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What’s This TV Show About?
Airing on the FOX television network, the Prodigal Son TV series stars Tom Payne, Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau, Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Bellamy Young, Halston Sage, Michael Sheen, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Season two guest stars include Christian Borle and Michael Potts. In the story, Malcolm Bright (Payne) is an extraordinary criminal psychologist who knows how killers think and how their minds work. In the 1990s, his father, Dr. Martin Whitly (Sheen), was a notorious serial killer called “The Surgeon” who killed at least 23 people. Since murder is “the family business”, Malcolm uses his twisted genius for good, to help the NYPD solve crimes and stop killers. He works alongside his longtime mentor, Gil Arroyo (Phillips), and two detectives — no-nonsense Dani Powell (Perrineau) and JT Tarmel (Harts), a born-and-bred New Yorker who questions whether Bright is a psychopath himself. In season two, Malcolm must deal with the repercussions of the first season finale and his father seeks to deepen his relationship with his prodigal son.
Season Two Ratings
The second season of Prodigal Son averages a 0.41 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.06 million viewers. Compared to season one, that’s down by 46% in the demo and down by 39% in viewership. Find out how Prodigal Son stacks up against other FOX TV shows.
Prodigal Son has been cancelled, so there will not be a third season. Could it be revived someday? Stay tuned for further updates.
Telly’s Take
Will FOX cancel or renew Prodigal Son for season three? The network has very few drama series and this one does pretty well. I’m thinking that Prodigal Son will be renewed. I’ll update this page with breaking developments. Subscribe for free alerts on Prodigal Son cancellation or renewal news.
5/11/2021 update: Prodigal Son has been cancelled by FOX.
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What do you think? Were you hoping that the Prodigal Son TV show would be renewed for a third season? Are you sorry that FOX cancelled this TV series, instead?
Why is this show getting canceled? It’s a great show. Seems fox always cancels every show that’s good. Please rethink as to what you’re doing. There’s been so many shows I’ve really liked that got canceled by fox. This is very upsetting.
Sad to see Prodigal Son leave the air. It was such a good series with a provoking theme.
Cancelling Prodigal Son is really disheartening to me as I really love this show and hate to see it end so abruptly without opportunity to continue to flourish. This show has so much more potential and I feel personally that consumers these days are more interested in streaming than live tv series and if there is any way to keep this show going it would mean so much to me as so many other viewers out there that I believe would concur with me. I would really appreciate any response in regard to this abrupt ending as an avid watcher.… Read more »
Fox has a terrible record of canceling great shows, and this is why I don’t like watching any shows on Fox. This is the only good show Fox has besides the masked singer. I really love this show and I hope it gets picked up by a streaming service.
This was one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time! ! Loved the suspense and story line. It was original and different! The cast was the best! I looked forward to watching it on Tuesday nights. Such a shame FOX let this go, and keeps the stupid ones. I am heartbroken. Shame on you FOX! You don’t know real talent when you see it!
Why do you people always cancel the great shows and keep the bad ones? Really enjoy watching this awesome show. Please reconsider your terrible decision
NOOOOOOO!!!!! No, no, no, no do NOT cancel another great show! These characters and their relationships are written SO WELL, the acting is seriously FANTASTIC, and there are no unnecessary sex scenes! It has the perfect amount of suspense, mystery, a little “horror,” and a very complicated (but very loving?? ) family! Please, don’t take this show away!!! These characters still have stories to tell!!!!!!
I love that show it made you think but was enjoyable too. All the good shows get cancelled
Such a great show I can’t understand why they would do this
I am part of a group of guys who think Prodigal Son was one of the 3 best shows on TV— and BY FAR— the best Show on Fox. The relationship between father and son IS the whole show— and 9 of us talk about that relationship- and draw parallels to our dads after viewing the last episode. Yes, we’re not 18-49. All 50-60- and we spend more $$ than ANY 18-49 group. Leave it to Fox to slit their own throat by chopping this great piece of TV. A real shame.