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?
It’s sad that instead of spending a little money to promote a good show they cancel it instead. We already have to many ‘reality’ shows that the world can handle. We’ve got so many heavy subject shows like ones on crime, medical dramas, etc. A light hearted, quirky, funny show is what we need. So much sadness, fakeness and crime are shoved down our throats all the time, we need stuff like this in our lives. It’s something that lifts the heaviness of the world off our shoulders for a few minutes. Laughter is a good thing.
I can’t believe such an awesome show could be taken off air this soon. Its unbelievable honestly, and with it being allowed to air on Netflix, more people are going to become attached to this show and its loveable characters and more people that are going to be anger at NBC for taking it down. Its just sad, at least give us some closure instead of the cliff-hanger ending that was season 2.
Just found this jem on Netflix. Such a wonderful show. Quirky and lovable. With all the “reality” shows that I will not watch because there isn’t a tiny bit of reality in them, it’s a very sad day when a good show finally arrives it gets canceled. Wish NBC would bring it back or Netflix would pick up where NBC so clearly dropped the ball.
I LOVE this show. i watched both seasons as soon they came out. i would watch them til i fell asleep because of lack of sleep, then when i would wake up i would continue watching it.. im VERRRYYY upset there is so season 3. i love it. i thought it was hilarious!! i want to see what happens between will and fiona! i love it! ):
I just found about a boy on Netflix. I watched one episode and next thing I know I was staying up til 5 am binge watching it. This show has something that others don’t usually contain and that is the realness of it. So many of my favorite shows have been cancelled due to this factor that people don’t like anything that they can relate to or connect with–they like tv shows that have fake reality, fake people and fake story lines. About a boy was something an audience could relate to and laugh along with. It is an absolute… Read more »
Very disappointed and sad!! I loved the show.
Very disappointing ! I really love that show! I wish they would make a season 3
How sad! I just found this show on Netflux and have been binge watching it. I love the quirky, real, and heartwarming characters. At least air the episodes already filmed
I AM IN LOVE WITH ABOUT A BOY! ITS THE MOST QUIRKEST, ADORABLE, FUNNY AND HEART WARMING SHOW IVE EVER WATCHED AND TO KNOW THAT THERES NOT GUNNA BE A THIRD SEASON OR LET ALONE EVEN FINISHING THE REMAINING SIX EPISODES, IS DEVASTATING. IF THEY DID AIR THOSE LAST SIX EPS, I WOULD WATCH IT! OF COURSE! AND IM SORRY THAT I MADE THIS COMMENT IN ALL CAPS BUT IM JUST SO DISAPPOINTED, THIS WAS A GOOD SHOW AND IM IN MADLY LOVE WITH IT.
This was a great show. Over and over we see good shows cut and junk is left on .
Hearing this news honestly made my day awful. Please at least put the remaining 6 episodes on netflix 🙁
Very sad. Loved it and always looked forward to watching it.
Very disapointed!
Love the show, I wish they could air the remaining of the episodes. I fell in love with the characters.
So disappointed that there won’t be a season 3!