‘The Big Leap’ Canceled After One Season
The Big Leap has unfortunately fallen flat. Fox has cancelled the dance show-within-a-dramedy after one season.
Averaging just over 2 million total viewers and a 0.4 demo rating, The Big Leap placed last among all scripted Fox shows this season in the demo, while drawing the third-smallest audience of that pack. And among all of broadcast-TV’s drama launches this season, it drew the smallest audience and the second-worst demo rating.
The Big Leap told the story of a So You Think You Can Dance-like reality show, executive-produced by Nick (played by Scott Foley), that recruited everyday people to perform in a revamped version of Swan Lake. In the Season 1 — and now series — finale, the troupe put on a live show and Nick wondered whether his fictional network bosses would renew the series for Season 2. Unfortunately, Nick has received his answer.
Plenty of Good News for Chicago in 2022 So Far
Despite this unfortunate series cancellation, there is plenty of good news for the Chicago and Illinois production community, here are just a few of the exciting headlines so far this year…
Justified: City Primeval received its greenlight from FX earlier this year, and SCREEN was first to report this series will be shooting in Chicago. Timothy Olyphant will be reprising his role as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens for the limited series, and the inimitable Quentin Tarantino is currently in negotations to direct multiple episodes.
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