Sometimes, TV shows that are based movies can be big successes. Sometimes not. About a Boy was not and now NBC has cancelled it after two seasons without even airing all of the episodes.
About a Boy revolves around San Francisco songwriter Will Freeman (David Walton) who had a big hit. It set him up for life financially — and gave him a lot of freedom and free time. His world is turned upside down when a charming boy named Marcus (Benjamin Stockham) and single mom named Fiona (Minnie Driver) move in next door.
The sitcom debuted in February of 2014 with a special preview episode that attracted a healthy 2.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 8.26 million viewers. In its regular timeslot a week later, the ratings rose a bit to a 2.47 rating with 8.36 million. The numbers started falling after that but NBC still renewed it for a second season.
Season two performed even worse and lost a lot of steam. It hit a new series low of a 0.69 rating in the demo with 2.41 million viewers. NBC decided to trim About a Boy’s episode order by two and then opted to drop it from the schedule, leaving six installments unaired.
The network hasn’t announced any plans to air the leftover episodes and, now that they’ve cancelled the series, it doesn’t look likely that they will.
What do you think? Do you like the About a Boy sitcom? Would you like to watch the remaining six episodes?
Man this stinks I love that show
NOOO! I very much wanted another season from About a Boy. I find it hilarious, witty, and realistic. Bring About a Boy back!
I was devastated to hear that they canceled this show. It was definitely one of my favorites, if not my favorite and I will always love this show. I really wish they would air the rest of the episodes on netflix, just for those of us who really cared about the shows success.
I absolutely fell in love with that show, I am very disappointed that it was cancelled. They should definitely show what they had left.
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I enjoyed this show, not sure how streaming rights work, but it would be nice if Netflix can stream whatever was left of season 2.
I love this show. I think that casting was brilliant. Each character was perfectly planned and quirky. I’m extraordinarily disappointed. I have a hard time believing that it was cancelled and actually that the public was denied the remaining segments . I’m watching it for the second time now
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Noooo (I actually just cried real tears after binge watching this series on Netflix for 2 days)
My family loves this show!! Please air the additional shows on Netflix. It only makes sense. Netflix keep making the series.
Loved the show! Just watched boy seasons in 3 days! Would love to see the rest.
At least, they could put the left episodes on Netflix, so people that want to watch can… That’s sad, they can’t finish on a kiss between Fiona and Will.
I loved the show. It was something i would watch with my brothers and laugh about. So upset they cancelled it was bearly getting where i wanted it.
It was hilarious, I waited for will and fiona to be together and all we get to watch is the kiss, this is really upsetting.
Loved this show! Fiona and Will should be together!!!! Wish they would make more episodes!!
Such a horrible show that it has a five star rating and is one of the first things that pop up on netflix. This definitely not a high budget show and it should become a netflix original series.