It’s rare that when TV shows are renewed for a new season the decision is reversed. Normally they’re just not renewed. But the current climate involving the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes is creating a very turbulent situation. Films such as Tron: Ares and Deadpool 3 have seen production halted indefinitely. Whilst The Peripheral season 2 starring Chloë Grace Moretz has now been scrapped.

Amazon’s Prime Video announced back in February that The Peripheral had been renewed for season 2. However, according to several reports, that renewal has been scrapped because of all the work stoppage caused by the strikes. Thus making it the first show to suffer a renewal reversal due to the ongoing action.

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Strike scraps

The Peripheral might be the first but it won’t be the last to see a renewed season scrapped. Prime Video has also scrapped season 2 of A League of Their Own. Other shows with only one season are likely to be next if the strikes continue as they are.

Based on a William Gibson novel, The Peripheral is a sci-fi drama released in 2022. Set in a not too distant future, the series “centers on Flynne Fisher (Moretz), a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America,” notes the synopsis. “Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future; until the future comes calling for her.”

Starring alongside Moretz was Jack Reynor, Gary Carr, Eli Goree, Louis Herthum, JJ Feild, T’Nia Miller, Charlotte Riley, Alexandra Billings, Adelind Horan, Alex Hernandez, Katie Leung, Julian Moore-Cook, Melinda Page Hamilton, Chris Coy, and Austin Rising.

Created by Scott B. Smith and produced by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, Joy and Nolan have also been working on a TV adaption of Fallout. Production has finished but there’s no release date just yet.

Considering the show ended on a cliff hanger, are you disappointed The Peripheral won’t return? Let us know in the comments below.

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