While fans of Magic City are understandably upset by the show’s cancellation, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht recently explained that the decision wasn’t a difficult one when it came to finances.
At the TCA press tour, he said, “It was a fine show but it was extremely expensive. It had decent audience but distributors weren’t interested in co-marketing it with us, and we felt season two had a pretty reasonable and satisfying landing spot.”
Magic City revolves around the world of Miami’s Miramar Playa Hotel in 1959. The TV series stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, and Danny Huston, with Steven Strait, Christian Cooke, Jessica Marais, Yul Vazquez, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Kelly Lynch, and Elena Satine.
What do you think? Did you like Magic City? Would you liked to have seen a third season?
Thank you to Starz for cancelling Magic City and ending a mother (84) and son’s (54) weekly time together and lengthy discussion of that era. My mother has dementia and the storylines from Magic City are the only memory she has of those years. It brought great joy to watch her and have her share her memories of when she was growing up. Too bad now that the only paid series’ available on cable deal with incomprehensible futuristic drivel. History is in the past as far as Starz is concerned. Shame.
I SAY LETS BOYCOTT STARZ BY CANCELLING IT. AFTERALL THERE IS NOTHING ELSE WORTH WATCHING ON IT. THEY CANCEL MAGIC CITY WHEN IT WAS JUST GETTING GOOD. NOW WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT BEN DIAMOND DOES AFTER GETTING OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. SO MANY GOOD ACTORS, SUCH AN INTERESTING PERIOD OF TIME, SO JUICY. NOW YOU LEAVE US WITH BLACK SAILS, DAVINCIS DEMONS, THE WHITE QUEEN, BLA BLA BLA. AND NOW”POWER” THATS REALLY AN ORIGINIAL SHOW…… NOT! BORING BORING BORING. AS I SAID EARLIER CHRIS ALBRECHT YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHRIS ALBRECHT YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING BACK MAGIC CITY! ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS ON TV.
I really enjoyed the show and just love the main actor he is so sexy and very good actor. I am so very sad they cancelled it. How can they cancel such a good show and leave on these other ****** reality shows. It just SUCKS. I am sick and bed written and Magic City TV Show was my favourite and I am going to miss it so much. I have been watching reruns and reruns and never get sick of it. So sorry to see it cancelled. It was so very good.
This sucks! So much was left hanging! Starz really pulled the rug out from under its viewers. I only recently discovered this show. I binged on the dvds. If Starz had put some publicity behind this great show, I’m sure the ratings would have reflected it. Hey Starz execs…. I’m mad and disappointed. You put the $ before the viewers. Shame on you.
F*^k Starz!!!!! Canceling my subscription, f*^king wannabe major netwrk
This was uo there with HBO’s Boardwalk as one of the most entertaining shows on tv, VERY disappointed to learn of this.
Bring back magic city!!
Why would Starz cut something that was so good? It amazes me when a secondary network can’t keep a good thing going. Not sure if I will ever get hooked into another show from Starz again.
Totally disappointed. Have been waiting for season 3. We loved it! I can not believe it got cancelled. Bring it back…please!
This is the best show on stars that I liked so make season 3 please or I am not going to have stars no more
If they do not make a season 3 of magic city I am not going to not have stars no more that is why I got it and all the shows on stars are dumb but magic city is not so get off your butts and just do it now please
Very disappointed.
My all time favorite show
Loved the series! We watched both seasons in just a few days on “On Demand”. We would love to see more.
Totally disappointed , it was very interesting seeing what went on back in my early childhood, I was enamored by the show. Maybe another network with cash flow will pick it up!