Why Did Hbo Cancel Vinyl

The series was cancelled by hbo in 2016 after one season.

Why did hbo cancel vinyl.

Hbo has scrapped plans for a second season of vinyl the 1970s set music biz drama exec produced by martin scorsese and mick jagger. The series starring bobby cannavale as a larger than life. At the 2018 rome film festival scorsese revealed he thinks vinyl wasn t successful because he didn t direct every episode. Vinyl didn t launch in the way we were hoping it would.

Vinyl the serially clichéd rock drama wasn t the worst show hbo has ever produced but was it bad enough to warrant hbo to cancel the show after one season something it almost never does. The decision not to. This reverses the decision hbo made to renew vinyl for a second season on february 18 2016 set in the 1970s new york city. The show starred bobby.

Scorsese s pilot was feature length at 120 minutes and the budget for the entire 10 episode run was estimated at 100 million. It s disappointing but it happens hbo s outgoing head of programming michael lombardo told deadline last month. Vinyl was a costly failure for hbo. Sources say the decision to cancel vinyl rather than reboot the series for season two is part of a move designed to free up new hbo programming head casey bloys to put his stamp on the premium.

Bobby cannavale and olivia wilde in hbo s vinyl the series produced by martin scorsese and mick jagger looked to be a hit but got canceled after one season.