Time Bandits TV series

Apple calls time on the Time Bandits

The Time Bandits television series isn’t getting a second run.  Thanks to news via Deadline, we’ve learned the Time Bandits has not been renewed by Apple TV+. The show, based on the cult movie by Terry Gilliam, came from the creative minds of showrunners Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Iain Morris (The Inbetweeners), … >

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Dead Boy Detectives

Dead Boy Detectives cancelled at Netflix

The streamer’s fickle finger of fate calls time on the Dead Boy Detectives.  Variety are reporting that Dead Boy Detectives won’t be returning for a Season 2. The series based on Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner comics, and based in the world of The Sandman, debuted on Netflix back in April 2024. Despite broadly positive … >

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The Acolyte – Disney calls time on the Star Wars series

The show, set in the High Republic era, told the story of a pair of force sensitive twins. According to a Deadline report, Disney+’s The Acolyte won’t be continuing to a second season. The show, from showrunner Lesley Headland, is a mystery-thriller set in the Star Wars universe’s High Republic era. It began with a … >

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Outer Range Season 2

Outer Range – Prime calls time on the genre bending show

The show’s second season landed in May 2024, but Outer Range has now been cancelled by the streamer.  According to reports in the press, including at Deadline, Prime Video have cancelled their Sci-fi/Western series Outer Range. The genre bending show, which began in 2022, starred Josh Brolin as family patriarch Royal Abbot. The story followed … >

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The Lazarus Project

Sky calls time on The Lazarus Project

The show won’t be resurrected for a third series.  Despite its recent BAFTA Cymru win and a TV BAFTA nomination for the show’s star Paapa Essiedu, Sky won’t be commissioning a third run of The Lazarus Project. The sci-fi thriller, from writer Joe Barton (Giri/Haji), followed the exploits of an agency with the ability to … >

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The Peripheral cancelled

The Peripheral cancelled as writers’ strike begins to bite

Prime Video has cancelled The Peripheral as the writers’ strike claims more victims Deadline reports cancellation of The Peripheral as Prime Video takes stock of the damage the writers’ strike is doing to it’s portfolio. Despite positive reviews, it seems second season shows are vulnerable to lengthy delays and the article suggests there are many more such … >

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Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Trek: Prodigy loses its home at Paramount+

The Protorstar’s mission is imperilled, but there’s still hope for the show’s second season.  As the Paramount+ streaming service prepares to fully integrate with Showtime, news has broken that a number of its shows are being cancelled. I guess we all knew that the streaming bubble was unsustainable and would burst at some point. In … >

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Life on Mars – sequel series Lazarus has been scrapped

Lazarus would have reunited Gene Hunt and Sam Tyler, but it hit insurmountable financial hurdles.  A proposed follow-on series to the BBC’s terrific Life on Mars have been in the works for a number of years. The original show burst onto our screens in 2006, mysteriously transporting the modern day police officer Sam Tyler (John … >

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