An acclaimed Peacock TV show has been canceled after just one season. The spy thriller series premiered earlier this year in January.
What Peacock TV show has been canceled after just one season?
Emilia Clarke‘s Ponies, which was released a few months back, has now been canceled by Peacock after just one season, reports Variety. The Cold War spy thriller TV show received a staggering critical response upon its debut on the streaming service.
Currently, Ponies holds a phenomenal 94% Tomatometer score and 83% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes. Besides Clarke, the show also featured Haley Lu Richardson, Nicholas Podany, Andrew Richardson, Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, and more.
While the show was well received, the reason for its cancellation remains unclear. Notably, it failed to find a spot in Nielsen’s streaming top 10 charts following its January premiere.
The official logline for Ponies reads, “Moscow, 1977. Two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives.”
Susanna Fogel wrote Ponies while David Iserson served as the showrunner. After the spy thriller’s debut on Peacock, they expressed deep interest in a second season.
During a media interaction, Fogel revealed that Season 2 would eventually explore many changes regarding the protagonists. “They’re different people at the end of the season than they were at the beginning, and in Season 2, they’re just going to have to re-ask themselves these questions about what personally is in it for them and what are the stakes for them, and I think that becomes exciting.”
While the show is now canceled, eager fans who haven’t experienced it yet can currently stream it on Peacock.
