There are only three episodes remaining in the NBC series Constantine. From the
first episode, ‘Non Est Asylum’, notions
that the series would not see a second season on NBC kept coming to mind, and
recently it was disclosed that Constantine was canceled. The rating for the
series are in the upper percentiles and each episode has been entertaining with
witty humor, high tension into dark magic, and original occult adventures into good vs. evil, and all the
other elements that a religious based horror series should possess. So, why
cancel the series? The most likely reason is because of all the creative
elements already mentioned.
While the team crime fighting formula works for series like Grimm, it did nothing for the long
awaited TNT’s
series The Librarians, which has already
been canceled. Both Constantine and the Librarian are loners,
characters known to use the resources around them to solve mysteries. These
resources can include other people, but those people are not part of a team. In
The Librarians there were four too many of them for the series and a great
departure from the successful movies.
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Matt Ryan reprises the role of John Constantine as the character tries to find his own program's creators and show runners, David S. Goyer and Daniel Cerone, after they go missing. If John does not succeed, then the NBC network will have no other choice but to cancel the program.
The web series debuted on January 16, 2015 on the DC Comics official website and YouTube account, in addition to the mid-season premiere on NBC.
Constantine - John Con Noir - Ep. 1: "Trash"
Final season one episodes are:
| Episode 11 | "A Whole World Out There" | January 30, 2015 | |||||
| Episode 12 | "Angels and Ministers of Grace" | February 6, 2015 | |||||
| Episode 13 | "Waiting for the Man" | February 13, 2015 | |||||
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As for ABC’s series Galavant, it has one final episode before its conclusion.
The best guess for the cancellation is that the series is too brawly. It is a
highly entertaining musical with likable characters and great adventures but as
stated above some of the jokes and song lyrics were too brawly and raw for television. The third episode, ‘Two Balls’, ended up
illegally on YouTube until violators of the series copy-rights were asked to
removed it. While many viewers found the series extremely funny, many from
overseas who still have close and rich ties to their past history were probably
offended by the lyrics. This ‘Punch 'N'
Julie’ style of song and dance
may have worked in medieval times where most of the audience were peasants, but
Galavant has proven that with today’s educated audience such television fair is
more suitable for paid cable like Starz, Showtime, or even HBO where people
with more open minds and twisted humor can enjoy it.
Episode 108 is the
season finale and is entitled, ‘It’s All in the Executions’. In it Galavant
enlists King Richard in a plot to kill Kingsley.
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Nicole Beharie and Tom Mison
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On Fox:
While some reviewers
find Sleepy Hollow losing
the appeal that it possess in its first season, some would say, episode 13, ‘Pittura Infamante’, in the series second season has made it a television icon for
best dramatic horror to date. The storylines are original, and while the pair
of supernatural hunters Abbie and Ichabod
(Nicole Beharie and Tom Mison)
sometimes include other members and who
sometimes work on separate cases, it is this duo that makes the series
watchable. There is no doubt for a 2016
renewal for the series.
Speaking of Grimm, the latest member of ‘Team Grimm’ is Sgt. Wu (Reggie Lee). Wu’s
membership into the Nick Burckhardt’s (David Giuntoli’s) group of
hunters has been a slow and painful one, both in terms of physically, after he ate
something Adalind Schade (Claire
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Fans of the character were overjoyed when he was finally
told and shown the truth and in turn join Burckhardt’s team to find and stop
evil Wesens. Nevertheless, as joyful as it is the see Wu finally with the
group, there are aspects of his personality that is unnerving and dark, which
leads one to think he is more than a little unstable, and hides it well, or he
has secrets. Whether these secrets will be helpful or harmful to ‘Team Grimm’
is impossible to tell at this writing.
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