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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?
Great series, really have gotten into the show and now I see it’s cancelled! Really? To bad
Why did you cancel this already? For goodness sake’s give it a dang chance. Two episodes really. I loved it very well written exciting dramatic edge of your seat. Please reconsider
Awesome show! It didn’t make sense to premiere it right before the MLB Playoffs started. The weeks between episodes because of those playoffs really hurt the cause. Smh
I hope another network picks it up.
I really hope someone picks up this series and keeps it going. Best show I’ve seen this year. I don’t understand why tv networks don’t give shows a chance anymore. I didn’t even know the show came out until it came out on hulu
Valerie B
I liked the show, 2 episodes is not enough time to build an audience.
Just for once I would like to see a tv show in which they know they are only going to make 15 episodes instead of dragging it out, creating more characters and pretty much changing the show. Think Designated Survivor.
I very much enjoy the neXt series and look forward to it every week. I’m very disappointed that it will be cancelled, compared to some the weird stuff they keep online.
Loved it. Really annoyed to see it was cancelled. We only got 5 episodes. They say they might air another 7 which would make sense to finish the story off
We loved the well done scifi thriller. They screwed up by not giving it 6 weeks straight without missing a week to get people hooked. We were already hooked and hope someone rescues it someway. Great show, want more.
The show had significant potential, and this was a mistake. We are automating everything in this country today, and AI is the future. Be careful what you wish for because humanity never learns from their mistakes!
The show really had no chance. Skipping weeks in between episodes. Being on Fox. I recorded the series on my DVR and now I will delete it without watching a single episode. FOX has cancelled too many good shows. Any new shows on FOX I am interested in I record the whole season and see if FOX will renew it, before watching it. You could argue that I contributed to the cancellation by not watching every week. That might be valid but FOX has hosed my shows so many times and All Most Human was the straw the broke the… Read more »
Shocker that FOX cancelled an above average sci-fi show.
Bummer….great show, next to 24, Numbers, and Fox Mulder !!
Really bummed when good AI shows come out and they canceled it. Why so we can watch more quality entertainment of reality shows
Obviously, AI has taken control of the production side and fox, and we can’t see it anymore.