Vinyl TV show; canceled, no season two. (Image via HBO.)
The music has stopped. The Vinyl TV show on HBO has been cancelled. This reverses the decision HBO made to renew Vinyl for a second season, on February 18, 2016. Set in the 1970s New York City music scene, the drama stars Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, a record label president who is trying to save his company and his soul without destroying everyone in his path.
The Vinyl TV series cast also includes Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, P.J. Byrne, J.C. MacKenzie, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Juno Temple, Jack Quaid, James Jagger, and Paul Ben-Victor. Created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen, and Terence Winter, HBO describes Vinyl as featuring, “the sex- and drug-addled music business of the early 1970s at the dawn of punk, disco and hip-hop.”
This is not Bobby Cannavale’s first one-and-done TV show. He also starred as Trevor Pierce in the 2009 reboot of Rob Thomas’s Cupid TV series, which was cancelled after one season on ABC.
Olivia Wilde, who played his wife Devon Finestra on Vinyl, played Jenny Reilly on The Black Donnellys, which NBC pulled from the air during its first season. The network then made the remaining episodes available for streaming on NBC.com, before it cancelled the drama series.
TV Line reports HBO’s statement:
“After careful consideration, we have decided not to proceed with a second season of Vinyl,” HBO said in a statement. “Obviously, this was not an easy decision. We have enormous respect for the creative team and cast for their hard work and passion on this project.”
The Vinyl cancellation comes two and a half months after news broke that Terence Winter would not return for the second season, due to “creative differences.” Scott Z. Burns had been reportedly tapped as showrunner for Vinyl, season two.
What do you think? Did you watch the first season of HBO’s Vinyl TV series? Are you disappointed that Vinyl has been cancelled? Do you think Vinyl should have been renewed for a second season?
Please Please Please bring Vinyl back!!! It was good! I totally enjoyed the show! It was a good concept and good acting!
Please HBO! Reconsidere your decision! Or producers, find another way to continue! Go to Netflix or something like that…. we want a 2nd session!
Big, big, big mistake to cancel this show. This was a show with almost everything in it: great acting, good actors and a story with depth. But I think, that HBO is going for the big money….again. Such a shame
Yesterday I said this on another article having to do with Vinyl. Today I’m saying the same thing here. Please Being Vinyl Back! This show is amazing, and it gives a raw, hard, fresh, energetic, and exciting feeling with an enormous maximum amount of energy and essence of rock and roll! The cast, music, setting, and story are all fantastic! Plus there’s ALOT of loose ends that NEED to be tied up! More on The Nasty Bits carreer, what new band Jamie Vine will find after she was fired from The Nasty Bits, more on Gary’s (Xavier’s) career, what became… Read more »
Season 2 please !
What a great first season from Vinyl. Standout performances all round, but Bobby Cannavale in particular….he ate up the screen. The episode where went on a bender with his “old friend” is excellent!! To find out this series has been cancelled, is the reason for this comment. I was really excited about the prospect of a second season and the plot and character development. I absolutely loved the way musical artists from the past were used to convey the story. A way must be found to commission another season!!!
Am also very disappointed this series was cx….loved the music and wild past times of lives we all wanted to live!
It sucks that they cancelled Vinyl. What a great show. Maybe Showtime could pick it up!
Awesome show. Bring it back. Watched the whole season and loved it…
I am tired of large so-called “Entertainment” companies who think more about politics and money than want their audience wants. “Vinyl” was hard, true-full and raw. Please reconsider your decision and think of your audience for once. Thank you.
HBO are idiots for cancelling. Ditto best since Boardwalk. That’s why most of what I watch now is Showtime as they her good old and NEW shoes!
I am very disappointed that Vinyl was cancelled. I was looking forward to season 2.
Bobby Cannavale was the show!
I rather enjoyed the show Vinyl. Ray Ramono was really good in it.
I just heard this. I’m depressed this was a phenomenal show. It had a great cast and direction. I’m getting so disgusted with networks pulling this crap. I started watching Pan Am cancelled, Game of Silence, cancelled. Every time I like a show it’s sure to be cancelled. I’m about ready to go back to rabbit ears and cancel cable and just watch Apple TV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Screw those people at HBO.
I was originally drawn to “Vinyl” as a big music fan, but it took several episodes to get into the series. The feature length pilot was totally overblown and with so many self-absorbed characters it was hard to find any one to root for. Bobby Cannavale gave a bravura performance as Richie Finestra, but Finestra’s pattern of abuse quickly became predictable. The most relate-able characters were Zak Yankovich (Ray Romano) and Lester Grimes (Ato Essandoh), who act as somewhat of a moral center in the series. A lot of the characters felt like they were yanked out of other Martin… Read more »
This was the best new show HBO had produced since Boardwalk Empire, (Game of Thrones included). Big mistake for HBO.
I do agree, this is the second week for Roadies copycats? HBO needs to reconsider and bring Vinyl back!
Please let me start off by saying I’m not 20 something. I’m 69 yrs old. Sometimes, sometimes a movie comes along that is unexpectedly life changing. Vinyl (although “only” a Tv series) was such a thing. “12 Angry Men” was such a movie. If you were a teenager in the 50’s and saw this movie and didn’t want to be a lawyer, there was something wrong with you. Likewise, Paul Newman’s “The Verdict” awakened the same passion in young people. Vinyl’s episode “EAB” had that great, and truely rare, moment. The scene where the Nasty Bits’s manager grabbed the guitar,’gave… Read more »