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 looove this show!! Currently watching it on Netflix and was extremely sad when I found out it was cancelled. 🙁
I absolutely love this show! It’s so damn funny and interesting! I suggested my friends to watch it too. I just learnt that it has been cancelled. I really hope that they host the rest of the episodes on the internet! 🙁
Love this show. Characters were so well developed. Please put the extra episodes on Netflix.
I love this show. I would love to watch the remaining episodes. Even if NBC doesn’t want to air it their regular cable station at least put them up on Netflix so that those that want to know how it wraps up can watch it.
I LOVE this show! I love everything about it! It’s funny show to sit down and watch. I watched both seasons and I very excited at the end but was very sad when they didn’t have any more episodes. I wish they would make more or at least put what they have on Netflix.
This show is so funny and it is honestly my favorite show to just binge on and I’m upset there’s only 2 seasons. I would love to watch the last 6 episodes and I’m hopeful they change their mind after 2 years to continue the show. On Netflix it has almost all 5 stars. I’m just really sad and disappointed this show was cancelled. It’s a great show.
This is one show I recommend to everyone because it is clever, funny and heartwarming. What a poor decision to cancel it. There is so much garbage out there that gets renewed. Please release the last six episodes at least.
Greatly disappointed the show has been cancelled, there is not a show out there more heart warming than About A Boy. They really should rethink there decision on canceling after only two seasons
I just finished both seasons and was upset to find out it has been cancelled. I really would love it if they changed their minds and the rest of the episode were realised.
Yes! I watch this show on repeat, and I’ve never done that before with any other show, it lifts my spirits every time! I don’t understand why it would be cancelled.
Yes:(
I also recently finished Young and Hungry.. was tough to get through the last season for me. How did that make the cut, but not this? I wonder. Tough crowd.
Yes! I just finished it on netflix and am highly upset. It has great ratings there!!!
I am so mad they cancelled this show!!!! This show was great I hope they change their minds about airing the last few episodes its just not fair!!!
This was such a great show…it is difficult to find anything this real, funny and lighthearted anymore. Please consider airing the last few episodes and renewing other seasons. It’s popularity or lack thereof as NBC makes us believe is surely not the real reason it was cancelled. I really enjoyed it 🙁 so disappointed
My girls and I LOVE this show. We are so disappointed. Please at least air the last few shows. We need some kind of closure!