TNT’s Will Canceled After One Season

It looks like it’s one and done for Will!

The William Shakespeare drama which aired on TNT has opted to cancel the series after one low-rated season. The drama revolved around Will (Laurie Davidson) as a young poet who arrived onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London. TNT labeled the show as a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s life that is played to a modern soundtrack.

The series averaged just 697,000 total viewers and  0.2 in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic. Olivia DeJonge, Colm Meaney, Mattias Inwood, Jamie Campbell Bower and Ewen Bremner co-starred in the drama from showrunner Craig Pearce  and Shekhar Kapur.

Will was one of a few new series TNT launched this summer.  Animal Kingdom, Good Behavior, The Last Ship, Major Crimes, The Librarians. With that being said, TNT will have no issue in replacing Will.


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