Prime Video Cancels ‘Countdown’ And ‘Butterfly’ After One Season
Prime Video has canceled two of its most up-to-date star-studded releases.
Deadline experiences the streamer has canceled each the Jensen Ackles-led cop drama Countdown and the Daniel Dae Kim spy thriller Butterfly.
The outlet notes Countdown was canceled attributable to “complete world viewership,” although the sequence continues to be within the streamer’s Prime 10 hottest reveals over a month after the finale aired in September.
In Countdown, Ackles starred as former LAPD detective Mark Meachum who will get recruited to a secret job drive of brokers charged with investigating the homicide of a Division of Homeland Safety officer. The sequence additionally starred Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho.
Butterfly premiered Aug. 13 with a binge launch. Based mostly on the graphic novel sequence created by Arash Amel, the sequence starred Kim as an enigmatic former U.S. spy dwelling in South Korea when his previous comes again to hang-out him simply as a sociopathic younger agent (Reina Hardesty) is assigned to kill him.
These cancellations come after the streamer not too long ago canceled the equally short-lived younger grownup drama Motorheads. But it surely hasn’t all been unhealthy information over at Prime Video.
We Had been Liars, Overcompensating and the Bosch spinoff sequence Ballard had been all renewed for second seasons.
However followers seeking to see extra of Ackles will have the ability to see him return to Prime Video for The Boys Season 5 and the upcoming prequel sequence Vought Rising which is able to comply with Soldier Boy in his heyday.
Kim may even be reprising his function as Hearth Lord Ozai in Netflix’s live-action remake of Avatar: The Final Airbender.
Manufacturing on Season 2 not too long ago wrapped however a launch date has not been introduced but.
