Unfortunately, yes. About a year ago, the USA Network announced that it would not be renewing "Covert Affairs" for a sixth season.

That was a pretty tough pill for fans to swallow, since the fifth season ended on a pretty serious double-cliffhanger: Lead character Annie (Piper Perabo, "The Prestige," 2006) was about to decide both whether to marry Ryan (Nic Bishop, "Home and Away") and whether to take a new job on a CIA task force.

Now fans will never know what was going to happen. Well, except in broad terms: Series co-creators Matt Corman and Chris Ord sat down with Entertainment Weekly magazine after the finale (before they realized their show was canceled) to talk about what would be coming in season 6. They confirmed, basically, that the characters would remain "a family."

"It’s like any family, right, people go off in different directions, but they’re all still a family," said Ord. "There will always be things that unify them ... pull them back together." That's not a bad sentiment to go out on.

It's also one that applies to Corman and Ord. The two are working together again on the disease-outbreak drama "Containment," which premieres April 19 on CW. The network is billing it as a "limited series," which in TV parlance means it'll only air for a single season, unless it's really popular.

As for Perabo, she's booked another TV series that's currently in the pilot stage at ABC. In "Notorious," she plays a TV producer based loosely on real-life media personality Wendy Walker. The series is being described as "a provocative look at the unique, sexy and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media."

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