‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Canceled After One Season At Netflix

There will be no second season for Dead Boy Detectives. Netflix has canceled the series after one season, sources confirm to Deadline.

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The first season, which dropped on April 25, will now be the final season for the show, which was originally set up at Max.

The news is not entirely surprisng. Dead Boy Detective spent only three weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 for English-language series, peaking at #2 in Week 1 behind phenom Baby Reindeer.

Based on the comics of the same name by Neil Gaiman and part of The Sandman Universe, Dead Boy Detectives followed Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries.

They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

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The 8-episode series also starred Kassius Nelson, Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Yuyu Kitamura, Ruth Connell, Lukas Gage and David Iacono.

Dead Boy Detectives was developed for TV by Steve Yockey, who wrote the first episode and served as showrunner alongside Beth Schwartz as co-showrunner. Greg Berlanti, Yockey, Schwartz, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Gaiman served as executive producers of the series from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. The first episode was executive produced and directed by Lee Toland Krieger.

Variety was first to report the cancellation.

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