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?
I loved the show.
Love the show,why?
PLEASE ADD MORE EPISODES!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW
Bring it back!!
I would LOVE to see more. I’m so sad it’s cancelled. I am so enotionally attached to the characters! Just like in Hart of Dixie. Excellent writers and actors on those shows!
I know this will be my 2nd comment, but I don’t understand who rated this show cause on Netflix it has almost a FIVE star rating.
I don’t understand how someone could like this show, it became one of my
favorite TV shows on Netflix. I really want a season 3.
I would LOVE to see the remaining episodes! I have loved this show from the beginning!!
I would love to watch the unaired episodes. I’m very disappointed it was canceled.
I just binged the whole show! Please renew……. it has quickly become one of my favorite shows. Netflix should pick it up
I love that show keep it going
Ohh noooo!!! I want a season 3!!!! I loveeeed all of the episodes!!! Im so sad to hear that everything was cancelled….. 🙁
I would like to see the rest of the episodes. I figured from the beginning that Will would end up with Fiona, but it would be great to see how it comes about.
I want to watch the remaining episode!!
I loved that show