It looks like the plug’s been pulled on The Knick. Deadline reports Cinemax has cancelled the TV series after two seasons.
From Steven Soderbergh, the drama was set in a New York City hospital circa 1900. The cast included Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, and Matt Frewer.
Over the course of two seasons, The Knick never managed to earn high ratings. Season two of the drama received an average rating of .06 in the 18-49 demo and only 240,000 viewers. However, the show did receive considerable critical acclaim during its short run.
Nevertheless, Cinemax has decided to cancel the series. This week, the network released an official statement saying they are going to focus on “high-octane action dramas” instead:
After a critically acclaimed two-season run of The Knick on Cinemax, we will not be going forward with additional episodes of the series. Despite our pride in and affection for the series, as well as our respect for and gratitude towards Steven Soderbergh and his team, we have decided to return Cinemax to its original primetime series fare of high-octane action dramas, many of which will be internationally co-produced.”
What do you think? Did you watch The Knick? Do you think Cinemax should’ve renewed the series?
THIS IS BS!! BRING THE SHOW BACK!! GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT
I love The Knick and really wanted to see a season three at least to wrap up the storylines. It was the reason I even turned Cinemax on. They may return to their “original format” of high octane action shows but I will not be watching. Without critically acclaimed shows like Ybe Knick they will never compete with HBO, Showtime and Stars. Lots of Luck to them.
I believe The Knick should have been given another season to finish off all of the storylines still left. The quality of the actors’ play was extraordinary. I loved all that we got to learn about the beginnings of medicine in those years, and the situation colored doctors and people in general had to endure although highly skilled. A great historical drama with a wonderful insight on life at the beginning of the 20th century: gets us to appreciate the progress we’ve made. Now if we can just figure out how to make it all available to all… As “Kathy… Read more »
I loved this show and was looking forward to another Season….why did they have to cancel it???
It is now easier to cancel all of my remaining premium channels from my tv provider and just rely on basic cable and Netflix and Hulu. The premium channels are losing out to the streaming media which seems to not have any problem bringing the viewers interesting shows.
I especially enjoyed seeing and learning about the medical procedures of that time period. I will miss the show!
I come to the conclusion that people don’t really want interesting, informative, with actual intelligent informative content. The average person only wants guns, murder,action,sex and nothing else! Comedies need to be stupid , funny and never how actual people act—–with the exception of a few great shows. The Knick was way over the average person brain capacity! It gave us information, realism and taught us many things—-which I knew would be canceled, it was just to good for most people to understand, an after all it’s really about money is’nt it?
I unfortunately agree with this conclusion: a very sad situation.
I loved the show and was really hoping it would return.
I won’t miss it. It got awful AND ridiculous!
Too bad, but not surprised. Killing off Clive Owens’ character at the end of Season 2 probably spelled the end of the series. I’m just surprised they took so long to make the announcement.
Please do not post spoilers like that!!!! Have some consideration for others!!
Well, it has been 15 months.
How do you even know that for sure? It was a cliffhanger…