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The battle for humanity’s survival is ending earlier than hoped The FOX network has cancelled the neXt TV series so there won’t be a second season, a victim of low ratings and COVID-19.
An action-thriller series, the neXt TV show stars John Slattery, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Jason Butler Harner, Fernanda Andrade, Eve Harlow, Aaron Moten, Michael Mosley, Evan Whitten, and Gerardo Celasco. The story revolves around Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc (Slattery) who built a fortune and his legacy on his world-changing innovations.
After discovering that one of his own creations — a powerful artificial intelligence called “neXt” — might spell doom for humankind, Paul tried to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother (Harner). When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Andrade) and her unique and talented team. Now, they are the only ones standing in the way of a potential global catastrophe, fighting an emergent superintelligence that will deploy the immense knowledge it has gleaned from the data all around us to recruit allies, turn people against each other, and eliminate obstacles to its own survival and growth.
The first season of neXt averages a 0.30 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 1.67 million viewers. Just two episodes have been aired thus far. The third has been released on Hulu but didn’t air on FOX because of the World Series. It’s the network’s lowest-rated show out of the 10 current series.
Variety reports that FOX plans to air the remaining seven installments of the season. The network also cancelled the low-rated Filthy Rich series today. Both were reportedly cancelled thanks to low ratings and rising production costs due to COVID-19.
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What do you think? Have you seen the neXt TV series on FOX? Would you have watched a second season of this action-thriller series?
I loved this show. You MUST continue it. ABSOLUTELY give it a second season and more.
Of course they cancelled it. The globalist want AI and human/machine interface. The program told the truth.
Of course FOX canceled “NEXT” it was to truthful.
I am so p***** off they canceled this show!!! I really loved it!
It amazes me that the powers that be cancel a great show like Next but continue to run some of the worst garbage I’ve ever seen. Very disappointed in the Network bosses!
I’m just watching the last 2 episodes now, I haven’t been on the edge of my seat since the Mr robot series.. Can’t believe this treasure got cancelled. Pls give it a chance to blossom.
This series keep me on the edge of my seat and was one I looked forward to. So unfortunate that a good show was cancelled.
The best new show of the 20/21 ljne-up. It had superior writing, suspense, and we’ll round, interesting characters. If Fox would have utilized the advertising budget to promote this show, it would have gained a great deal of viewers. The way we “rate” TV should be changed a bit. I can’t imagine someone 18-25 is watching the same shows as someone 40. There in lies part of the reason the good shows are being cancelled after 1-2 seasons. They keep expecting people 18-29 to actually watch TV. Majority do not. They are definitely a generation detached from the TV. If… Read more »
Very disappointed this programme has been cancelled. I felt this was well written and certainly well acted and probably prophetic.. When I look at some of the garbage on TV which is so obviously impossible to believe, compared to an SF show like this which is probably only a few years into the future, the programme shows the possibilities or probabilities of the effects that AI could have on the future of humanity. Not just an enjoyable show but thought provoking.
This was a good, well thought out show. I don’t think it should have been cancelled after 6 episodes. Give it a chance FOX!
My friends and i loved and looked forward to each episode. so disappointed that it was cancelled. what a shame. ! i agree that it wasn’t even given a chance. !!!! kept us on the edge of our seat s, and excited for what was coming NeXT !
Great show! Wish they woukd do second season
It got dumb with the psycopaths showing up in each episode but it was a fun show, just like Mental and many others. It is rare that you get an old man protagonist as well, It was very similar to MR Robot but I would have liked to see it develop into its own thing
Oh well, yet another great show cancelled too soon by the networks. And they wonder why we don’t trust them anymore.
I found NEXT to be one of the few network series I have found entertaining in recent years. It is amusing to me that moronic reality shows get high ratings and get renewed year after year but an interesting, suspenseful and thought provoking show like this gets cancelled. It’s a sad commentary on our society.
neXt / 24, very disappointed to see it (them) canceled!