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?
Me and my daughter watch it every night we love this show ! Nbc don’t let us down ! It’s such a great cast and this show has a lot of comedy which I love . We will bring the views and the ratings back up don’t cancel it . We have our months open with this last episode of season 2 we have to watch the next ep
This show has to come back ! Nbc & the cast left us with our mouth open ! Me and my daughter absolutely love it ! We watched every single Episode NBC BRING IT BACK ! We will get those ratings and viewers back up DONT LET US DOWN ! Whatever y’all do don’t cancel it ! It’s such a great show !
I can’t believe it’s cancelled! It’s a fantastic out of the box show and actually works for it’s humour rather than making crude or violence related jokes. A great reminder that relationships can grow from the weirdest beginnings.
PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!
It makes me so sad that this was cancelled! It’s such an out of the box show that’s both funny, but with a fantastic reminder that friendships can grow from the weirdest of places.
PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!
YOU CANT END IT LIKE THAT!!!! PUT UP THE LAST SIX EPISODES because the 2.41 million viewers that were watching it are pissed
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS SHOW IS CANCELLED PLEASE IT CANT END LIKE THIS SOMEONE PLEASE PICK IT UP IM BEGGING YOU WITH EVERYTHING I HAVE
Loved this show and just finished season 2 on Netflix. So many mindless, cliche shows on, can’t believe this one was cancelled. The movie was good, but very dark comedy. I love the more positive spin on the mom that this show has. PLEASE air the remaining episodes, or Netflix pick it up!
I miss this show so much. HOW can some of the c&^p airing even compete with this. Come on NETFLIX hire this cast for season 3 Im begging you!!!
Great show!! Very funny!!
Loveeeeeeeeeed this show!!!!
Awww I loved this show can’t believe it was cancelled. I want to see the last 6 episodes
I love this show so much & am very disappointed to hear that they canceled it! Please bring it back!
I really LOVE this show and was so glad I found a good one. There aren’t so many outhere. The show “About a Boy ” is so great and entertaining why would they cancel it? People don’t always have an opportunity to watch it on TV but will watch on their own time on Netflix and maybe that’s why the show didn’t have the ratings the network was looking for. I’m pretty sure I’m one of many who absolutely loves and appreciates this sitcom. I could never understand why good shows get canceled or good products get discontinued. Please bring… Read more »
Love the show. Can’t believe it was cancelled. The least you can do is release the remaining 6 episodes online for streaming.
This show was amazing and as 13 year old girl that actually really liked it was peculiar but it was an amazing perspective of how a life can go.I really loved this show I still do love it so can the whoever airs it at least put on Netflix or even play the rest on nbc cause I know I’d be one of the billions to watch this amazing show.Please the viewers want to watch this .