Dawson’s Creek Drained at Last

Kerr Smith, Katie Holmes, James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson, and Michelle Williams in “Dawson’s Creek”

The once unstoppable ratings cow will be taken to the slaughterhouse in May, TV Guide announced today, and Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes will have to figure out how to make themselves more appealing to the public on their own now that the show has officially given up trying. Which probably means that they, along with their fellow female co-stars, will soon turn up topless in some straight-to-video duds that no one but sites like this one will even know about.

The harsh (but not undeserved) epitaph from TV Guide:

AT LEAST IT’S NOT SUFFERING ANYMORE:
The WB has finally put Dawson’s Creek out of its misery. On Sunday, the network announced that the dried-up teen drama would end its five-year run in May. (Teenage girls everywhere are asking themselves: Ohmigod! Was that still on the air?) A two-hour finale airs May 14, after which James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams and Joshua Jackson will begin weighing offers from Celebrity Mole and Surreal Life.

On the bright side, this could mean the beginning of a new, if brief era of all the former Dawson’s Creek aging nymphets frantically getting naked in as many films as are offered to them as they race to towel themselves off from all association with the dead and un-missed series.