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The staff has been benched. Disney+ has cancelled The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers sequence so viewers received’t be seeing a 3rd season.
A comedy-drama continuation of the Nineties films, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers TV present was developed by movie creator Steve Brill, Josh Goldsmith, and Cathy Yuspa. The present stars Lauren Graham, Emilio Estevez, Josh Duhamel, Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Julee Cerda, Luke Islam, Bella Higginbotham, Taegen Burns, Kiefer O’Reilly, De’Jon Watts, Naveen Paddock, and Josh Duhamel. Set in present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks youth hockey staff has developed from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse staff. After 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Noon) is unceremoniously lower from the Ducks, he and his mother, Alex (Graham), and good friend Nick Gaines (Simkins) got down to construct their very own staff of misfits — to problem the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs tradition of youth sports activities right this moment. With the assistance of the Ducks’ authentic coach, Gordon Bombay (Estevez), they rediscover the thrill of taking part in only for love of the sport.
The present premiered in March 2021 and was renewed for a second season in August of that 12 months. In November, it was revealed that Estevez’s second-season choice wasn’t picked up resulting from inventive variations and a contract dispute. A month later, Duhamel joined the forged. The second season launched final September, a 12 months and a half after the primary season’s premiere.
The cancellation isn’t an enormous shock because the sequence wasn’t an enormous hit for Disney+. Also, sports activities exhibits are costly as a result of they’re sophisticated and tough to movie.
Peter Rice was an enormous champion for the sequence. However, the previous Chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content for The Walt Disney Company, was fired in June regardless of having not too long ago renewed his contract by 2024. The Wall Street Journal reported:
A senior Disney official cited Mr. Rice’s determination to resume two struggling exhibits on the Disney+ streaming service — The Mighty Ducks and Big Shot — as examples of questionable deal-making. Both exhibits price greater than $50 million and neither had proven the kind of success that merited further seasons, this official stated.
But folks accustomed to Mr. Rice’s pondering countered that the exhibits had been renewed partially as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic had made it difficult to develop and produce new programming and each had been properly reviewed.
Also, Mr. Rice believed there wasn’t sufficient stability on the platform and it was essential to have some consistency so viewers wouldn’t get pissed off at sequence coming and going, they stated.
Big Shot has additionally been cancelled after two seasons.
What do you assume? Did you benefit from the Mighty Ducks TV sequence? Are you disillusioned that this Disney+ present received’t get a 3rd season?