Back in May, I wrote a WBNQ Blog about how many shows were getting cancelled, and about the outcry from fans over their demise. The biggest gut buster was the surprise demise of FOX TV’s LUCIFER, because it ended on a cliffhanger. Guest what? Even LUCIFER has found redemption!
“Lucifer” was canceled by Fox after three seasons in May. The series follows Lucifer Morningstar (the Devil). He is bored in hell, so he abandons it to go to Los Angeles where he runs a nightclub and becomes a consultant for the LAPD.
Fox said “Lucifer” was canceled due to poor ratings, but its devoted audience made enough noise that both Netflix and Amazon were in talks to bring it back for a fourth season. In the end, Netflix took it.
Guess what else was saved?????….
Critics gushed over the third season of “The Expanse,” a sci-fi show set on colonized planets hundreds of years into the future. In May, SyFy canceled the show. But critics and fans rallied behind it and campaigned to save it, with over 130,000 fans signing a Change.org petition. The campaign even involved fans flying bannered planes over the Amazon headquarters, and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin sending an email in support of the show to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, according to Deadline.
In late May, Bezos announced that Amazon picked it up for a fourth season.
And finally:
Devastated “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” fans instantly took to social media to express their sadness about Fox’s cancellation in May. Less than two days later, NBC announced that it was bringing the Brooklyn set cop comedy back for a sixth season during the 2018-2019 season.
“It was the middle of the night, I woke up to my phone glowing and I’m wondering what is going on,” star Terry Crews told Business Insider about finding out the show had been saved. “I got all these texts with everyone saying, ‘We’re picked up!’ I jumped out of bed. I felt like I was one of Madonna’s kids. ‘I get to live in the mansion now, she picked me!'”
