Psych-O’s rejoice! Psych season 8 is going to be a little bit longer than planned. USA Network ordered two more episodes earlier today, bumping the episode count from a planned eight, to 10.
While this may fuel the rumours that season 8 will be the last season for the longest-running original program on USA, we’re just happy to be getting a little more Shawn and Gus screen time.
Also interesting to note here is the fact that one episode will be selected by the fans. You can vote from three pre-selected options on USA Network’s website now. They provide a brief synopsis of each episode to give you a general idea of the plots.
James Roday is slated to direct one option – “Dream Therapy,” which would mark his eighth return to the director’s chair. Voting is open until July 12, so you have about three weeks to choose which episode you want to see make it to air, and the chosen storyline will be revealed at Comic-Con on July 18.
Psych has always been about pleasing and connecting with the viewers and fan base. From the highly interactive 100th episode last season, where viewers live-selected the murderer in a Clue-themed episode, to taking the plunge and creating a two-hour musical spectacular that will air sometime this December.
Psych season 8 has yet to receive an official premiere date, but we could expect it to be sometime early 2014.
So, which one are you going to vote for?
“Food Truck”
When the well-known owner of a beloved Santa Barbara food truck is mysteriously murdered, Shawn and Gus, fans of delicious flavor, are determined to solve the crime as only they can. They go undercover as proprietors of the PSYCH Naptime Food Truck, and soon discover that the high-profit world of Santa Barbara’s mobile food business is cutthroat, insular and a place of many secrets – many of them worth killing for.
“Telethon”
In a classic “How-dunnit” case with a PSYCH twist, Shawn and Gus investigate a murder that Shawn is convinced was committed by the beloved host of Santa Barbara’s annual Children’s Hospital Telethon. There’s only one problem – the host was seen by hundreds of thousands of people on live television during the exact time the murder occurred elsewhere. Can Shawn steal the show, poke a hole in this rock-solid alibi, and prove the host did it?
Or “Dream Therapy”
From acclaimed director, James Roday (“Mr. Yin Presents…”, “Heeeeere’s Lassie”), comes a new vision in terror: “Nightmare on State Street”! An exhausted Gus enters dream therapy to understand the cause of his recent night terrors and nothing is ever again what it seems… In dreams, no one can hear you scream… no matter how high pitched and lady-like you sound.