Video – Four Clips From the Castle Season 2 Premiere "Deep In Death"

Castle.  The show that proves that network executives have a heart when it comes to good shows.  Not that Castle was a ratings failure, by any stretch, but it spent much of its season on the death watch.  Luckily, ABC decided they were going to give this mix of cheeky grit and hard boiled noir another season to become the hit we all know it is destined to become.

With this peek at the second season premiere, I'm already confident that Castle's audience is going to grow and grow. First of all, Castle is extending a geek wink to the true fans of hard-boiled fiction by giving Stephen J. Cannell and Michael Connelly Guest Star nods in the episode.  Next, we get treated to an impromptu Stana Katic strip down.  Of course there is tons of Nathan Fillion's multi-faceted lug of a writer-slash-amateur-detective Richard Castle.

Seriously, Castle is one of the bubble shows that you need to check out if you skipped it last season. It is very deserving of live viewing.

"Deep in Death" — When the new season begins, Castle (Nathan Fillion) is wrestling with how to repair his relationship with Beckett (Stana Katic), while struggling to finish his soon-to-be-published bestseller, Heat Wave. But circumstances force the pair back together to investigate the mysterious murder of a man found dead, tangled in the limbs of a tree. The Season Two premiere of "Castle" airs MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 (10:01-11:00 p.m. ET) on ABC. Authors Stephen J. Cannell and Michael Connelly guest star as themselves in the episode.