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USA Network continues to purge its schedule of scripted TV collection and, appropriately sufficient, that features The Purge. The anthology horror present has been cancelled and gained’t be returning for a 3rd season.
The Purge TV present stars Derek Luke, Max Martini, Paola Nunez, and Joel Allen. Based mostly on the film franchise by James DeMonaco, the drama unfolds in the US, which is beneath totalitarian rule. The story facilities on a 12-hour interval throughout which all crimes, together with homicide, are authorized. The second season explores how a single Purge night time impacts the lives of 4 interconnected characters over the course of the following 364 days, all inevitably main as much as the subsequent Purge.
The second season of The Purge averaged a 0.22 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and 562,000 viewers. Compared to season one, that’s down by 46% and 48%, respectively. Whereas that was an enormous decline, the collection was nonetheless USA’s second-highest-rated scripted series.
USA Community has been shifting away from producing unique scripted collection whereas shifting towards extra unscripted collection and event-style scripted programming.
The Purge is the newest scripted collection cancellation for USA. The channel additionally cancelled Treadstone right this moment and dropped Dare Me a few weeks in the past. This leaves solely the fates of The Sinner and Briarpatch up within the air.
Queen of the South has been renewed for a fifth season and season two of Dirty John (which relocated from Lifetime) is ready to launch on June 2nd.
What do you think? Did you take pleasure in The Purge TV collection? Are you sorry to listen to that there gained’t be a 3rd season?