01-06-2023, 03:00 AM
.....AMC cancels [ to save money ]:
'61st Street' [ Season 2 - even though all 8 episodes have finished filming ]
'Invitation to a Bonfire' [ with Tatiana Maslany - 4 of the 6 episodes have already finished shooting ]
....SyFy cancels:
'Astrid & Lilly Save the World' [ no season 2 ]
AMC Scraps 61st Street Season 2, Invitation to a Bonfire Adaptation Starring Tatiana Maslany
....Season 2 of Peter Moffat’s legal drama 61st Street will not air on AMC after all.
To cut costs, the network has scrapped the follow-up season, even though all eight episodes have already been filmed. The show, which starred Courtney B. Vance, was originally greenlit as a two-season event series back in 2019.
The network also pulled the plug on the series adaption of Adrienne Celt’s book Invitation to a Bonfire, which starred Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk, Orphan Black). Per Variety, four of the planned six episodes were already shot.
61st Street centered on Moses Johnson (played by Doctor Who’s Tosin Cole), a promising Black teen who was wrongfully swept up into Chicago’s infamously corrupt criminal justice system. Franklin Roberts (Vance), an overworked defense attorney, took on Moses’ case, and his push for change intensified over the course of the show.
The series was a gut-wrenching look at how one incident affects all aspects of the community, from Moses’ mother Norma (Andrene Ward-Hammond) and younger brother Joshua (Bentley Green) to the police officers and prosecutors investigating and the activists seeking justice and accountability.
Meanwhile, Invitation to a Bonfire was a psychological thriller set at an all-girls boarding school in New Jersey in the 1930s. The show followed Zoya (Freya Mavor), a young Russian immigrant pulled into a deadly love triangle with the school’s newest faculty member, an enigmatic novelist named Leo (Pilou Asbæk) and his bewitching wife (Maslany).
....they continue to cancel shows that have already finished filming......or close to finished filming...............?!
Astrid & Lilly Save the World Not Returning for Season 2 at Syfy
....So… maybe they don’t?
Astrid & Lilly Save the World, the sci-fi comedy that premiered almost a year ago, has been cancelled at Syfy and will not be returning for Season 2
The coming-of-age comedy carried a message that “we don’t have to look or act a certain way to be a hero” as it paid homage to iconic female-driven stories and characters in entertainment such as Buffy and Booksmart.
“High school is hard enough when you’re different,” read the series’ logline, “but when outcast BFFs Astrid (played by Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’s Jana Morrison) and Lilly (newcomer Samantha Aucoin) accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It’s up to them to vanquish the creepy creatures and save the world, becoming the badass heroes they were meant to be. That is, if they can survive the horrors of high school.”
Leading out of the Syfy hit Resident Alien last winter, Astrid & Lilly retained but a fraction of its audience, with its March finale barely drawing 200,000 total viewers.
........no season 2.............................?!
'61st Street' [ Season 2 - even though all 8 episodes have finished filming ]
'Invitation to a Bonfire' [ with Tatiana Maslany - 4 of the 6 episodes have already finished shooting ]
....SyFy cancels:
'Astrid & Lilly Save the World' [ no season 2 ]
AMC Scraps 61st Street Season 2, Invitation to a Bonfire Adaptation Starring Tatiana Maslany
....Season 2 of Peter Moffat’s legal drama 61st Street will not air on AMC after all.
To cut costs, the network has scrapped the follow-up season, even though all eight episodes have already been filmed. The show, which starred Courtney B. Vance, was originally greenlit as a two-season event series back in 2019.
The network also pulled the plug on the series adaption of Adrienne Celt’s book Invitation to a Bonfire, which starred Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk, Orphan Black). Per Variety, four of the planned six episodes were already shot.
61st Street centered on Moses Johnson (played by Doctor Who’s Tosin Cole), a promising Black teen who was wrongfully swept up into Chicago’s infamously corrupt criminal justice system. Franklin Roberts (Vance), an overworked defense attorney, took on Moses’ case, and his push for change intensified over the course of the show.
The series was a gut-wrenching look at how one incident affects all aspects of the community, from Moses’ mother Norma (Andrene Ward-Hammond) and younger brother Joshua (Bentley Green) to the police officers and prosecutors investigating and the activists seeking justice and accountability.
Meanwhile, Invitation to a Bonfire was a psychological thriller set at an all-girls boarding school in New Jersey in the 1930s. The show followed Zoya (Freya Mavor), a young Russian immigrant pulled into a deadly love triangle with the school’s newest faculty member, an enigmatic novelist named Leo (Pilou Asbæk) and his bewitching wife (Maslany).
....they continue to cancel shows that have already finished filming......or close to finished filming...............?!
Astrid & Lilly Save the World Not Returning for Season 2 at Syfy
....So… maybe they don’t?
Astrid & Lilly Save the World, the sci-fi comedy that premiered almost a year ago, has been cancelled at Syfy and will not be returning for Season 2
The coming-of-age comedy carried a message that “we don’t have to look or act a certain way to be a hero” as it paid homage to iconic female-driven stories and characters in entertainment such as Buffy and Booksmart.
“High school is hard enough when you’re different,” read the series’ logline, “but when outcast BFFs Astrid (played by Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’s Jana Morrison) and Lilly (newcomer Samantha Aucoin) accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It’s up to them to vanquish the creepy creatures and save the world, becoming the badass heroes they were meant to be. That is, if they can survive the horrors of high school.”
Leading out of the Syfy hit Resident Alien last winter, Astrid & Lilly retained but a fraction of its audience, with its March finale barely drawing 200,000 total viewers.
........no season 2.............................?!