After one controversial season on HBO, The Idol has been canceled.
The Weeknd co-created the sequence with Euphoria mastermind Sam Levinson and author/producer Reza Fahim. The Ethiopian-Canadian singer/songwriter (actual title: Abel Tesfaye) additionally co-starred within the sequence as Tedros, a Svengali who enters the lifetime of aspiring pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) and takes management of each side of her world.
“The Idol was one in every of HBO’s most provocative authentic applications, and we’re happy by the sturdy viewers response,” an HBO spokesperson mentioned in a press release accompanying the cancellation information, based on The Hollywood Reporter. “After a lot thought and consideration, HBO, in addition to the creators and producers have determined to not transfer ahead with a second season. We’re grateful to the creators, forged, and crew for his or her unimaginable work.”
The sequence was on a roller-coaster journey earlier than it even debuted, from a behind-the-scenes crew shakeup and reshoots in 2022 to a scathing Rolling Stone report of a poisonous work atmosphere to a splashy premiere remarkable for a tv present on the Cannes Movie Pageant in Could. The Weeknd dismissed the offscreen drama in a Vainness Truthful interview in Could, saying, “Exhibits get reshot every single day … What are you gonna do? These are the trials and tribulations of it, and that’s what the present is about.” At a Cannes press convention, The Weeknd mentioned he and Levinson had been making an attempt to create “one thing particular, one thing enjoyable, to make individuals chortle, piss some individuals off.”
In line with THR, The Idol drew 913,000 viewers throughout all platforms on its June 4 premiere evening, with the community saying that the primary episode has since reached 7 million viewers within the two-plus months after its debut.
Music from the present landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Scorching Trending Songs chart earlier in the summertime, as The Weeknd’s “One of many Women,” with JENNIE and Lily-Rose Depp, topped the July 1-dated tally.
