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Way backmost successful 2016, Vulture wrote of the present mostly forgotten Netflix bid Bloodline that “Netflix did thing it’s seldom done successful its four-year past of archetypal programming Wednesday: It canceled a show.” These days, updates connected streaming series reckon with however “platforms invented cruel and antithetic ways to cancel them.” Well, the large cancel-off of 2024 is officially connected its way, and nary amusement is safe. Without reputable sourcing connected streaming assemblage numbers, there’s small mode to cognize if your favourite portion of art contented is really a deed oregon conscionable a deed with your person group/online bubble/in-laws. So we extremity up with cancelations similar Our Flag Means Death, which, based connected the magnitude Taika Waititi fans speech astir it, definite seemed similar a hit. This Fool was canceled connected February 14, which (besides Valentine’s Day) was Ash Wednesday. Time to deliberation astir your sins, execs. Below, a database of each TV amusement canceled truthful acold successful 2024.
What’s it about? Nasim Pedrad transforms into awkward Persian American teen Chad Amani, who is navigating his taste individuality and the chaos of precocious school. The Roku Channel swooped successful to prevention the drama aft TBS’s last-minute cancellation, but it has present confirmed to Deadline that it’s out, too.
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? May 7
What’s it about? Love Is Blind’s Vanessa Lachey and NCIS: LA’s LL Cool J prima arsenic “a skilled premix of mainland transplants who’ve re-located to the tranquility of the Pacific and wizened locals who cognize their mahalo from kapu,” according to CBS.
Number of seasons: 3
When was it canceled? April 26
What’s it about? Per CBS, “a superb squad of forensic investigators” indispensable invited backmost aged friends and deploy caller techniques to look an existential menace that could bring down the Crime Lab. The aged friends successful question see William Petersen and Jorja Fox successful play one, and Marg Helgenberger starting successful play two.
Number of seasons: 3
When was it canceled? April 19
What’s it about? Pitch Perfect’s Skylar Astin played a backstage researcher who reluctantly goes to enactment astatine his mother’s (Marcia Gay Harden) instrumentality firm.
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? April 19
What’s it about? The year-round daytime speech amusement premiered successful 2010, with a treatment format featuring Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen Moonves, Leah Remini, Marissa Janet Winokur, Sara Gilbert, and Sharon Osbourne. The astir caller big lineup included Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Jerry O’Connell, Natalie Morales, and Sheryl Underwood.
Number of seasons: 15
When was it canceled? April 12
What’s it about? A follow-up to the archetypal NBC bid of the aforesaid name, the amusement follows a caller squad that is trying to restart the enactment of Dr. Sam Beckett, who stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and disappeared 30 years ago.
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? April 5
What’s it about? Mandy Patinkin and Violett Beane starred successful this amusement acceptable “amidst the glamor of the planetary elite,” per Hulu. Imogene Scott (Beane) becomes the premier fishy successful a locked country execution enigma connected a lavishly restored Mediterranean water liner. To beryllium her innocence, she indispensable spouse with the world’s top detective, Rufus Cotesworth (Patinkin), whom she happens to despise.
Number of seasons: 1
When was it canceled? March 29
What’s it about? Created by Darren Star, prima Neil Patrick Harris plays a recently azygous cheery antheral named Michael where, per Netflix, “Overnight, helium has to face 2 nightmares: losing the antheral helium thought was his soulmate, and abruptly uncovering himself a azygous cheery antheral successful his mid-forties successful New York City.” Showtime tried to prevention it from cancelation aboriginal past year, but their efforts were not fruitful; they uncoupled with the thought of a play 2 successful March.
Number of seasons: 1
When was it canceled? March 21
What’s it about? Long, agelong ago, successful the pre-YouTube essays epoch of the internet, idiosyncratic made a machinima amusement utilizing Halo. The occurrence of Red vs. Blue spun retired into a full company, Rooster Teeth, which was yet subsumed by Warner Bros. Discovery. And we each cognize what happens to cartoons astatine Warner Bros. Discovery. Rooster Teeth announced its unopen down March 6, arsenic good arsenic the last play of Red vs. Blue.
Number of seasons: 19
When was it canceled? March 6
What’s it about? Created by Brad Falchuk (Glee, American Horror Story) and Byron Wu, this enactment comedy-drama follows legendary slayer Charles “Chairleg” Sun (Justin Chien), whose begetter — the caput of a Taiwanese triad — is changeable by a mysterious assassin. Per Netflix, Sun heads to L.A. to “protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and his naive younger brother, Bruce (Sam Song Li) — who’s been wholly sheltered from the information of his household until now.”
Number of seasons: 1
When was it canceled? March 1
What’s it about? Chris Estrada (who created the show) and Frankie Quiñones starred arsenic cousins/reluctant buddies. When Luis (Quiñones) is released from prison, Julio (Estrada) becomes his lawsuit idiosyncratic astatine a gang-rehabilitation halfway tally by a affluent achromatic dilettante (Michael Imperioli).
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? February 14
What’s it about? Sarah Paulson seemingly confirmed the show’s cancelation portion signing autographs astatine the signifier doorway aft Appropriate. “In 1947, Mildred arrives successful Northern California to question employment astatine a starring psychiatric infirmary wherever caller and unsettling experiments person begun connected the quality mind,” described Netflix of the bid inspired by One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Number of seasons: 1
When it was canceled: February 5
What’s it about? Per Netflix, the bid followed a peculiar forces squad that celebrates a triumph successful Las Vegas, but “when the existent menace emerges, they indispensable sober up to prevention Las Vegas.” Created by Cobra Kai’s Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, the amusement starred the ensemble partiers of Nick Zano, Shelley Henni, Terrence Terrell, Alyson Gorske, C. Thomas Howell, Eugene Kim, Paola Lázaro, and Kimi Rutledge.
Number of seasons: 1
When it was canceled: February 1
What’s it about? Griffin Campbell and his household determination into an aged edifice that the municipality believes “is haunted by the shade of a miss who disappeared implicit 30 years ago,” per Disney. “When Griffin and his caller champion person Harper effort to lick the enigma of what happened to her, they find a portal that lets them question backmost successful time, wherever they larn that the concealed to solving the enigma is gathering Griffin’s ain father!”
Number of seasons: 3
When it was canceled: January 30
What’s it about? Created by Teen Wolf’s Jeff Davis and based connected the books by Edo van Belkom, Wolf Pack follows 4 young adults who “find themselves drawn unneurotic nether a afloat moon” erstwhile “a raging wildfire releases a supernatural creature,” according to Paramount+.
Number of seasons: 1
When it was canceled: January 25
What’s it about? Starring Kaley Cuoco arsenic the titular formation attendant Cassie Bowden, the archetypal play was based connected the caller of the aforesaid sanction by Chris Bohjalian. The 2nd play follows Bowden “living her champion sober beingness successful Los Angeles portion moonlighting arsenic a CIA plus successful her spare time. But erstwhile an overseas duty leads her to inadvertently witnesser a murder, she becomes entangled successful different planetary intrigue.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled: January 19
What’s it about? A pastiche of classical musicals, play 2 of Schmigadoon found, “Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) successful Schmicago, the reimagined satellite of ’60s and ’70s musicals,” according to AppleTV+. “The 2nd play of Apple’s broadly acclaimed drama volition see caller archetypal philharmonic numbers from co-creator and enforcement shaper Cinco Paul.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled: January 18
What’s it about? “Rap Sh!t follows 2 estranged precocious schoolhouse friends from Miami, Shawna and Mia, who reunite to signifier a rap group,” Warner Bros. says. “In their emergence to fame, Shawna and Mia find themselves astatine a pivotal infinitesimal successful their rap vocation arsenic they are forced to determine if they volition enactment existent to themselves oregon conform to the demands of the euphony industry.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? January 18
What’s it about? A Max spokesperson confirmed to Vulture that Julia is closing up the kitchen. The amusement was inspired by “Julia Child’s bonzer beingness and her long-running tv series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. Through Julia’s beingness and her singular joie de vivre, the bid explores a pivotal clip successful American past – the emergence of nationalist tv arsenic a caller societal institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the quality of personage and America’s taste evolution,” according to Warner Bros.
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? January 10
What’s it about? “Our Flag Means Death is based (very) loosely connected the existent adventures of 18th-century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby),” according to Warner Bros. “After trading the seemingly charmed beingness of a man for 1 of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede became skipper of the pirate vessel Revenge. Struggling to gain the respect of his perchance mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes changed aft a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard (Taika Waititi). To their surprise, the wildly antithetic Stede and Blackbeard recovered much than relationship connected the precocious seas … they recovered love. Now, they person to past it.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? January 9
What’s it about? After being revived from the dormant (being canceled by Max) aft 1 play by Starz, the web proceeded to cancel the amusement aft 1 other season. “Minx is acceptable successful 1970s Los Angeles and centers astir Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent steadfast (Jake Johnson) to make the archetypal erotic mag for women,” according to Warner Bros.
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? January 5
What’s it about? The amusement is “based connected Gene Luen Yang’s groundbreaking graphic caller that chronicles the trials and tribulations of a regular American teen whose beingness is everlastingly changed erstwhile helium befriends the lad of a mythological god,” Disney+ says. “This is the communicative of a young man’s conflict for his ain identity, told done family, comedy, and action-packed Kung-Fu.”
Number of seasons: 1
When was it canceled? January 5
This communicative has been updated.
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