As the great purge of TV programs continues, HBO has announced that your favorite Mick Jagger/Martin Scorsese-produced series about the heyday of the music biz is no more after Vinyl was scrapped after just one season.
Despite being a gold mine on paper, it seems Vinyl wasn’t worth its weight in wax. The tale of New York music scene in the 70s will go no further with the show getting scrapped “after careful consideration.” In a statement, HBO did make it clear that regardless, they still hold “enormous respect for the creative team and cast for their hard work and passion on this project.”
The Scorsese-directed pilot showed huge potentially, costing $30 million and attracting the attention of the network giant who signed up the show for a cool $100 million. But it seems to have been all downhill from there with the Vinyl soon losing its showrunner, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, and struggling with the critics.
HBO’s new Programming head Casey Bloys is slashing and burning his way through his predecessor Michael Lombardo’s projects with Jack Black’s comedy The Brink and David Milch’s Luck also getting the flick.
Starring Richie Finestra, Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano and Mick Jagger’s son James, Vinyl was conceived some two decades ago by Jagger and Scorcese as a feature film, converting into a series in 2015.
Given the climate around the vinyl revival, this is more proof of how unpredictable the public can be.
