Peacock has been making headlines for some surprise cancellations lately, with the relatively new streaming service scrapping some surprising high-profile shows. Among them are two projects of The diary of vampires alum Julie Plec – a new take on the YA franchise Vampire Academywhich concluded its first season last year, as well as an in-progress adaptation of Aftershock Comics’ Dead day. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter‘s TV’s Top 5 podcastSusan Rovner, the president of entertainment content at NBCUniversal TV and streaming, spoke about the cancellation of both shows, and attributed the decision to the inability to capture their young adult audience.
“I have a history with Julie and Kevin from my Warner days,” Rovner explained. “Both One of us is lying And Vampire Academy, the takeaway was that it was too early to put those shows on the platform. What we realized is we have to get the parents before we get the teens. And I hope that once we get the parents with shows like Poker face and shows as Traitorsthat we like a show Vampire Academy in a few years. The timing was not right. We didn’t have the skills yet to bring in a young adult audience.”
“It was more of a creative decision,” Rovner said of the Dead Day decision. “We ended up thinking this didn’t quite fit the platform. I hope we can come up with another project that will work for the platform; I want to work with them forever.”
What’s Dead day as regards?
Dead day follows an ensemble of characters as they navigate the annual “dead day,” when the dead come back for one night to complete unfinished business, whether that be to celebrate a night back on Earth or to honor the living to torment.
Parrott would serve as an advisory producer on the series, with executive producers also including Ben Fast, Emily Cummins and Lee Kramer, as well as AfterShock Media’s Jon Kramer and David Sigurani.
What’s Vampire Academy as regards?
From executive producers Julie Plec & Marguerite MacIntyre comes a tale of friendship, romance and danger. In a world of privilege and glamour, the friendship of two young women transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter vampire society. One as a mighty Royal, the other as a half-vampire Guardian trained to protect against the ferocious “Strigoi” who threaten to tear their society apart. That is, if royal infighting doesn’t do the work first. The series starred Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore, Andre Dae Kim, J. August Richards, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Rhian Blundell, Jonetta Kaiser and Andrew Liner.
“I don’t think we really left anything out because what was great about nine was that nine felt like a final. I think if we had finished at nine, it could have been a good final,” MacIntyre previously said. ComicBook. com. So it felt like it allowed 10 to be the thing that plays season two and pays some things off and fixes some things. Like the goal is to finish the episode and say, ‘I can’t wait to see where all the these stories go.'”
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