Flip Up Charlie Season 2 – Image from Netflix
Flip Up Charlie season 1 landed on Netflix on March 15th, 2019 and now a yr later, the present has been canceled in response to sources however not but formally confirmed by Netflix. Right here’s what may’ve been and what we all know concerning the cancelation.
Most characters performed by Idris Elba have been critical roles so that is him deviating for what you’d normally count on and going into comedy. He’s overtly admitted he was “out of his consolation zone” filming this collection which appears at his musical influences (and features a rocking soundtrack).
Right here’s the official synopsis of the present:
A down-and-out DJ plots to rebuild his music profession whereas working as a nanny for his well-known greatest pal’s wild 11-year-old daughter.
The involvement Idris had with the collection expanded into the writing of the present. Talking with Cinema-Magazin he stated, “the story of Flip up Charlie relies on parenting.” He stated a lot of the tales within the present are based mostly on his tales as a dad.
The rationale we carry up Idris’s involvement is that he’s a busy man. Proper now he’s filming Cats with future roles together with Deeper, Three Thousand Years of Longing and The Suicide Squad. That’s not together with any future collection of Luther (scheduled to leave Netflix soon by the way) or Within the Lengthy Run.
In November 2019, Idris Elba was additionally introduced to be concerned in an upcoming Netflix Unique referred to as The Harder They Fall due out in 2020 (though manufacturing is at present delayed due to COVID-19). We’ve additionally heard Idris Elba may also be that includes in an upcoming Growth Studios film.
Flip Up Charlie Season 2 Renewal Standing
Official Renewal Standing: Canceled (final up to date: 11/21/2019)
Netflix has nonetheless but to provide Flip Up Charlie a second season as of November 2019. We have been initially anticipating a call on the way forward for the collection over the summer season however that by no means materialized.
In August 2019, Piper Perabo who performs the position of Sara within the present Tweeted emojis to signify that she was nonetheless hopeful Netflix would renew the collection.
Nevertheless, in April 2020, The Mirror reported that the collection has been axed and received’t be returning for a second season. The supply advised The Mirror that “Netflix and Idris simply didn’t see eye to eye on it.” including “Idris had hoped to get a second season rolling and was even engaged on new concepts however he couldn’t get it to work.”
Simply by way of story, the collection ended on a cliffhanger and ended fairly abruptly too after episode 8. The largest query remaining (spoilers) is whether or not Charlie will select Astrid or Sara.
Idris Elba in Flip Up Charlie (Picture: Netflix)
Maybe it shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock. The present by no means actually entered the zeitgeist and failed to draw an enormous viewers. The present was additionally universally panned by critics.
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