Rowan Atkinson in Man vs. Bee.
Joining the record of “canceled” sequence for 2023 is the Rowan Atkinson comedy sequence Man vs Bee, which received’t be returning for a second season at Netflix.
Released on Netflix in June 2022, Rowan Atkinson, greatest identified for his characters of Mr. Bean and Johnny English, performed a housesitter who arrives at an expensive mansion solely to seek out his time there devoted to searching down a rogue bee.
Claudie Blakley, Jing Lusi, and Julian Rhint-Tutt all starred alongside Atkinson within the sequence, with it getting usually favorable critiques from audiences.
In its evaluation, Decider gave the sequence a “Stream it” score concluding that whereas you need to be in the correct temper, “no one on the planet does slapstick better than Rowan Atkinson and this series shows off all the skills that have made his career so successful.”
Man Vs. Bee has been canceled after a single season
The Sun first reported the information right now of their reasonably clickbaity model titled “Netflix show with A-list star axed after just one series,” whereby they revealed that there are “no plans” for any extra second season.
There’s no phrase on why the present ended, however normally, it comes all the way down to the efficiency of the title on Netflix.
The information of a cancelation doesn’t essentially come as an enormous shock given its quick format and Netflix’s string of cancelations within the comedy style. It nonetheless counts as a cancellation, given the present was by no means labeled a restricted sequence (or a mini-series as they’re generally referred to) in both press releases or throughout the Netflix utility, even to at the present time. That actually left the door open for extra, even when the present is properly concluded by the top.
In complete, Man vs. Bee spent two weeks within the international high 10s selecting up 43.61 million hours in complete, which is commendable given its shorter runtime:
| Week Period | Hours Viewed(M) | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| June nineteenth, 2022 to June twenty sixth, 2022 | 18,210,000 | 10 | 1 |
| June twenty sixth, 2022 to July third, 2022 | 25,400,000 (+39%) | 7 | 2 |
Perhaps most spectacular was the YouTube views the preliminary trailer received, which clocks in at 15 million on the time of publishing. That makes it one of many best-performing trailers in Netflix historical past (which is cited to typically translate to excessive viewership on Netflix), placing it in entrance of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Elite, Enola Holmes, and Our Planet.
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