Renewals and Cancellations: 'Bosch,' Maggie Q, Neil Patrick Harris, and 'Nine Perfect Strangers'

By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 22, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 22, 2024 |

If Mike hadn’t taken the Bupkis news last night, I would’ve led this morning with “Pete Davidson cancels himself.” Missed opportunities. Bupkis, however, is not the only renewed series not moving ahead. Neil Patrick Harris starred in a smug, mediocre series for Netflix called Uncoupled. Netflix canceled it after one season, but Showtime picked it up for a second season. Showtime, however, has changed its mind and is re-cancelling the series.

In renewal news, NBC has renewed all three of its Chicago series — Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago Sanitation — for additional seasons, as well as Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. However, NBC has not renewed Law & Order: Organized Crime. It hasn’t canceled it yet, either, so it’s in limbo for now.

I have never seen a single minute of the Chicago shows.

CBS has picked up a second season of NCIS: Sydney, a very bad show.

Bosch is another one of those shows that reboots itself in order to save money, which is why Bosch and Bosch: Legacy are basically the same show, only instead of the expense of seasons 8 and 9 of Bosch, Amazon only had to pay the expense of seasons one and two of Legacy. Now, they’re spinning off another Michael Connelly character, Renée Ballard (who hasn’t yet appeared in Bosch or Legacy) into another series, where Ballard will work alongside Bosch (Titus Welliver) to solve cold cases. The really cool part of this news is that Maggie Q. will play Ballard. Keep the Dad shows coming, Amazon! Just stop with the ads, OK?

(Related: I just learned today after spotting the above header image that Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott dated for five years in the 2010s.)

The sequel movie to Peaky Blinders is actually happening, and it will actually star Cillian Murphy, and it will actually start filming in September.

Finally, no one asked for a second season of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, but they’re going to make it anyway. The only appeal of the first was its cast, and it looks like they’re going to pull us in with another great cast. Nicole Kidman will be back as the wellness guru who is deeply into psychedelics and will be joined by Henry Golding, Lena Olin, Mark Strong, Annie Murphy, Christine Baranski, and Murray Bartlett, among others. That is an insane cast, which is going to make the disappointment all the more palpable.