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Way back in 2016, Vulture wrote of the now mostly forgotten Netflix series Bloodline that “Netflix did something it’s rarely done in its four-year history of original programming Wednesday: It canceled a show.” These days, updates on streaming series reckon with how “platforms invented cruel and unusual ways to cancel them.” Well, the great cancel-off of 2024 is officially on its way, and no show is safe. Without reputable sourcing on streaming audience numbers, there’s little way to know if your favorite piece of art content is actually a hit or just a hit with your friend group/online bubble/in-laws. So we end up with cancelations like Our Flag Means Death, which, based on the amount Taika Waititi fans talk about it, sure seemed like a hit. This Fool was canceled on February 14, which (besides Valentine’s Day) was Ash Wednesday. Time to think about your sins, execs. Below, a list of every TV show canceled so far in 2024.
What’s it about? A follow-up to the original NBC series of the same name, the show follows a new team that is trying to restart the work 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 in this show set “amidst the glamor of the global elite,” per Hulu. Imogene Scott (Beane) becomes the prime suspect in a locked room murder mystery on a lavishly restored Mediterranean ocean liner. To prove her innocence, she must partner with the world’s greatest 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, star Neil Patrick Harris plays a newly single gay man named Michael where, per Netflix, “Overnight, he has to confront two nightmares: losing the man he thought was his soulmate, and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-forties in New York City.” Showtime tried to save it from cancelation early last year, but their efforts were not fruitful; they uncoupled with the idea of a season two in March.
Number of seasons: 1
When was it canceled? March 21
What’s it about? Long, long ago, in the pre-YouTube essays era of the internet, someone made a machinima show using Halo. The success of Red vs. Blue spun out into a whole company, Rooster Teeth, which was eventually subsumed by Warner Bros. Discovery. And we all know what happens to cartoons at Warner Bros. Discovery. Rooster Teeth announced its shut down March 6, as well as the final season 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 action comedy-drama follows legendary killer Charles “Chairleg” Sun (Justin Chien), whose father — the head of a Taiwanese triad — is shot 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 completely sheltered from the truth of his family 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 as cousins/reluctant buddies. When Luis (Quiñones) is released from prison, Julio (Estrada) becomes his case worker at a gang-rehabilitation center run by a rich white 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 while signing autographs at the stage door after Appropriate. “In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind,” described Netflix of the series 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 series followed a special forces team that celebrates a victory in Las Vegas, but “when the real threat emerges, they must sober up to save Las Vegas.” Created by Cobra Kai’s Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, the show 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 family move into an old hotel that the town believes “is haunted by the ghost of a girl who disappeared over 30 years ago,” per Disney. “When Griffin and his new best friend Harper try to solve the mystery of what happened to her, they find a portal that lets them travel back in time, where they learn that the secret to solving the mystery is meeting Griffin’s own father!”
Number of seasons: 3
When it was canceled: January 30
What’s it about? Created by Teen Wolf’s Jeff Davis and based on the books by Edo van Belkom, Wolf Pack follows four young adults who “find themselves drawn together under a full moon” when “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 as the titular flight attendant Cassie Bowden, the first season was based on the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian. The second season follows Bowden “living her best sober life in Los Angeles while moonlighting as a CIA asset in her spare time. But when an overseas assignment leads her to inadvertently witness a murder, she becomes entangled in another international intrigue.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled: January 19
What’s it about? A pastiche of classic musicals, season two of Schmigadoon found, “Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) in Schmicago, the reimagined world of ’60s and ’70s musicals,” according to AppleTV+. “The second season of Apple’s broadly acclaimed comedy will include new original musical numbers from co-creator and executive producer Cinco Paul.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled: January 18
What’s it about? “Rap Sh!t follows two estranged high school friends from Miami, Shawna and Mia, who reunite to form a rap group,” Warner Bros. says. “In their rise to fame, Shawna and Mia find themselves at a pivotal moment in their rap career as they are forced to decide if they will stay true to themselves or conform to the demands of the music 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 show was inspired by “Julia Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. Through Julia’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity and America’s cultural 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 on the true adventures of 18th-century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby),” according to Warner Bros. “After trading the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede became captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes changed after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard (Taika Waititi). To their surprise, the wildly different Stede and Blackbeard found more than friendship on the high seas … they found love. Now, they have to survive it.”
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? January 9
What’s it about? After being revived from the dead (being canceled by Max) after one season by Starz, the network proceeded to cancel the show after one extra season. “Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women,” according to Warner Bros.
Number of seasons: 2
When was it canceled? January 5
What’s it about? The show is “based on Gene Luen Yang’s groundbreaking graphic novel that chronicles the trials and tribulations of a regular American teenager whose life is forever changed when he befriends the son of a mythological god,” Disney+ says. “This is the story of a young man’s battle for his own identity, told through family, comedy, and action-packed Kung-Fu.”
Number of seasons: 1
When was it canceled? January 5
This story has been updated.
