‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Cancelled After One Season on Netflix

There will be no second season Dead Boy Detectives. Netflix has canceled the series after one season, sources confirm to Deadline.

The first season, which was released on April 25, will now be the last season of the series, which originally aired on Max.

This information is not at all surprising. Dead Boy Detective spent just three weeks in Netflix’s top ten English-language series, peaking at #2 in its first week behind Phenom Little reindeer.

Based on the comic book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and part of the Sandman universe, Dead Boy Detectives after Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), the “brains” and “power” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only after death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries.

They’ll do anything to stick together—including escaping evil witches, Hell, and Death itself. With the help of a psychic named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they solve some of the most mysterious paranormal cases in the mortal world.

The 8-episode series also starred Kassius Nelson, Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Yuyu Kitamura, Ruth Connell, Lukas Gage and David Iacono.

Dead Boy Detectives was developed for television by Steve Yockey, who wrote the first episode and served as showrunner, with Beth Schwartz as co-showrunner. Greg Berlanti, Yockey, Schwartz, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, and Gaiman served as executive producers of the series for Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Lee Toland Krieger executive produced and directed the first episode.

Variety magazine was the first to report the cancellation.