Detective Dwight Hendricks (Jason Lee) has sung his last Elvis song and solved his last case. TNT has cancelled Memphis Beat after two season on the air.
A TNT spokesperson said, “TNT has decided not to pick up a third season of Memphis Beat… The network thanks everyone involved in the production of Memphis Beat for their work on the series, including the great cast and crew. TNT wishes everyone the best.” The last episode aired on August 16th.
Beat was the last of the TNT dramas to have its fate decided. The cable channel renewed Leverage, Rizzoli & Isles, Falling Skies, and Franklin & Bash but cancelled Beat, HawthoRNe, and Men of a Certain Age. Men had the worst ratings of the three axed series while HawthoRNe and Beat were next in line.
Lee will next be seen on NBC’s Up All Night and Beat creators/spouses Liz Garcia and Josh Harto recently sold a new drama to the peacock network called The Meadows.
What do you think? Are you sorry that Memphis Beat has been cancelled? What would you have liked to see happen in season three?
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Bad decision by TNT. Hopefully another production company will pick it up.
Can’t believe another good show got cancelled with some of the dreck that stays on the air. Hope MB seasons 1&2 are on DVD soon.
Loved the show and was anxiously awaiting the next season. Would like to have the two seasons on DVD or at least ON Demand to watch just one more time.
I know of a # of households including my own that are very sorry TNT has chosen to cancel an excellent show. We loved MEMPHIS BEAT. What are they thinking??????
I’m so bummed, ABSOLUTELY LOVED MEMPHIS BEAT ~ It will be sorely MISSED!!! 🙁 🙁
I agree with everyone that’s posted so fat. It was a very good show, a “cop” show, but different, with a bunch of great character actors that brought the stories to life. Besides all that, I’ve been in love with Alfre Woodard for 30 years; where am I going to see her now? I”m a sad panda 🙁
Can’t believe another good show is cancelled. I was really looking forward to several seasons of Memphis Beat.
Horrible decision. With all the crap on tv, this was one of the few shows I really liked. I’m from Memphis, so I liked seeing some of my home town. Very sad.
The networks execs who make these decisions aren’t morons, they are idiots!!! Moron have IQ’s, idiots don’t!!! Memphis Beat is a great show, especially for TNT, and they should keep it going.
So sorry hear Memphis Beat won’t be back, loved the show. But, every show that is good always gets cancelled—-GRACE was another one, just lasted longer
They canceled Memphis Beat, but renewed the insipid Franklin and Bash? UGH!!!!!!
Memphis Beat was a good show – different – and I’m sorry it was canceled.
How sad! Great show.
What a bunch of morons that run these networks. Here was a different type of cop show that was fun for its’ quirkiness. If this was dumb reality show it probably would have survived.
really disppointed…it was a great representation for our city…