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This is Not an Excellent Day for Television: FOX Just Cancelled “The Exorcist”

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After two awesome seasons, we’re sorry to report today that Fox has pulled the plug on “The Exorcist,“ cancelling the series after just two seasons on the air. It’s the latest show in a long line of popular ones to be cancelled by the network this week, including “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “The Last Man on Earth” and, earlier today, “Lucifer.”

Alfonso Herrera and Ben Daniels starred as the titular exorcists in the Jeremy Slater-created series, which brilliantly tied into William Friedkin’s The Exorcist in its debut season. The season, initially unbeknownst to any of us, centered on an adult Regan MacNeil, played by Geena Davis. Season 2 told a new story entirely its own.

As bummed as we are, we can’t say we’re exactly surprised by the news, as Season 2 of “The Exorcist” wasn’t exactly a ratings success for Fox. They showed faith in the series by renewing it for a second season, despite the under 2 million viewers it was pulling in on a weekly basis, but Season 2’s viewership dipped as low as 1.15 million viewers.

At times like these, it’s hard not to be bitter. But for two seasons, we got some pretty incredible storytelling and a wonderful continuation of a horror classic. On top of that, Alfonso Herrera and Ben Daniels turned in stellar performances for two years as Tomas Ortega and Marcus Keane, and we’re grateful for everything they gave to us.

“The Exorcist” was a damn good television show. And it will be sorely missed.

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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April 19, 2024

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Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Sandra Yi Sencindiver in “Foundation”

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