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?
Please bring back my favorite show “about a boy” it makes me so happy and I loved every season ! I don’t understand how it isn’t a big hit ? It was amazing to me and my boyfriend ! We watched all of them back to back!!
I absolute love this show, it’s so sweet and so funny, I’m truly gutted that they left it in such a huge cliffhanger, I’m desperately hoping that they will bring back season 3, please bring it back !!
I loved this show, I found it so sweet and so funny, I’m truly gutted that they left it on such a huge cliffhanger I would very much love to see the other episodes. Please bring it back !!
as you can see people are daily complaining about this show being canceled. Bring it back!!
Please make a season 3. I love rhis show. Or at least continue on netflix with it.
Absolutely loved this TV series!!! We watched it on Netflix and fell in love! The characters were such real people who we soon felt a connection with!!! Wish there was a season three!!!
OMG I watched both season on Netflix in two days! I couldn’t stop watching it then I see the last episode and see when the third season is coming out… But there is none! I literally laughed out loud at is show it was amazing I don’t see why they cancelled it
I love this show! It made me feel so happy and connected to the characters. I even recommended it to my friends to watch on Netflix… Which is where I discovered this awesome show! Please give us more!
This sucks!!! I love this show! How do you get rid of a show this good. Everything was perfect, the characters, the plot, everything. I want to know what happens with Will and Fiona. This is so unfare! At least show the the last episodes.
OMG YES!!!!!!! THIS SHOW WAS SO AMAZING AND MADE ME SO SO SO HAPPY PLEASE SHOW THE LAST EPISODES
I hate when NBC does this to a series I can’t get enough of ! I This has been going on for years , starting with “The Dark Shadow” back in the early 90’s . I get into a show and they cancel it ,but they give prime time to junk stuff like “Reality Shows” All Junk ! NBC sucks —-I’m cancelling cable
You have already totally bummed me out by canceling season 3 so the very least you could do is release the last few unaired episodes! 🙁 The show was awesome and something new! The characters were perfect! I really loved the show! At least continue it on Netflix. Nobody watches TV anymore how was I supposed to tell you I loved the show when I didn’t know about it when it was airing. Look at the Netflix ratings it has 5 Stars!!!!!Season 3!!!!! Season 3!!!!! Show me unaired episodes!!!! I wanna see what happens between Will and Fiona!!!!!!
GREAT SHOW! SHOULD definitely continue … Season 3 would be nice. Just so funny in an adorable way.
Please release the last 6 episodes on Netflix for those who want to finish the series don’t be the company who leaves that cliff hanger.
Please put the remaining episodes on Netflix. I don’t watch tv so I had never heard of this series before. I watched through season two and then had to search and found it had been cancelled. Very disappointing..