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One of many many community reveals to face the axe in 2021 has been Prodigal Son, the highly-rated crime drama sequence from Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver. For the reason that announcement of the cancelation, fan campaigns have sprung as much as save the present together with pitches to Netflix to just do that.
To recap, Prodigal Son was one in every of Fox’s largest reveals in recent times. Headlined by Michael Sheen and Tom Payne, the procedural drama ran for 2 seasons earlier than being canceled in May 2021.
Netflix has never shown Prodigal Son with it lately being put onto HBO Max and hasn’t made it to Netflix exterior america both.
There have been quite a few individuals who point out that the show had plenty of legs past a season three and one fan of the present reached out to us to cowl the rising motion.
Pointing us to a web site set up to help efforts to avoid wasting the present, Elisa DeCarlo instructed us:
““Prodigal Son” resonates with followers, notably the concentrate on the principle character, Malcolm Shiny, who visibly manages psychological sickness in a non-stigmatizing approach. With a lead character who suffers from C-PTSD and nervousness dysfunction, and a supporting solid that contains a majority of actors of coloration together with two Asian actors, the timing of the cancellation itself raises eyebrows because it occurred throughout Psychological Well being Consciousness month and AAPI historical past month. Fox even continued to advertise the POC on “Prodigal Son” in its advertising whereas concurrently canceling the present. Fox has even been operating advertisements for the present in latest weeks!”
By way of numerous petitions throughout the web, the present’s following has rallied behind revival efforts. The most important petition we’ve seen is quickly closing in on 50,000 signatures on Change.org. Fan campaigns are nothing new after all. Netflix has had loads of petitions aimed toward it all through the years with by far the most important being Anne with an E which surpassed 1.5 million signatures.
Might and can Netflix revive Prodigal Son?
Whereas within the early days of the Netflix Authentic efforts, we’d’ve given a a lot better likelihood of Prodigal Son discovering a house on Netflix however these days, it’s extremely unlikely.
Netflix has centered by itself model new titles.
Additionally, one of many key variations for this present in comparison with Netflix’s previous revival efforts is that it has no inside knowledge on how properly the present performs.
Within the case of each Designated Survivor and Lucifer, each have been streaming on Netflix internationally. That’s not been the case with Prodigal Son which has streamed on different platforms because the present first debuted.
There are additionally points to deal with akin to licensing for the primary two seasons being dotted round which means Netflix would possible wrestle to have the total assortment making a lower than best state of affairs for Netflix subscribers.
Our greatest guess could be that if it’s to be revived anyplace, it’d be HBO Max however there’s been no indication of a transfer akin to this thus far. With that mentioned, Michael Sheen’s involvement apparently prompted manufacturing points which might imply a revival is close to unimaginable.
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