It looks like the ride is over for Taxi Brooklyn. It’s been cancelled by NBC and won’t be returning for a second season this summer.
Taxi Brooklyn follows Cat Sullivan (Chyler Leigh), a tough NYPD Detective who doesn’t let a demotion to foot patrol stop her from trying to find her father’s killer. She finds an unlikely ally in Leo Romba (Jacky Ido), a taxi driver from Marseille. The rest of the cast includes James Colby, Jose Zuniga, Jennifer Esposito, Bill Heck, Ally Walker, and Raul Casso.
The series debuted last June 25th to an unimpressive 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.34 million viewers. The numbers didn’t improve over the course of the season which averaged a 0.9 rating in the demo and 5.0 million viewers.
The season finale of Taxi Brooklyn aired in September 2014 and there hasn’t been any official word from the network regarding the show’s fate. That’s certainly not a good sign, especially if viewers were hoping to see a second season this summer.
Late last year, executive producer Gary Scott Thompson indicated that things weren’t looking good and that they were “running out of time” — likely an indication that the cast contracts would soon expire. Earlier this year, he wrote that, “If history is any indication, we will probably never have official word” [on Taxi Brooklyn’s fate].
When reporting that Leigh had joined the pilot for Supergirl on CBS, TVLine noted that Taxi Brooklyn would not be returning to NBC for a second season.
NBC licensed the show from EuropaCorp Television so their costs are lower. EuropaCorp could potentially produce a second season and find another US outlet to air it but there’s been no word of that. Thompson has said that “it’s up to nbc.”
What do you think? Did you like the Taxi Brooklyn TV show? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Would you watch a second season on another channel?
I would love for there to be a second season especially knowing that it ended so good. How do you just leave us fans in suspense. I personally want to know what happens next. Does Leo gets his family? Was Frankie really on the water taxi? I want to know!!! No one really knows about this show because the word doesn’t get out plus the channel it airs on sucks. I found out about it on Netflix so maybe try another channel or just have it as a Netflix show?
My husband and I really liked this show. I supposed it was violent or sexy enough for people to watch it. If they cancel a show they should at least do a two hour program finishing up the story so we are not hanging.
Great show! Just finished watching the whole series on Netflix. The last episode what such a great cliff hanger, I HAVE to know what happens next! I’d love to see a second season. I’m hooked and was sad to see when I looked for more information, that show was cancelled. Catching on Netflix was the first I had heard of the show, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one that missed when the show aired on TV.
Great show! Clean, with good action and humour. Keep it going
Another example of the kind of poor judgement that NBC continues to make. This was a very entertaining show; not great but better than a lot of that c*^& the put on. Reviewing the promo publicity for their Fall 2015 looks like they have excelled at developing a “must miss” TV lineup.
Look on the bright side. This kind of programming could induce more people to return to reading real books rather than sheepishly looking at TV mediocrity.
Once again a great show canceled before it even gets going. I mean come on. It was original in its own special way. It had cliches but the cliches were done well and had a lot of humor to it. It had a lot of original moments. At least go up to season 7 trust me itll be bigger then law and order because every episode isn’t practicly the same ****.
I discovered Taxi:Brooklyn on Netflix and just watched every episode
I love this show!!!!!
Please! Someone… Continue this program. Th e Characters are awesome!!!!
Please!
I too saw this show on Netflix and watched the whole series over weekend. A terrific show! I gave it 6 stars. Someone should pick this up. This would be a winner for someone like Netflix to continue. This one is good for another 4-5 seasons. Great cast, good story!
I missed the show when it officially aired. I just caught the whole season on Netflix and really liked it. I believe the season finale was really good and would like to see what happens next. Thank you.
Put it as a Netflix series
I loved this show and it’s obvious by the way it ended that they were preparing for another season. That they cancelled it is just horrible. There are WAY too many unanswered question and NBC is doing a great disservice by not resolving them. Please continue it!!! If not hopefully it will get picked up by TNT, USA, TBN, or Netflix.
I’m been waiting patiently for another season of Taxi Brooklyn!
I love the match-up of Cat and Leo. It was one of the best shows on television, and now it’s gone? No, someone, anyone please bring it back.
Maybe Netflix would be interested, or Yahoo in sponsoring the show.
Bring it back. Bring it back
Hi there, I just finished watching season 1 on Netflix, never really noticed a lot of advertisement for this show maybe back when you first were ever going to make it, MAYBE. Then I found it on Netflix started to watch it (as well as other people) and really like it. Was really interested in a second season. Very excited for one and then when I looked it up found this. I don’t think that the ones who advertise/promote for this show ever gave it a real chance. It is definitely worth another season, with a lot more publicity. Then… Read more »
I love ‘taxi brooklyn’. Great cast, always left wanting more. I can’t believe NBC cancelled it. I’m really upset about this. Without a season 2 nobody will know what happens to Niko . NBC lost me as a viewer from all tv shows now.