Someone find a really, really large milk carton, because we have some “missing” TV shows to report on!
In these times of “un-renewals” and “disappeared” content, TV shows more than ever have had a tendency to go “missing” after being renewed, or after a finale airs. So, as we do now and again, let’s see if TVLine can help hunt down your MIA favorite.
The “Lost & Found” list below covers three and only three kinds of shows, so read these parameters very closely before you “What about…?” us:
♦ Renewed a long time ago, but it has been crickets 🦗 since.
♦ Last aired more than nine months ago, and there is still no official word on cancellation or renewal.
♦ Has been on midseason “hiatus” for… a while.
Period.
This is not a Renewed/Cancelled scorecard (we have many of those). Far from it. No, this is a recurring status report on select shows that have been out of sight but not out of mind for their extremely patient fans — many of which were suggested to us after our recent Twitter alert.
Peruse the list below and then hit the comments and tell us which TV series you are (still!) impatiently waiting for. And if your favorite “forgotten” show isn’t featured here, be sure to check out our Broadcast, Cable and Streaming Renewal Scorecards — or email InsideLine@tvline.com to issue a “BOLO” and we’ll (maybe) hunt it down for ya!
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ALEX RIDER (Freevee)
Image Credit: Freevee Last aired: Season 2 of the British spy thriller dropped Dec. 3, 2021, on Amazon’s ad-supported Freevee service.
Current status: Production on Season 3 began Jan. 19, 2023, in the UK and Malta — and was still underway, last we checked.
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THE ALIENIST (TNT)
Image Credit: Courtesy of TNT Last aired: The Season 2 (aka Angel of Darkness) finale aired Aug. 9, 2020, TNT.
Current status: This limited series was based on a series of crime novels by Caleb Carr, and there isn’t (yet) a third book to adapt at this time. Plus, with TNT out of the original scripted TV game… who’s to say where any third season would land?
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ALL RISE (OWN)
Image Credit: Courtesy of OWN Last aired: Rescued by OWN after CBS cancelled the legal drama after two seasons, All Rise aired the first half of Season 3 from June 7 to August 9, 2022.
Current status: The current official word is that Season 3 will resume “this year.”
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THE A WORD (Sundance TV)
Image Credit: BBC One Last aired: The six-episode third season aired in Spring 2020 across the pond (two-and-a-half years after Season 2), and at the end of 2020 Stateside on Sundance TV.
Current status: There is no word one way or the other on a fourth season (“series”), but a Ralph & Katie spinoff following the characters played by Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy and their first year of married life was announced in August 2020 and began filming six half-hour episodes in February 2022.
UPDATE: Ralph & Katie premiered across the pond on Oct. 5 on BBC One (watch trailer); TVLine is checking into any Stateside release plans.
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BOOMERANG (BET)
Image Credit: The 'Boomerang' cast (Courtesy of BET) Last aired: The Season 2 finale aired in April 2020.
Current status: In August 2021, exec producer Lena Waithe announced the end of the feature film’s sequel series by sharing on Instagram, “We had such a great run for two seasons” and wishing everyone “Lots of love and light as we come to the end of the road.”
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CARNIVAL ROW (Prime Video)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Prime Last aired: Season 1 was released Aug. 30, 2019; Season 2 was ordered ahead of the premiere, in July 2019.
Current status: Season 2 has already been filmed; as of September 2022, there was still no word on a premiere timetable.
UPDATE: The 10-episode second — and final — season premiered Feb. 17, 2023 and ended March 17.
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CONDOR (Epix)
Image Credit: Epix Last aired: Season 2 of the former Audience Network thriller series aired in August 2020 — on Epix, which had acquired its first two seasons.
Current status: Epix announced in early February 2022 that it is in development with a third season of Condor (as well as a Season 2 for Chapelwaite).
UPDATE: No updates last we checked (February 2023).
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CRUEL SUMMER (Freeform)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Freeform Last aired: Season 1 of the Freeform anthology series aired April 20 through June 15, 2021 (the day on which Season 2 was ordered).
Current status: Season 2, which features a brand new cast and mystery, is on track for a “Summer 2023” premiere.
UPDATE: Season 2 will premiere June 5.
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THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT (HBO Max)
Image Credit: Courtesy of HBO Max Last aired: Season 2 of the darkly comedic thriller was released May 26, 2022.
Current status: “We did two — we should probably be done,” Emmy-nominated star and EP Kaley Cuoco told People.com last May. “I think I’ve been outnumbered with that thought; there’s definitely interest in doing a third season. I think for me, at this moment, the plane has landed.” And if Flight Attendant were to return for Season 3, Cuoco — who has multiple other projects (and her first child) in the hopper — said it likely would be in the distant future: “Some of my favorite shows on TV take some time to come back, and then I get very excited about a new season.”
An HBO Max source told TVLine that “no official decision” has been made about a third season.
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THE GILDED AGE (HBO)
Image Credit: Courtesy of HBO Last aired: Season 1 of the historical drama from Downton Abbey‘s Julian Fellowes aired from Jan. 24 to March 21, 2022; Season 2 was ordered mere weeks after its debut.
Current status: Production on Season 2 wrapped in mid-November. A premiere date remains TBA.
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HEELS (Starz)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Starz Last aired: Season 1 of the family/wrestling drama aired Aug. 15 through Oct. 10, 2021; renewal came a few weeks later.
Current status: In an Inside of You podcast appearance recorded in September 2022, series co-lead Stephen Amell said, “Heels is coming out eventually,” hopefully in the “first or second quarter of 2023.” (According to Amell, the delay is the result of Lionsgate splitting from Starz, which they acquired back in 2016 for $4.4 billion.)
UPDATE: Heels will return with Season 2 on Friday, July 28.
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HIGHTOWN (Starz)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Starz Last aired: Season 2 aired Oct. 17 through Dec. 26, 2021; Season 3 was ordered two months later.
Current status: I am hearing that the Monica Raymund and James Badge Dale-led “Cape Cod” crime drama will return during the back half of 2023.
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HOME BEFORE DARK (Apple TV+)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple TV+ Last aired: Season 2 of the mystery drama — which was ordered ahead of the series’ premiere — streamed June 11 through August 13, 2021.
Current status: We keep asking, and there are no updates.
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HUNTERS (Prime Video)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Prime Last aired: Season 1 was released on Feb. 21, 2020; that August, Season 2 was greenlit. As of October 2021, the U.S. leg of filming was complete and the production was headed over to Europe.
Current status: Season 2 — which added to its cast Jennifer Jason Leigh (Atypical) as a top Nazi hunter, Tommy Martinez (Good Trouble), Emily Rudd (Fear Street, Dynasty) and Udo Kier (The Kingdom) — still has no release date (as of October 2022).
UPDATE: The second — and final — season was released on Jan. 13, 2023.
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THE LAST KINGDOM (Netflix)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Last aired: Season 4 of the British historical fiction was released in April 2020; two months later, Netflix ordered a fourth season — which in April 2021 was announced to be the final season.
Current status: The fifth and final season released March 9, 2022.
UPDATE: A two-hour wrap-up movie, titled Seven Kings Must Die, began filming in January 2022 and wrapped on March 19. It was released on April 14.
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MASTER OF NONE (Netflix)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Last aired: Season 1 of the Emmy-winning comedy from co-star Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang dropped Nov. 6, 2015… Season 2 followed a year-and-a-half later… and a pandemic- (and other things-) delayed Season 3 arrived a full four years after that, in May 2021.
Subtitled Moments in Love, Season 3 no longer focused on Ansari’s Dev, but instead, on Denise (played by Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe).
Current status: Netflix says that the series has not been cancelled.
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MIRACLE WORKERS (TBS)
Image Credit: Courtesy of TBS Last aired: Season 3 (aka “Oregon Trail”) aired its finale in September 2021; seven weeks later, the anthology comedy was renewed for Season 4.
Current status: It was announced in October 2022 that Season 4 (aka “End Times”) would premiere on Jan. 16, 2023 — though just days prior to that date, TVLine learned that the dystopian season had been delayed. There have been no updates since.
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THE NEVERS (HBO)
Image Credit: Courtesy of HBO Last aired: The first half of the 12-episode first season concluded on May 16, 2021.
Current status: Season 1B — which began filming in June 2021 and wrapped that December — was originally pencilled in to premiere in 2022.
UPDATE: The Nevers will no longer finish its season on HBO, and instead the entirety of Season 1 (including six never-seen episodes!) will stream on Tubi (get release dates) and Roku (no dates set yet).
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NURSES (NBC)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Global TV Last aired: Season 1 of the Canadian medical drama aired Stateside on NBC from December 2020 through February 2021.
Current status: Though at least one additional season has aired in Canada (in Summer 2022), NBC has no plans to give it a Stateside home.
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PERPETUAL GRACE, LTD. (Epix)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Epix Last aired: Season 1 finale aired Aug. 4, 2019; a shortened second and final season was ordered in January 2020.
Current status: Series co-creator responded to the qualified renewal by tweeting “under these terms, never going to happen.” As such, sources confirm that the series has completed its run.
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THE POLITICIAN (Netflix)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Last aired: Season 2 of the Ben Platt-led dramedy released all seven episodes back on June 19, 2020.
Current status: Season 3 has not officially been ordered — but there is no real rush, either. As show boss Ryan Murphy once explained to Collider, “Where Season 2 ends, what I would love to do is take a couple of years off and have Ben Platt get a little bit older for his final race. That would obviously be a presidential race, right? That’s always what we had designed, and I think that’s what our plan is…. Ben is young, so I want to wait a couple of years to figure out how we age him up a little bit.”
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THE PREMISE (Hulu)
Image Credit: Courtesy of FX on Hulu Last aired: Season 1 of the B.J. Novak-hosted anthology — which tackled hard-hitting issues such as gun control, identity, social justice, sex, capitalism, revenge, love, fame and social media — streamed via (what was then known as) “FX on Hulu” from Sept. 16 to Oct. 7, 2021.
Current status: There will be no Season 2.
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RATCHED (Netflix)
Image Credit: Sarah Paulson in 'Ratched' (Courtesy of Netflix) Last aired: The Sarah Paulson-led One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “origin story” developed by Ryan Murphy received a two-season order right out of the gate; Season 1 dropped on Sept. 18, 2020.
Current status: Paulson reportedly told our sister site Variety in the summer of 2022 that she doesn’t know if a second season is in the works or not.
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RUN THE WORLD (Starz)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Starz Last aired: Season 1 of the Starz comedy aired from May 16 to July 11, 2021; a month later, Season 2 was greenlit.
Current status: Season 2 will premiere on May 26, 2023.
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SOULMATES (AMC)
Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC Last aired: Season 1 of the Black Mirror-ish anthology ended in November 2020 — three months after it had scored an early Season 2 renewal.
Current status: AMC has no updates at this time (February 2023).
UPDATE: The sci-fi anthology has been cancelled, reversing its Season 2 renewal.
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SPIN THE WHEEL (Fox)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Fox Last aired: Season 1 finale aired Sept. 5, 2019.
Current status: No decision has been made on the fate of the Dax Shepard-hosted game show, which is nowhere to be seen on Fox’s 2021-22 schedule.
UPDATE: Nope, it hasn’t been cancelled.
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SUPER PUMPED (Showtime)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Showtime Last aired: Season 1 of the anthology series — which was subtitled The Battle For Uber, and based on Mike Isaac’s book of the same name — aired Feb. 27 through April 20, 2022. Ahead of the series’ premiere, Super Pumped was renewed for a second season, which is to follow Isaac’s forthcoming book about the rise of Facebook.
Current status: Showtime, which recently “disappeared” Super Pumped Season 1 from its streaming platform, has no updates to share at this time.
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TABOO (FX)
Image Credit: FX Last aired: Season 1 aired Stateside on FX in January/February 2017; Season 2 was ordered that March.
Current status: The last time FX chief Jon Landgraf was asked about the BBC-produced period drama (in February 2019), he listed it among several between-seasons series that were “still active” at the cabler. Much more recently, Steven Knight — who co-created the series with Tom Hardy, who in recent years has been busy with, among other things, two Venom movies — told Collider in November 2021 that with six of eight episodes written, “we are trying to get the stars aligned so that we can get our star back on set.”
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THE TERROR (AMC)
Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC Last aired: The Season 2 (aka Infamy) finale aired Oct. 14, 2019.
Current status: AMC had no updates to share last we checked.
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THIS CLOSE (Sundance TV)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance TV Last aired: Season 2 finale aired Sept. 21, 2019
Current status: Sundance had no updates to share last we checked. (Co-star Shoshannah Stern meanwhile is now busy as a member of the writing staff for Disney+’s Hawkeye spinoff, Echo.)
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TRANSPLANT (aired Stateside on NBC)
Image Credit: Courtesy of CTV Last aired Stateside: NBC aired the Canadian (CTV) medical drama’s Season 2 finale on July 16, 2022.
Status: Season 3 aired in Canada September 2022 through February 2023, but NBC has no plans to give those episodes a U.S. home. There has been no word yet (as of April 2023) if CTV has found a new U.S. partner for the series.
UPDATE: With the WGA strike clogging the pipeline, NBC changed course and picked up Seasons 3 and 4 of Transplant, to begin airing in early 2024.
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UPLOAD (Prime Video)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Last aired: The sci-fi dramedy’s seven-episode sophomore run was released in March 2022 (nearly two years after its Season 1 drop); Season 3 was greenlit not long after, in May 2022. And while there “was a bit of a COVID issue” with Season 2, “where it took the same amount of time to make less episodes,” series lead Robbie Amell told TVLine, “Fingers crossed we can do a bit more” in Season 3.
Current status: Nothing to report, but Season 3 wrapped filming in November and will hopefully arrive sometime in 2023.
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WARRIOR (HBO Max)
Image Credit: Cinemax Last aired: Season 2 of the martial arts crime drama ended in December 2020, on Cinemax — the cabler’s final original series before ending its production of original programming.
Current status: In April 2021, a third season was ordered, to stream on HBO Max. Asked by a concerned fan about its status, showrunner Jonathan Tropper shared in February 2022 on Twitter, “Alive and well. We start shooting in July” (in South Africa).
UPDATE: Season 3 will premiere with its first two episodes on Thursday, June 29; watch trailer above.
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WARRIOR NUN (Netflix)
Image Credit: Netflix Last aired: Season 1 of the fantasy drama was released in July 2020; seven weeks later, Netflix ordered a second season of the “demon-fighting nuns.”
Current status: In early December 2021, showrunner Simon Barry tweeted that — after being slowed down by at least six months of pandemic-related delays— he had screened all episodes of Season 2, which he teased to be a “Holy Hand Grenade” aka “worth the wait.”
UPDATE: Season 2 was released Nov. 10, 2022… and the series was cancelled a month later.
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WE ARE LADY PARTS (Peacock)
Image Credit: Courtesy of Peacock Last aired: Season 1of the British sitcom streamed May 20 through June 24, 2021; a Season 2 renewal followed that November.
Current status: As a guest on our sister site THR’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, Susan Rovner, Chairman of Entertainment Content for all of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, said that because of creator Nida Manzoor’s availability, it will be “a little while” until Season 2 is done.
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THE WONDER YEARS (ABC)
Image Credit: Courtesy of ABC Last aired: The ABC reboot’s freshman finale aired May 18, 2022.
Current status: After the family comedy went missing on ABC’s midseason schedule announcement in November 2022, the network revealed that the second season has been pushed to Summer 2023.
UPDATE: Season 2 will premiere Wednesday, June 14 (leading out of new episodes of Judge Steve Harvey).