feel, Ricky’s going to get buried with this one.”
Wanting forward, he’s concerned with any roles that “communicate” to him. “I’ve been all around the map. I’ve achieved every kind of loopy motion pictures and tv exhibits and sci-fi, horror, comedy, drama, motion, thriller,” he identified. “I are typically like a location man, too. If there’s one thing fascinating and it’s taking place in Hawaii, you higher imagine I took it, and that’s what I did with this.”
Watch the video above to see Weeks discuss her favourite Magnum-Higgins scene to movie — that we’ve seen and nonetheless to return. And what’s to not come? A solution to the one burning query she needed answered: “The place is Higgins tattoo? … That’ll need to be an Easter egg for years to return.”
Magnum P.I., 2-Hour Sequence Finale, Wednesday, January 3, 2024, 9/8c, NBC
