The American channel ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company, is these days making decisions regarding its schedule for its next season and, for now, it is in an unmerciful spirit: Big Sky and Alaska Daily, two of its series most outstanding, have been canceled and will not produce new episodes for the month of October.
Big Sky had been released in November 2020 at a time when the television industry needed a hit. The pandemic prevented the productions from working completely normally and, luckily for ABC, the series written by a television veteran like David E. Kelley, screenwriter for Ally McBeal or Big little lies, found its audience. One of his incentives? His way of blowing up television conventions by surprisingly killing what should have been the main character in his pilot episode.
The dramatic thriller began with Cody (Ryan Phillippe) on the trail of two missing teenagers after passing a prostitute kidnapper on the highway. His problem was running into a corrupt police officer, officer Rick Legaski (John Carroll Lynch), who would blow his mind after a conversation. Then the fiction focused on Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), the deceased's ex, and Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury), his current lover, who were investigating his disappearance together.
The series, which was reformulated as the episodes progressed with the closing of old cases and the opening of new challenges for Jenny and Cassie, always had one of its main assets in the delayed viewing. But, even after the signing of recognizable faces like Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) and country star Reba McEntire, its stagnation below three million viewers led ABC to cancel the show after three seasons.
Alaska Daily, also from ABC, found itself in the same circumstances. She was linked to two prestigious names such as Tom McCarthy, author of the film Spotlight for which he won the Oscars for best picture and best screenplay, and Hilary Swank, the Oscar-winning actress for both Boys don't cry and Million. dollar baby. In it, Swank played a journalist with an immaculate reputation until she fell out of favor for a story, which led her to accept a writing position in Alaska.
Some correct criticism for being a fiction on free-to-air television in the United States and Hilary Swank's Golden Globe nomination have not been able to compensate for the fact that, compared to Grey's Anatomy or Station 19 with whom she shared a night, her numbers of viewing paled in comparison. The 11 episodes broadcast, which used to gather less than three million viewers in the live broadcast, will be the only ones produced.
Both series were broadcast in Spain through Disney.
