‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Canceled After Single Season at Netflix

Rick Porter
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Netflix has taken Dead Boy Detectives off the case.

The series, set in the same fictional universe as The Sandman, won’t return for a second season. The news comes about four months after the show’s eight-episode season premiered on Netflix.

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Dead Boy Detectives, from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions, took a winding road to its Netflix debut. It was originally set up at Max, which ordered a pilot for the show in 2021 and gave it a series order a year later. Amid a shake-up at Warner Bros. and DC (the show is based on characters from comics by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner), however, the series moved to Netflix in February 2023 and finally premiered 14 months later.

The series, starring George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri as the title characters, earned largely positive reviews; The Hollywood Reporter critic Angie Han said Dead Boy Detectives is “never less than entertaining, thanks to an appealingly quirky lead cast and a cheeky sense of humor.”

The show spent three weeks on Netflix’s internal top 10 for English-language series, racking up 9.6 million views (the equivalent of that many full showings of the season) in that time. It ranked among Nielsen’s top 10 original streaming series twice following its premiere.

Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant) developed the series at Max and stayed on when Dead Boy Detectives switched platforms, serving as co-showrunner along with Beth Schwartz. They executive produced with Greg Berlanti, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Gaiman.

Variety first reported the news.

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