Pricey Edward, the emotionally pushed drama collection on Apple TV Plus, has been cancelled after a single season.
Per The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab) (THR), the Jason Katims-developed TV present will not be returning for a second season on Apple TV Plus. Pricey Edward turns into the third Apple TV Plus scripted collection to be canned after one season, becoming a member of Little Voice and Shantaram on the platform’s discarded unique programming pile.
Apple hasn’t defined why Pricey Edward was ended after a single outing. Nevertheless, with combined evaluations from followers and critics – Pricey Edward holds 55% critical and 65% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes (opens in new tab) – the weepy plane-crash drama did not seize viewers’ imaginations. We have reached out to Apple for remark, and we’ll report again if we obtain a response.
Releasing on Apple TV Plus on February 3 with a three-episode premiere, Pricey Edward – primarily based on Ann Napolitano’s e-book of the identical title – tells the story of Edward Adler, a 12-year-old survivor of a aircraft crash that kills everybody else on board, together with his household. Edward, plus different people affected by the tragedy, join within the fast and long-term aftermath of the catastrophic occasion, and assist one another to work by their particular person and collective trauma.
The season 1 finale, which aired on March 24, arrange the place a second season would go, offering that Apple renewed Pricey Edward for an additional installment. Lower than one month on from the top of its first season, although, Pricey Edward‘s destiny has been sealed.
Regardless of its schlocky story beats and considerably overbearing thematic exploration of grief, Pricey Edward managed to sneak its approach onto our greatest Apple TV Plus exhibits listing upon arrival. Its cancellation, although, may imply its keep within the aforementioned information is over earlier than it is actually begun.
A brief-haul flight for an additional Apple TV drama
It is uncommon to see Apple cancel considered one of its exhibits after a solitary season. As I discussed above, Pricey Edward is just the third Apple TV Plus unique scripted collection to be consigned to the scrap heap following its preliminary 10-episode run (the others being the beforehand talked about Shantaram and Little Voice).
Much more surprisingly, Pricey Edward is just the fourth Apple TV Plus drama collection to be given the chop by the streaming division’s government group after one season. Wonderful Tales, the Steven Spielberg-created anthology collection, is the one different drama present to be cancelled since Apple TV Plus was launched in November 2019.
There are different Apple TV Plus originals which have been dumped after a single season. Comedy-drama Mr. Corman, youngsters exhibits together with Fraggle Rock: Rock On! and Amber Brown, and quite a few docuseries, corresponding to Tiny World, have didn’t make it to their sophomore years on one of many world’s greatest streaming companies.
Nonetheless, it takes one thing particular for Apple to finish considered one of its TV exhibits prematurely. In actual fact, the globally-renowned multi-industry firm has solely canned 23 collection in Apple TV Plus’ three-and-a-half 12 months historical past. That is discounting the streamer’s miniseries, which solely run for a single season anyway. With out factoring its miniseries library into the equation, these 23 cancelled exhibits solely quantity to 22% of Apple’s TV Originals lineup since its streaming platform debuted in late 2019.
Contemplating the amount of cash Apple throws at its streaming service and unique programming – Apple by no means discloses actual figures however, judging by every collection’ manufacturing worth, it looks as if so much – every present must carry out nicely sufficient amongst audiences to advantage a second season.
Clearly, Pricey Edward did not pull within the viewers essential to be deemed worthy of renewal. Its cancellation, then, should not come as a whole shock. That is one TV present that warranted nothing greater than a short-haul flight.
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