STUMPTOWN Canceled By ABC Despite Initial Season 2 Order As Network Cites COVID-19 As Culprit

STUMPTOWN Canceled By ABC Despite Initial Season 2 Order As Network Cites COVID-19 As Culprit

ABC's television crime drama Stumptown, which is based on a Greg Rucka comic and stars Maria Hill actress Cobie Smulders, has been canceled by the network after the show was initially renewed.

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By MarkJulian - Sep 16, 2020 09:09 PM EST
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The latest negative development stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic is for television shows that were initially renewed to have that decision reversed. ABC's Stumptown is the latest show to fall victim to that trend as the cast and crew were reportedly just notified earlier today that a second season would not be happening at ABC.

Stumptown premiered on September 25, 2019, and concluded its 18-episode first season run on March 25, 2020. The initial season 2 renewal was handed down by ABC on May 21, 2020. However, the ongoing pandemic delayed filming and the network eventually realized that the second season would not be ready for the fall TV season.The show's cancellation comes as a bit of a shock after the first season received favorable reviews from critics and performed solidly in ratings.

Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth created the Stumptown limited comic series in November 2009 for Oni Press.The initial miniseries consisted of 4 issues that eventually led to a second, 5-issue miniseries in 2012. Rucka and Southwork decided to turn the comic into an ongoing series in 2014.The comic was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2011.

Several reports state that Stumptown's producers are currently shopping the series to other outlets.

Based on the "Stumptown" graphic novel series, “Stumptown” follows Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders) – a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt, and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon.

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dracula
dracula - 9/16/2020, 10:08 PM
never saw it, but if it was good, sucks.
To shows cancelled too soon
LlamaLord
LlamaLord - 9/16/2020, 10:21 PM
@dracula - Oh man, Alcatraz and Terra Nova sure bring back memories...
dracula
dracula - 9/16/2020, 10:26 PM
@Ayush - yeah both great, then theres Firefly, the show everyone points to when talking shows cancelled way too soon. Also Jericho, probably the only show that a actually had a successful revival campaign even if it was only 8 extra episodes
rebellion
rebellion - 9/16/2020, 10:43 PM
@dracula - terra nova was garbage. It went to hell after 2 eps
madhombre
madhombre - 9/17/2020, 3:23 AM
@dracula - Whiskey Cavalier dammit!
Yes, I was the one watching it..;)
dracula
dracula - 9/17/2020, 3:35 AM
@madhombre - never saw it. here another classic


seriously how did a show with so many people who within a few years after the cancelation would go on to be big names in comedy, fail.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/17/2020, 3:55 AM
@madhombre - didn’t realize it got canceled. I’m glad the everybody hates Chris guy did something post walking dead but man for Ol girl it was t post walking dead, it was walk out on walking dead. Wanted that Andrew Lincoln money. I get that I do. I would say hindsight is 20/20 so can’t even blame her.
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 9/16/2020, 10:14 PM
That’s gotta suck, knowing your show was good enough to get picked up again but because of something completely out of your control it gets cancelled. That’s really a shame
JamesPunn
JamesPunn - 9/16/2020, 10:22 PM
@Ha1frican - The Society. Teen mystery melodrama that turns into an actually great show with a huge cliffhanger. It got renewed for season two, and it was just getting ready to film when Netflix gave it the axe because of corona.
Roodi
Roodi - 9/16/2020, 10:24 PM
[frick]ing shit! But I was waiting on the reunion with the mom.
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 9/16/2020, 10:35 PM
Sucks but book her for second season of Falcon & Winter Soldier and give her something more substantial to do.
dracula
dracula - 9/16/2020, 10:40 PM
@TheBlueMorpho - wonder if they ever considered adding her to Agents Of Shield, not like she was a major player in any movie, and she is more of a tv actor.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/17/2020, 3:39 AM
@dracula - I liked AoS and she did pop upon it in the Perlmutter days but I figure she was at least trying to transition from tv to film. To be fair she’s been in some of the most successful films of all time! But I wouldn’t say she’s a household name thanks to that.
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 9/17/2020, 9:57 AM
@dracula -

She should have been the 2nd or 3rd lead in that show. Now I know comics Maria Hill to some is very unlikeable but they could have re-invented the character in that series.
dracula
dracula - 9/17/2020, 10:50 AM
@TheBlueMorpho - edward james almos is cool, but if it was comic Hill, bet she would have been in charge of the second shield
Vanillain
Vanillain - 9/16/2020, 11:42 PM
OT:

Despite the critical census, it looks like Disney might be raking in a crap ton of cash from Mulan:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nearly-onethird-of-us-households-purchased-mulan-on-disney-for-30-fee-data-221410961.html
kitheka
kitheka - 9/16/2020, 11:49 PM
@Vanillain - if true, it would be interesting if this can be a sustainable model.
dracula
dracula - 9/17/2020, 12:36 AM
@Vanillain - Well most of disney's remakes are souless crap but make money, answer, kids want to watch
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 9/17/2020, 1:31 AM
@Vanillain - Wow... a $261m domestic take that they don’t have to split with theaters would be huge. Leaving aside Tenet’s tepid $30m domestic gross so far (which they do have to split with theaters), that crushes a lot of huge earners in profits. You probably have to make around $400m gross domestically in theaters to be in the same ballpark.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/17/2020, 3:48 AM
@Chewtoy - it deserves a cbm article.

This result along with Tenet’s may have buried theaters once for all...
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 9/17/2020, 4:32 AM
@TheWalkingCuban - It surely shakes up any conversation about the future of movie-going. How do you sit on The Black Widow waiting for things to improve when you have that kind of option ready to go instead?
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/17/2020, 4:51 AM
@Chewtoy - exactly, i wonder how BW would compare on Disney plus. There seems to be hesitation nonetheless from Disney to put it on the app, and it could be because they were very confident in its theatrical box office, but now with the home box office (sorry HBO), and particularly with so many projects on hold in the MCU, I think they need to try it.

I used to love predicting and analyzing box office so this would be a change for me too. Like, what would be a home box office equivalent to theaters? Can movies still get to where they make a billion? Are movies gonna have better or worse legs than each other? Will they even have legs? Will there be repeat viewings? Does it matter, if it’s all Disney’s not theaters’? We’ve seen Trolls: World Tour and Bill and Ted do theater and streaming, but this Mulan was the first one for Disney Plus to skip theaters (domestically) for cash (unlike Artemis Fowl) and it surely won’t be the last. Question is will BW do it? I want them to Disney plus it cuz I’m ready for the MCU to get back on track.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 9/17/2020, 4:59 AM
@TheWalkingCuban - If it’s just the question of Black Widow, I would definitely go with the Disney+ route... I already suggested that if they change anything, they just push it back to a Christmas Day Disney+ release, advertise the hell out of it and sell gift cards in stores that can be redeemed for it. If these numbers are right, it would be huge.

But I do think that it would be better for the industry and Disney in the long run if they could return theater-going to pre-Covid levels, so I imagine that they have to weigh the damage they could do if they go that route. And theater owners would obviously hate them for life.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/17/2020, 5:18 AM
@Chewtoy - agree on both counts I just think the writing’s on the wall, for now at least, that theaters ain’t Gon work. Cali and NY reopening theaters will lead to a spike that will lead to closing again. Maybe after elections...
Battabing
Battabing - 9/17/2020, 5:29 AM
@Vanillain - If that's true, where's Disney's headlines. They wouldn't stay quiet about that.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 9/17/2020, 5:52 AM
@Battabing - I think it’s a big enough deal that they probably need to have plenty of internal meetings about it before going forward with any future release strategies. As stated, it could really negatively impact theater operations, and do they want that?
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 9/17/2020, 12:49 AM
Another generic crime procedural cancelled?
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 9/17/2020, 1:02 AM
It was a really strong first season, with great characters and a great cast. This news sucks, but hopefully they can put together a deal to move the show elsewhere.
newhire13
newhire13 - 9/17/2020, 1:35 AM
Ugh, Freaking Covid
TheCoonII
TheCoonII - 9/17/2020, 1:52 AM
So it won't be ready for the fall why can't n they just run it when they can get it done ?
JDL
JDL - 9/17/2020, 5:57 AM
@TheCoonII - It wasn't going to ready till April from what I've read.
TheCoonII
TheCoonII - 9/17/2020, 7:22 AM
@JDL - So? We have to wait like a whole year for a new season of anything on Netflix I didn't even watch this show I'm just saying this seems like a weird way to handle this
JDL
JDL - 9/17/2020, 8:45 PM
@TheCoonII - I'll agree it's a tad weird. They would have lost a LOT of money on this show if they had continued.

1) It's the kind of show that's severely cost impacted by covid. Production costs were about to skyrocket.

2) A good deal of S1 goodwill would have been eroded by April.

3) April is a bad bad month to debut an expensive show. May and June would have been downhill from there as far as ratings go.

4) It would have been a short season.

The logical thing would have been to delay it a year but I have a feeling they couldn't or wouldn't do that.
Polaris
Polaris - 9/17/2020, 1:55 AM
Same thing happened with a couple netflix shows, it sucks
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