The date for the seventh season of the long-running comedy has been scheduled for September 26, but a huge (and rather unpleasant surprise) might be in store for fans all over the world.

A new network, new executive producers and a new crew of writers may turn the story of the close mother-daughter couple towards an unpredictable direction.

Add to that the fact that this is the final contract year for the two leading actresses, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, and you'll know exactly what we're talking about. On Monday, after the Television Critics Association summer meeting, they talked to the press and shared their uncertainty about the show.

'Your legal contracts are up and you begin to imagine what-if. I don't want to be in a situation where I feel sorry for me. I've seen what happens to actors and shows where the thing is done, let it be over. I don't know that we're in that situation', Graham said.

Bledel also added: 'I really don't know what this year is going to be like. I'm going to see what it's like, then decide how I feel. We'll see'.

Graham has some complaints of her own, too, especially related to the fact that, in the last season, the writers had her character, Lorelai, give fiancé Luke a now-or-never ultimatum and he let her walk out of his life. She wasn't too keen either on the painful separation from her on-screen daughter Rory.

The script of 'Gilmore Girls' was penned, until the end of the sixth season, by the Palladinos spouses (show creator and co-executive producer) but they decided to leave because they couldn't reach an advantageous agreement with Warner Bros. Television.

Dave Rosenthal, who is now in charge of the series, says that he is not treating the seventh season as if it were the last, but speculations are already circulating that 'Gilmore Girls' is, indeed, drawing to its end.