Once I assessment the lengthy checklist of exhibits canceled in 2024, it is arduous to understand simply what number of sequence do not get to proceed. Whether or not price range cuts, leaving room for brand new content material, or the Hollywood strikes have factored into TV exhibits getting the ax, the cancellations carry on coming. Now, with 2024 simply days away from being over, one other one-season present from the streaming schedule is getting the ax on Apple TV+.
Whereas 2024 is nearly over, canceling streaming exhibits definitely isn’t, as Display Each day confirmed the new Apple TV+ sequence Sunny is on the chopping block. Together with Max’s Tokyo Vice (which acquired canceled by the streamer in June after two seasons), the black comedy sequence was thought-about the second US sequence shot in Japan that acquired axed in current months.
Primarily based on Colin O’Sullivan’s novel The Darkish Manuel, Sunny premiered in July and starred The Workplace’s Rashida Jones as a lady residing in futuristic Japan whose husband and son mysteriously disappeared in a aircraft crash. Due to her husband’s electronics firm, she’s given “consolidation” within the type of a robotic, Sunny, who shares a bond together with her and helps her uncover what occurred to her household.
Now, sadly, after ten episodes that ended with a cliffhanger, the Apple TV+ sequence gained’t return for Season 2.
Sunny is not the one sequence on Apple TV+ that acquired canceled this yr. The streaming service quietly canceled two exhibits in Might — British rom-com Nonetheless Up and the sci-fi thriller Constellation. The American comedy sequence The Large Prize Machine additionally solely survived one season regardless of Recent Rotten Tomato scores. Even the fantasy-adventure present Time Bandits starring Lisa Kudrow didn’t make it previous its first season. Like Netflix, which likes to cancel exhibits after one season, Apple TV+ has additionally solely given a lot of its sequence one likelihood earlier than saying goodbye eternally.
Whereas it seems that Apple TV+ has been fast to eliminate many well-received exhibits, loads of huge sequence on the streamer have been renewed this yr too.
For instance, the book-to-screen adaptation ofThe Final Factor He Advised Me plans to return for Season 2.
There’s additionally the dystopian sequence Silo which has been renewed for not simply Season 3 however Season 4 as nicely! Invoice Lawrence’s Shrinking and Unhealthy Monkey additionally acquired renewed this yr. And we are able to’t overlook about considered one of Apple TV+’s finest exhibits Palm Royale, which is getting a second season therapy.
Nonetheless, it is nonetheless an actual bummer to consider all of the exhibits, together with Sunny, that do not get this type of likelihood to develop.
However, you may all the time return and rewatch Season 1 with an Apple TV+ subscription earlier than transferring on to the opposite good content material the platform has to supply.