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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.
This show could have easily managed another 3 seasons. Very entertaining and great to see the legend in action. More!
I loved this series! I periodically checked to see if there were more episodes and finally googled it to see what happened. Very disappointing to see it was cancelled.
I thought it was great … love the fight scene … and some great acting by the legend himself. I just finished season one and was hoping for more
I loved it and I still have season 1 on my watchlist. I was really hoping for another season. It was definitely worthy.
This is str8 Bss … JCVD if you’re reading this then I hope you’ll just do it yourself. Start your own production company and give us a season ² ..
I’m so disappointed they cancelled this show
Was so looking forward to another season. A real big disappointment for me and hopefully a regret for Amazon!
Why do crappy shows run forever and this show which really shows how JCVD can laugh at himself get canceled? He brings so much with plenty of hidden references to his career.
6 episodes and was to awesome yo let go of
I really enjoyed this series, it was something really different. I’ve never really been into Jean-Claude Van Damme films but I thought he was great in this series. Such a shame it’s been cancelled.
I’ve been a long time fan of JCVD. When the pilot for this show originally aired back in 2016 I got super excited. I couldn’t wait for the whole season to come out. I checked every other week to see when it would come out and when it finally did I binged the whole season in a few hours. I immediately thought “What are they gonna do for season 2?”. It’s really too bad that Amazon cancelled this series. I do hope that another network picks it up like Netflix or Hulu. I would absolutely watch it.
Enjoyed Van Damme as an 80s kid watching JC movies when I shouldn’t have been haha. This will definitely make me re-watch some classics of his, if Amazon offered a bundle package of those movies could be an additional revenue stream.. Maximize Amazon cmon. 1 season of this was probably enough though… But I would watch another season if released.
Really thought it was a great show , so tired of the over done dramas . Wish someone else would pick it up.
It was funny, odd, destined to die, in this stream more stream more hemorrhage that is a bubble. Pop.
So sad I wanted to see season 2 of Jean Claude Van Johnson. Wish Amazon would bring it back.
I absolutely loved the show and would personally love to see a second season…amazon bring back jean Claude Van Johnson!!