Perhaps AMC ought to stand for Another Maddening Cancellation. As AMC Networks’ canceling spree continues, the corporate has nixed the animated AMC+ sequence Pantheon after one season, though it had ordered two seasons and the second season had already been produced.
In one other blow to followers, the primary season of Pantheon has been faraway from the AMC+ library, based on Deadline, which first reported the cancellation information.
Created by Craig Silverstein and primarily based on quick tales by award-winning writer Ken Liu, Pantheon“explore[d] the theme of technology through the lens of family, focusing on both the people whose brains have been digitally uploaded, and the loved ones they’ve left behind,” AMC Networks stated in an August 2022 press launch. “Maddie [Katie Chang], a bullied teen, receives help from someone online. It turns out that the person is her deceased father, David [Daniel Dae Kim]. His consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud after an experimental brain scan. Turns out, he’s not the only one.”
The sci-fi drama additionally featured the voices of Paul Dano, Rosemarie DeWitt, Aaron Eckhart, and Taylor Schilling.
As a part of a cost-cutting tax write-down of round $400 million, AMC Networks has additionally referred to as off the second seasons of the AMC drama 61st Street and the AMC+ sci-fi sequence Moonhaven and scrapped the in-development reveals Demascus and Invitation to a Bonfire.
The “programming assessments” of the tax write-down “pertain to a broad mix of owned and licensed content, including legacy television series and films that will no longer be in active rotation on the Company’s linear or digital platforms,” AMC Networks stated in an SEC submitting in December.
Deadline notes a “small chance” that AMC Studios may discover one other streaming dwelling or community for Pantheon Season 2, because the manufacturing division is hoping to do with extra of its canceled sequence.