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As the first season of TNT's Witchblade ends on Tuesday night, Top Cow's Marc Silvestri told The Continuum he is optimistic that the show will return for a second season.

"We're waiting for the word," Silvestri, who is an executive producer for the show, told The Continuum.

Neither TNT nor Top Cow has announced a second season. On Tuesday, TNT released an e-mail address, witchblade@turner.com, where viewers can voice their opinions about the show.

"Your support has been amazing," Silvestri told fans at Top Cow's panel at Wizard World on Sunday. "I love going on the chat boards and seeing all the response. The ratings not only held, they actually increased through the season, which is an amazing, for not only this type of material, but for a cable network like TNT.

"It looks strong. Keep your fingers crossed."

In other Witchblade news:

* Top Cow's Matt Hawkins announced there will be a Witchblade DVD that will feature the two-hour movie and bonus material.

"They're trying to make it for Christmas, but I don't think they're going to make it," Hawkins said. "It will probably be out the first quarter of 2002."

* When the Witchblade marathon - the two-hour movie and the 11 one-hour episodes airs this Saturday on TNT - it will include a promotional spot for Top Cow.

* Here's how TNT describes "Transcendence," the season finale:

"Jake plays his trump card, but ends up revealing a greater web of conspiracy and puts Sara and her friends in the lethal hands of Kenneth Irons. Now Sara must call upon the untapped powers of the Witchblade to save them all from Irons' evil scheme."