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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?
Very much enjoying the show along with my husband. Dismayed to hear there will be no Season 2 and wondering whether to bother watching the rest of Season 1 if we are only to be left hanging at the end. Frustrating!
Dumb Fox! Such a great show. My nerd friends were all talking about it!
I’ve been impatiently waiting for file four to air. When episode 4 was to air, episode three aired again! I found this show late and wish I’d heard of it before. It definitely needed to be marketed better/differently. I would watch every episode of this season and two more. Give it.a decent chance! I was loving this show
fox really screwed up. Continue the “Next” series!!! a**holes!
I’m disappointed that neXt was cancelled. I really liked the show. I look fwd to more episodes being broadcast.
How can they cancel it when they didn’t even give it a fair chance? I’m very annoyed at them for doing this again.
It feels a lot like when they cancelled a little unknown show called “Firefly”. How did that turn out you ask….oh the fanbase petitioned so hard they made a feature film out of it….Fox does not have a good track record of decision making.
It seems this is a typical FOX Way of doing business, they rather show raunchy programs rather than something that sparks the interest of people. Science-fiction will always go far. I think the writers should stop writing for local channels and stick with The networks that are not on the main stream media.
The plot idea was good but at the end, nothing new.
I watched 2 first episodes and didn’t finished episode 3…
It was a great concept and should have been given more of a chance.
I loved this show and I’m really disappointed it has been cancelled. Huge mistake and someone should really rethink this!!
I liked it
This is an amazing show that I’m actually mad that they will be canceling
neXt is an amazing series that kept my whole family glued to the tv! It’s well written, suspenseful and appeals to all ages. What a shame that it didn’t get the viewers or attention it deserves. I don’t think it was promoted properly or well enough. With US election coverage going on, it may have gotten bit lost in all the fracus present on tv. The network should try promoting again (and in better way) once post election noise dies down. We loved neXt! We are totally sick of bad reality tv shows or other “light”, brainless tv, which seems… Read more »
This show nearly passed me by…I found it by accident and loved it from the start. Mentioned it to friends who had never heard of it either!! My nerdy mates usually have their fingers on the pulse but were amazed that they had missed it.
They are now annoyed, they I have got them all into a show that has now been flippin cancelled!
Next should go season 2 It was interesting and could very well happen in real life.They did enough advertising to get people’s attention to the show and now cancel it,doesn’t make sense.Give it a chance.