You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: We have been watching “Las Vegas” on Xfinity and the final episode left a lot of unresolved questions. Is there a way to reach out to see if whoever has rights to the show would consider doing a show to tie up loose ends?

A: “Las Vegas” originally aired from 2003 to 2008, and was canceled amid falling ratings and difficulties related to the Hollywood writers strike.

Series creator Gary Scott Thompson told TV Guide that the fifth-season finale, which ended with a “to be continued” note, was meant to be the first half of a two-parter; the second part would have started a sixth season, which then did not happen. The show did have ideas for that sixth season, or at least a two-hour movie finale: “My plan was to wrap it up and make it satisfying for all the fans, and, in some ways, give ourselves an incredible curtain call with all the major characters who have been on ‘Vegas,’“ Thompson said. Absent that, there was talk about having Danny, Delinda and their baby appear briefly on “Knight Rider” to reassure viewers about their fate — but then “Knight Rider” was canceled, too. And no one has revived "Las Vegas" since.

Q: Decades ago there was a TV show that I found warm and charming. I remember that the setting was a funeral home in New Orleans. Can you tell me the name of the show?

A: My first thought was that you remembered the much-admired “Six Feet Under,” set in a family-run funeral home (but in Los Angeles). Then, on your own you found “Frank’s Place,” a show which still holds a warm place in my heart. For those of you unfamiliar, the 1987-88 comedy starred Tim Reid (“WKRP in Cincinnati”) as a Boston history professor who learns he has inherited a New Orleans restaurant. He has to learn to adjust to the staff and the community, which includes a funeral home, including a beautiful mortician played by Daphne Maxwell Reid, Tim’s wife.

The ensemble cast and the adept storytelling (“WKRP’s” Hugh Wilson created the series) should have led to a long run. CBS ordered a second season but then abruptly canceled it instead. According to the book “Tim & Tom,” Reid was told that CBS’s then-owner Laurence Tisch killed the show because he was offended by an episode criticizing junk-bond deals — the kind of deal Tisch had made to buy CBS. Since then, music rights issues have for the most part kept the show from rerelease. (The episodes are on YouTube and Archive.org, but the video and audio quality are not great.) Still, it is remembered fondly by those of us lucky enough to have seen it.

More on “Barstow”: In a previous column I mentioned that Angie Harmon mentioned plans to make two new “Buried in Barstow” movies for Lifetime. Since then, the network has offered more details about the movies, set for air in 2027. From the announcement, in addition to Harmon again playing Hazel King, “Kristoffer Polaha (‘Jurassic World Dominion’) returns as Elliot, the former doctor determined to reclaim the career he lost while building a new life with Hazel, and Lauren Ashley Richards (‘Venom’) reprises her role as Hazel’s daughter Joy. Megan Follows (‘Reign’) joins the cast as Zadie, the enigmatic matriarch of a powerful construction family whose interests in Barstow soon intersect with Hazel’s in increasingly dangerous ways. Harmon’s daughter, Finley Sehorn, will make her acting debut in the films, portraying a young Hazel. … As new threats and unexpected connections emerge, Hazel must navigate loyalty, motherhood, and the possibility of redemption, while confronting who she used to be.”

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