It’s a bad day for Paramount+ fans, assuming they care about the platform’s shrinking supply of original shows, because The Hollywood Reporter says the streaming service has canceled both its Fatal Attraction reboot and Kiefer Sutherland’s latest spy thriller series Rabbit Hole—with both series now failing to make it past one season. In an annoyingly crucial detail, though, Paramount+ did confirm in an otherwise generic statement statement (nice of them to thank “both series’ entire creative teams”) that both shows will still be available on the platform rather than being deleted and tossed into the sunless void where streaming shows that aren’t available anywhere else go to die. Maybe this means that trend is dying out?
Either way, while Fatal Attraction offered some twists on the premise of the movie to flesh it out for television, it didn’t make much of an impact when it landed on Paramount+ earlier this year. It starred the great Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan (with Fatal Attractions supposedly being the project that she chose instead of the Party Down revival).
Rabbit Hole felt more like a sure-thing, or at least a more easily sellable show, what with its distinct CBS vibes and the presumable appeal of 24 nostalgia. And yet here we are, in a world where not even a show about Kiefer Sutherland pushing back against some kind of massive conspiracy can find enough of an audience to survive on streaming—though, as THR mentions, we don’t know what kind of viewership either of these shows got, so maybe that’s not even a factor here.
These cancellations join Paramount’s big July culling, which included the Grease prequel, Star Trek: Prodigy, Queen Of The Universe, and The Game (they’ve all been removed from the platform), and more recently the iCarly reboot.