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https://variety.com/2020/tv/awards/w...es-1203510971/

In the ongoing saga of whether HBO’s “Watchmen” will continue after its initial, acclaimed season late last year, the pay cable network announced on Friday that it is reclassifying the show from a drama series to a limited series, including for “any possible future installments.”

The move aligns HBO’s awards season campaign for “Watchmen” with how executive producer and showrunner Damon Lindelof had talked about the show from the start, as a self-contained story with a beginning, middle and end, rather than an ongoing story told over multiple seasons.

But the reclassification also underlines the uncertainty of whether “Watchmen” will return at all, especially given HBO’s equivocating on “possible” new iterations of the show.