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 really liked the show and i hate when they cancel shows in the middle with out completing the story line
I really liked the show. It was one that my daughter actually sat down to watch with me. I’m very sad to hear this.
I liked the show a lot!!!!!!! Boo on you
loved this show!!
I really love this show and always looking forward for the next episode. Been waiting for it to go back in air. It’s a really cute show even my 6 year old son love it. We wanna see the rest of it.
I am appalled that they cancelled this show. The ending to the second season was amazing and a shocker and a total twist and I cried when I figured they canclled the show. I need the third season you cruel animals
This is show is really amazing and funny, I am not the kind of person to watch TV but this show made the diference. I saw all the episode on Netflix maybe in 3 weeks . I do not understand why this has been canceled.
This is show is really amazing and funny, I am not the kind of person to watch TV but this show made the diference. I saw all the episode on Netflix maybe in 3 weeks . I do not understand why this has been canceled.
Im so upset that the show is cancelled. I need to see what happens next!
I almost cried when I read that this show is cancelled.
This is a show that never should have been cancelled. It was funny yet sent a life message with every episode. This show gets cancelled and 2 broke girls lives on. The times we live in.
Nooooo! This show was amazing. There’s nothing else like it on tv. Please bring it back!
Sad that they canceled the show. This show was funny and light hearted. Nothing on tv is similar to it. Please bring it back! Writers do a great job with the story line.
I would like to see the rest of the show played out. Even if online says there is only 6 shows unaired I’d like to see closure between will and friona. It was obvious there was more in the last show of season 2. I predicted they would hook up in the first few episodes. When they finally did the show was pulled from the air? At least sell the last 6 episodes to Netflix or Hulu for us to see some sort of closure. Sucks just when the show was getting good it was pulled off the air. Typical… Read more »
Hey everyone… The 6 unaired episodes of Season 2 are available on Netflix!
Where??