Nick isn’t smiling over this news. Syfy has cancelled the Happy! TV show so there won’t be a third season for this strange series. The program is based on a comic book series that was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson.
A comedic, fantastical crime drama, Happy! stars Meloni with Patton Oswalt (voice), Lili Mirojnick, Medina Senghore, Ritchie Coster, Patrick Fischler, and Christopher Fitzgerald. The season two cast also includes Ann-Margaret and Big Show. Happy! centers on a former cop, Nick Sax (Meloni). As a hitman on the skids, a drunken and depressed Nick had his existence turned upside down by Happy (Oswalt), an imaginary unicorn, who is out to save the day. In the second season, Sax is trying to stay sober and do right by his family, but old nemesis Sonny Shine (Fitzgerald) is now on a mission to Make Easter Great Again (MEGA) with the help of his demented Easter Bunny henchman.
The second season of Happy! averaged a 0.09 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 286,000 viewers. Compared to season one, that’s down by 56% in the demo and down by 57% in viewership.
Given the decline in ratings and because there was a nearly 14-month gap between the end of season one and the start of season two, the cancellation doesn’t come as much of a surprise. However, Universal Content Productions plans to shop the series to other outlets and the first season is supposedly performing well on Netflix.
Syfy has also cancelled the Deadly Class TV show. The cable channel appears to be cleaning house as Nightflyers, Channel Zero, and Killjoys (final season starts July 19th) have all been cancelled.
What do you think? Do you like the Happy! TV show? Should this Syfy series have been cancelled or renewed for a third season? Would you watch the show elsewhere?
HAPPY is a great show. The network hardly ever advertised this program and wondered why it didn’t get any ratings. I have asked a lot of people if they ever watched or heard of Happy, and they say they never heard of it. I really do hope another network would pick this show up for season three, or SYFY would redeem themselves and bring HAPPY back.
We love Happy! and would watch it on another network or streaming service.
Bummer! I loved this show. Maybe Netflix will pick it up? I hope so.
I love the show it was great I’m not a fan of syfu but this show was very interesting to me and I think it’s a shame that I was taken off
I loved this show. It was original goodness. Just because I like many/ the future watch it online and contribute **** all to ratings is no reason to cancel. Hope Netflix or Amazon/ someone who knows cable is dead picks it up, it’s a treasure of a show.
Why the hell would you cancel a TV series that is doing well on Netflix and most probably one of the best shows I have seen in a long time bring it back
No !!! I love this series . It’s storyline is so unexpected. There are at least 10 crappy shows they can cancel , leave this one alone!!!!
Bring back Happy! It should not have been cancelled! I hope someone rescues this show and continues it!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the show is maybe one of the few good ones and you are canceling it ?! WTF…hopefuly someone takes oer the show…I could,but i can’t
Took me a few episodes, season one, to catch on. Now love it. Dialogue, staging and pace. Casting all perfect. Genius show. Series 3,4,5,please
Hilarious and amazing series! Definitely should not be cancelled! I hope it gets picked up by another platform like Netflix. 1 of a kind show 4 sure!
It’s absolutely amazing I love the show its sick humour and totally chaotic I hope someone takes over like they did with Brooklyn nine nine
HAPPY! Was/is a brilliant show. Bordering crazy but I don’t think I would dail it back. Saddened to learn it has been cancelled. Hope this is false. Wish to see more of Nick and Happy’s adventures
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Bring Happy back!
I love it wow it sure was great bad move to cancel
I watched it and enjoyed it but I’m not too surprised by the cancellation as season 2 did get a little too wacky and without a clear enough direction at times.