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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Found' Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons
EXCLUSIVE: Found will not be getting a third season at NBC. The series, starring Shanola Hampton, may be shopped by its lead studio Warner Bros. Television. The news comes ahead of the Season 2 finale, which has been teased as a showdown of sorts between Gabi (Hampton) and Sir's sister Lena (Danielle Savre). The episode, which will now serve as a series finale, airs on May 15. More from Deadline 'Suits LA' Canceled By NBC After One Season 'The Irrational' Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons 'Lopez Vs. Lopez' Canceled After 3 Seasons At NBC Found was canceled today alongside fellow NBC sophomore drama The Irrational. Coming from different studios, Found from Warner Bros. TV and The Irrational from Universal Television, the two series had similar runs. Held as strike contingency, both shows launched in fall 2023 amid a dearth of scripted originals on the broadcast networks. Taking advantage of the lesser competition and potent lead-ins, The Voice (Monday) for The Irrational and The Voice (Tuesday) for Found, the dramas started off well on NBC and Peacock. Found became NBC's top launch on the streamer until then, with its premiere episodes drawing 10.5M viewers across platforms in the first week. By late November, both dramas had been renewed for a second season. On a stacked 2024-25 broadcast schedule, Found – like The Irrational – has been registering steep year-to-year ratings declines, which factored in the cancellation decision. Found also faced a new story paradigm in Season 2 as one of the key elements of its premise changed with Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) escaping from Gabi's (Hampton) basement in the Season 1 finale. Ultimately, Found became a casualty of NBC's cutback on entertainment programming to accomodate the 180 primetime hours of basketball next season under NBCUniversal's $2.5B a year deal with the NBA, which also claimed dramas The Irrational, Suits LA and comedies Night Court and Lopez vs Lopez — all canceled today. Found follows public relations specialist Gabi Mosely (Hampton), who was once herself one of the more than 300,000 missing people of color in the U.S., and her crisis management team who now make sure there is always someone looking out for the forgotten missing people. Gosselaar, Kelli Williams, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh, Arlen Escarpeta and Karan Oberoi also starred. The series came from creator/showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll, who exec produced alongside Sonay Hoffman, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Lindsay Dunn. Berlanti Productions and Rock My Soul Productions produced in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television. Best of Deadline All The Songs In Netflix's 'Forever': From Tyler The Creator To SZA 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Chicago Tribune
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
TV for summer 2025: 15 shows coming up, including the return of ‘The Bear'
Heading into summer means first closing the book on yet another network TV season, which still follows the fall-spring slot on the calendar. I like that regularity and I think most viewers miss it when it comes to streaming. 'The Bear' is an outlier, premiering new episodes each June like clockwork. This time of year is also when broadcasters announce cancellations and the biggest changes are coming to NBC, where five shows got the ax: the dramas 'Found,' 'The Irrational' and 'Suits: LA' and comedies 'Night Court' and 'Lopez vs. Lopez.' Some of those decisions were likely a way to make room for NBC's new deal to carry NBA games. I'm not seeing anything particularly interesting on the horizon just yet for the broadcast networks next season, with one exception. Fox has ordered a U.S. adaptation of the British series 'Doc Martin' called 'Best Medicine,' which will star Josh Charles ('The Good Wife') in an hour-long comedy about a 'successful surgeon who abruptly leaves his post in Boston to become a general practitioner in the East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a kid.' That's still a few months off. In the meantime, here's a look at 15 shows on tap for the summer months, when streaming is your best bet for new and returning series, listed here in chronological order. Programming note: The 78th Tony Awards will air on CBS on Sunday, June 8. 'The Librarians: The Next Chapter' (May 25 on TNT): It's been a good while since TNT carried original programming outside of sports, but the network has two series slated for this year, including a miniseries called 'High Value Target' about a real-life CIA analyst's 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (no date announced yet) and this spinoff of TNT's adventure series 'The Librarians,' which last aired new episodes in 2018. The new version centers on a librarian time traveler from 1847 named Vikram who now finds himself stuck in the present. When he returns to his castle in Belgrade, he discovers that it is now a museum, and he 'inadvertently releases magic across the continent,' a mess he then has to clean up with a team of eclectic comrades. The first episode premieres Sunday after the NBA playoffs. The next episode premieres the next night on Monday, following NHL playoffs. (The show will then continue with a Monday night schedule.) 'And Just Like That …' (May 29 on HBO Max): Not a fan of this continuation of 'Sex and the City,' so much so I didn't even bother with the second season, nor am I planning to watch its third. So consider this just a heads-up for anyone who feels otherwise and has stuck with the show despite it all. 'Dept. Q' (May 29 on Netflix): A stubborn and sarcastic police detective in Edinburgh (Matthew Goode) is exiled to his department's basement to work as his own one-man cold case unit. It's a PR stunt his boss fixes up, mostly to get him out of her hair — nobody can stand the guy; he can barely stand himself — but slowly he builds a small team, who try to find out what happened to a prosecutor who went missing four years prior. The series blends droll humor and well-worn cop show tropes to focus on a grisly case. 'Stick' (June 4 on Apple TV+): Owen Wilson stars in this comedy as a pro golfer who has mediocre personal and professional prospects ('Tin Cup,' anyone?). With nothing else to lose, he decides to back a teenage golf phenom who has problems of his own. Apple is calling it a 'heartfelt, feel-good comedy about a found family and their relationships set within the world of golf as it has never been shown before.' 'Art Detectives' (June 9 on Acorn TV): Stephen Moyer ('True Blood') stars as an art-loving police detective, who works in the Heritage Crime Unit of this UK-set series, where he and his partner tackle murder cases connected to the art and antiquities world, 'from Old Master paintings, to Banksy street art, medieval manuscripts and collectible vinyl.' Plot twist: He must contend with the sudden reappearance of his father, who is a notorious art forger. You don't say! Sounds fun, but it's all in the execution. 'Grantchester'(June 15 by Masterpiece on PBS): It's the 1960s in an English village, where a police detective teams up with the local vicar to solve crimes. Sure, there have been three vicars over the show's many seasons, all young and handsome and somehow each finds himself doing some freelance sleuthing. The show was losing steam there for a while, but then Rishi Nair joined the cast last year as the newest vicar, bringing a charisma to the role that was otherwise absent, and he's back again for Season 10. 'We Were Liars' (June 18 on Amazon): The series is based on the 2014 novel from E. Lockhart about a group of wealthy teenagers who summer on a private island. Everything about the protagonist's life is enviable, until she suffers a head injury that affects her memories one summer. What really happened? And why are certain things so different when she next returns? 'Outrageous' (June 18 on BritBox): Based on the true story of the aristocratic Mitford sisters who, according to Wikipedia, 'gained widespread attention for their stylish and controversial lives as young people.' Set in the 1930s as a second World War loomed, there were major divisions in the family, some of whom were pro-fascist. The sisters include the British novelist Nancy Freeman-Mitford, who wrote about the upper crust. 'Ironheart' (June 24 on Disney+): Picking up after the events of the 2022 movie 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,' the series centers on Riri Williams, the 'genius inventor determined to make her mark on the world (returning) to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins aka 'The Hood.'' 'The Bear' (June 25 by FX on Hulu): As with previous seasons, all 10 episodes of Season 4 will be available to stream at once, which I know has been a controversial choice for audiences who prefer a weekly conversation about the show. I think a binge drop is fine in this instance. I had some mild critiques of Seasons 1 and 2, but overall really liked the show. Season 3? Less so. The narrative felt stalled in place and I think there are other characters getting short shrift whose stories are more interesting to explore than yet more Carmy angst. Here's hoping Season 4 bounces back. 'Smoke' (June 27 on Apple TV+): A crime drama centering an arson investigator (Taron Egerton) and a police detective (Jurnee Smollett) from Dennis Lehane (best known for novels such as 'Gone, Baby, Gone' and 'Mystic River') based on true events as the pair track down two serial arsonists. 'Nautilus' (June 29, AMC and streaming on AMC+): A reimagining of Jules Verne's 1870 science fiction adventure classic 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.' Originally made for Disney+ (which then declined to release the series) AMC has picked it up for U.S. distribution. The title comes from the name of the vessel in Verne's book, with Shazad Latif starring as Nemo, who 'plans to reach the fabled Viking treasure buried at the Pillars of Halvar. But first, he must win the trust of his crew, and keep out of the clutches of the ruthless East India Mercantile Company, who will do whatever it takes to stop him.' 'Too Much' (July 10 on Netflix): The 10-episode series follows a millennial workaholic named Jessica (Megan Stalter, so good on 'Hacks') who, fresh off a breakup, moves from New York to London to start over. From the streamer that brought you 'Emily in Paris' comes a show I'm sure they referred to internally as 'Jessica in London.' Stalter has a lot of talent and tang, so here's hoping the series is actually much better than that. Will Sharpe ('White Lotus') plays the handsome Brit who catches her eye. 'Wednesday' (Aug. 6 on Netflix): I liked the Addams Family spinoff series well enough when it premiered in November 2022. Was it good enough to be one of the more popular offerings from Netflix? Not in my opinion. It's a teen drama — one with style, though not an especially inventive one; executive producer Tim Burton is recycling old ideas by this point — which works best when it's simply being funny. The heavy plotting around a mysterious supernatural something or other? Didn't do anything for me. It's back for Season 2 and once again, Netflix is weirdly not premiering it around Halloween. This installment will be divided into two chapters, with the second picking up a month later in September. 'Peacemaker' (Aug. 21 on HBO Max): Season 2 of the DC Studios series starring Jon Cena arrives after a three-plus year delay. Well, maybe audiences are inured to these kinds of things by now. I like the first season well enough. It's a ridiculous show that knows it's ridiculous, with a fully R-rated Saturday morning cartoon sensibility that refuses to take itself too seriously. I was less interested in the way Peacemaker is presented as a racist and sexist figure who really just needs a hug: A cuddly Cro-Magnon. It's worth thinking about why, even within a largely comedic endeavor, this type of character has been designed to generate our sympathy.
Boston Globe
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
NBC's embrace of sports could be bad news for scripted programming
Lost in all of that excitement, however, was a Friday afternoon news dump that NBC would be axing five scripted shows: 'Found,' 'The Irrational,' 'Lopez vs. Lopez,' 'Suits LA,' and the revival of 'Night Court' were all given a pink slip to make room for hoops. While some of those shows had plenty of opportunity to find an audience, ' Advertisement Regardless of your feelings on those specific shows, the NBA on NBC spells danger for all original programming at Rockefeller Center, both new and old. While Sunday night has been a sports night for NBC since Sunday Night Football began in 2006, Tuesday's primetime lineup was where shows like 'Frasier,' 'This is Us,' and the original 'Law & Order' first flourished. Where will word-of-mouth shows like 'Scrubs' build an audience now that three precious hours of primetime will be occupied by an NBA pre-game show and a 2 1/2 hour game? Advertisement NBC did announce a number of new shows during its upfronts, but a surprisingly high percentage of them are airing Meanwhile, NBC is currently considering three comedies for just two open slots in its Monday and Friday night lineups. Not too long ago, a sitcom executive-produced by Tina Fey starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe would anchor a Thursday night of 'Must See TV.' But Fey's 'The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins' still doesn't have a timeslot, and will face competition from two other comedy pilots as As NBC celebrates its 100th birthday this upcoming year, the network is putting all of its eggs into the live events basket, positioning the NFL, the Olympics, and the NBA as its tentpoles. It's an understandable approach, but a tough pill to swallow from a company that has produced some of the best scripted TV shows of all time. Advertisement Over the past decade, viewers (and TV critics!) were overwhelmed by choice during the peak of the streaming wars, when
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Why Suits LA Is Canceled Before Season 2
Wondering why got canceled so abruptly? Fans had high hopes for the spin-off, especially after the success of the original Suits series. With Suits LA Season 2 anticipated by loyal viewers, the news of cancellation has left many wondering what went wrong. So, why was Suits LA canceled after its first season? Here's everything you need to know about the decision. NBC confirmed that Suits LA was canceled ahead of Season 2 due to its inability to meet the network's expectations. The show struggled to capture and retain viewership, a key factor in the decision-making process. According to Jeff Bader, NBCUniversal's head of program planning, Suits LA simply 'has not resonated' with audiences in the way they had hoped. 'It's just not showing the potential to grow for us in the future,' Bader said. He added that several factors played into the network's decision to cancel not just Suits LA Season 2 but also other shows like The Irrational, Night Court, Found, and Lopez vs. Lopez. (via Deadline) NBC evaluated each show's performance across both linear television and digital streaming platforms. The network prioritized series that demonstrated audience growth and stability. Unfortunately, Suits LA fell short in both areas. Its poor traction online and lukewarm reception on traditional television didn't support its renewal. At present, Suits LA holds a modest 5.7 rating on IMDb and a disappointing 36% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes. These metrics made it increasingly difficult for the network to extend the show for another season. The legal drama follows a former New York federal prosecutor, Ted Black, who transitions into a high-powered entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles. The series followed him and his firm, Black Lane Law, as they tackled high-profile cases while balancing personal and professional turbulence. While the premise was intriguing, it failed to connect with the audience as strongly as the original Suits series. As of now, all 12 episodes of Suits LA are available for streaming on Peacock. Although Season 2 won't happen, fans can still revisit the drama that unfolded in its brief run. The post Why Suits LA Is Canceled Before Season 2 appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NBC Responds to Outrage Over 5 Major Show Cancellations
A top executive at NBC is explaining the five controversial show cancellations at the network. Jeff Bader, NBC Universal's President of Program Planning Strategy, told reporters that Suits: LA was on the chopping block because it didn't resonate enough with audiences. 'Suits: LA had a very short run, but it really has not resonated [with audiences in] the way we thought it would,' he said at a press conference on May 10, 2025, according to Collider. Bader also addressed the cancellations of four other major shows. They are The Irrational, Night Court, Found, and Lopez vs. Lopez. 'It's so hard to talk about shows and which ones we're bringing back," Bader admitted, according to Deadline. NBC is just one of a string of networks and streaming services cancelling shows recently, driving fan outrage in some cases. The NBC cancellations have left fans of the shows raging. 'We had to look at the performance of the shows, both on linear and on digital,' said Bader, according to Collider, and he stressed that cancelling the shows was "hard." Although some of the shows could have ended up on Peacock, that didn't end up happening. 'We had to see the ones that looked like they had growth potential in the future. We're looking at how stable they are in their linear performance, how stable they are on digital which ones are growing, which ones are declining. And we had to make some hard decisions,' he said, according to Collider. According to Deadline, the shows collectively brought in millions of viewers, headed by The Irrational, which brought in 4.4 million viewers, compared to 3.7 million for Found, 2.3 million for Lopez v. Lopez, 2.3 million for Night Court, and 2.1 million for Suits: LA.
