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A little over a month after the full first season premiered, Amazon has cancelled its Jean-Claude Van Johnson TV show. Because it originally debuted as part of Amazon’s viewer-influenced pilot season, the first episode premiered back in August of 2016, but season one of Jean-Claude Van Johnson just officially kicked off on December 15, 2017.
An Amazon scripted spy comedy, Jean-Claude Van Johnson stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kat Foster, Moises Arias, Bar Paly, Tim Peper, Phylicia Rashad, Deren Tadlock, Winston James Francis, Filip Van Damme, and Carlo Rota. While the world knows Jean-Claude Van Damme (Van Damme) as a movie star and martial arts expert, he’s actually a secret agent — who is pulled out of retirement to face his fiercest foe — himself.
Today, Amazon also cancelled Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi and Kevin Bacon’s I Love Dick. On the upside, earlier today, they renewed The Tick for season two. Deadline reports:
Amazon is doing more clearing the decks with the cancellation of three comedy series: Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
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“This is part of a move towards bigger, wider-audience series,” an Amazon insider told Deadline.
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The cancellation for Van Damme’s Jean-Claude Van Johnson was very swift, coming only a month after the satire was released.
Amazon, which is on the hunt for big, broad drama hits, has dramatically pared down its comedy series slate, once populated heavily of quirky, underrated half-hour shows. Besides Globe-winning Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and just-renewed freshman hit The Tick, all other existing comedy series have been canceled, and the streaming platform also recently opted not to pick up any of the three comedy pilots from its most recent fall pilot season.
What do you think? Have you watched the first and only season of the Jean-Claude Van Johnson TV series? Did this Amazon TV show deserve to be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Sound off, in comments.
Such a great show! Creative, full of action, well written,and funny as hell! Got some news for ya Amazon, the bulk of your entertainment sucks.
I so don’t understand this cancellation purpose!! Jean Clade Van Johnson has extreme,t jig reviews everywhere I’ve seen, and they still cancel. I haven’t watched TV consistently in Years and finally found something that I enjoy and provides me with a much needed break from life with three kids under 5. They are crazy for canceling. Please bring it back.
Just binged. Can’t believe they are canceling…
amazon wants big drama shows. BORING no thanks
Its a travesty that you are canceling JCVJ!! It is comedy gold! Please dont kill it!
I personally enjoyed Jean Claude Von Johnson. Removing it I believe is a mistake. I’m an amazon prime member and it is mostly for the movies. This one one of my favorites I’ve watched. You seem to keep cancelling the movies I’m interested in and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.
Terrible decision. The show is fun and wit. There are a lot of shows hard to watch on Amazon and the streaming world. This was one of the best of them. HBO and Netflix do not pull the trigger so quickly, it makes more sense to stick to them.
I’ve binged on this show twice already. It was disappointing that there were only six episodes, now I find out it’s been cancelled 🙁
Maybe Netflix, or HUlu can pick it up ?
Super bummed 🙁 I loved jc when I was a kid! this series really renewed that feeling of nostalgia with all the old movie references and bad ass martial art moves. Honestly his role in this was awesomely cheesy and that made me respect him even more! COME ON AMAZON it’s not like you don’t have room to run a million shows! I spend hours just looking for something decent to watch and this was such a new concept for a show! Jcvj is ten times BETTER than the TICK!!! Hopefully someone else picks this up somehow 🙁
Jean-Claude Van Johnson is the funniest damn show I’ve seen since Community. This is a damn shame to cancel it. If they had actually promoted it, it’d probably be huge. This show is genius. For real.
The problem with the show was the audience, premiered on a small network where only a limited group of viewers can actually see it, that is for some shows, a certain death.
I did not even know this show existed before now, but would have loved to see it. Always loved Jean-Claude!
Van Johnson is the best thing Van Damme has done since the 90’s…
It would be a real shame if they cancelled season 2, because Johnson is inovative and something new not only from JCVD, but complitely something new and an original show!
I’d rather watch this amazing show with Van Damme, instead of all thoose cheap straight to DVD action movies.
Definitely deserved a second season and was a fun watch; way too quick a decision not to renew; hopefully campaign to save show or someone else picks it up;
Worth watching for sure
I enjoyed the show. I was looking forward to Season 2. Now I’m very disappointed.
This show was simply awesome. I hope that another network picks it up and gives it a few ads so people even know it exists.