NBC’s series “The Hunting Party” premiered back in January 2025, and it came armed with a pretty compelling hook. A high tech prison housing all the most terrifying killers in the world is attacked and all the prisoners are freed, with the series playing out with a Killer-of-the-Week approach as a team hunts down and re-captures new psychopaths each week.
“The Hunting Party” ultimately ended up feeling like “Hannibal”-lite, but it wasn’t without its fun. Unfortunately, the NBC series has now been cancelled after just two seasons.
The Hollywood Reporter notes, “sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Universal Television, which produces the series, will look to find a new home.”
The viewership just wasn’t there, with “The Hunting Party” averaging “3.7 million viewers after a week of DVR playback” for Season 2, “down 13 percent from its first season.”
It’s always possible that “The Hunting Party” could find a new home on a different network or a streaming service, but at this time the series is completely dead in the water.
In the series, which also streamed on Peacock, “a small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”
Melissa Roxburgh, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie, and Sara Garcia star. JJ Bailey created the series and was the show-runner alongside Jake Coburn.
