EXCLUSIVE: NBC has determined to not proceed with a 3rd season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee. The information comes greater than a month after the two-hour Season 2 finale aired Feb. 20.
The event just isn’t completely shocking because the sequence, from Common Tv, had been on the bubble. That’s in distinction to final season when Quantum Leap obtained a really early renewal in December 2022.
A follow-up to the unique sequence, which aired on NBC from 1989-93, Quantum Leap is ready in current day. It’s been 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a brand new workforce has been assembled to restart the mission within the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the person who created it.
Along with Lee, the sequence stars Ernie Hudson, Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park and Nanrisa Lee.
Co-showrunners Martin Gero and Dean Georgaris government produced together with Deborah Pratt, Chris Grismer, Alex Berger in addition to Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt who developed the reboot.
In a dialog with Deadline in February, Gero and Georgaris mentioned the Season 2 finale wasn’t written like a sequence finale nevertheless it wraps the motion up in a tidy and uplifting method.
“After we received the early renewal for Season 2, we knew we weren’t going to finish it on a cliffhanger,” Georgaris mentioned. “We have been going to finish it on the primary scene from Season 3, and we’re going to finish it with the 2 characters collectively, however in a method that you just by no means anticipated. And that kind of says to the viewers, ‘have a look at all the good locations we will go.’ So if it appears like a completion for audiences, that’s fantastic. It’s a completion of a part of the journey, however I feel for us, it serves because the launch for the remainder of the journey.”
Georgaris additionally addressed Quantum Leap being on the bubble. “The brand new actuality we’re all getting used to is, it’s not nearly one ranking anymore. It’s not nearly one quantity. There are a number of platforms,” he mentioned. “So the reality is, I feel each showrunner and each present creator resides a bubble existence, for essentially the most half. That simply comes with it. And that’s wonderful.”
In an interview with Deadline in February, Common TV President Erin Underhill additionally acknowledged that “the best way that they wrapped that up is it could possibly be a satisfying ending however additionally they may proceed on” whereas noting {that a} determination was anticipated in April.
Expressing optimism whereas cautioning that rather a lot would rely on NBC’s growth and 2024 drama pilots, she added, “I feel everybody has a variety of help for that present and large fan base by way of that being a serious library title for us.”
Up to now, NBC has renewed 5 of the six Dick Wolf sequence and freshman dramas Discovered and Irrational.
Lynette Rice contributed to this report.