FX has canceled its drama sequence The Old Man after two seasons.
The sequence, starring Jeff Bridges as a retired CIA operative pressed again into motion, carried out properly in its first season in 2022 and earned two Emmy nominations, for Bridges’ lead efficiency and cinematography.
Production on season two stopped throughout final 12 months’s twin labor strikes, resulting in a niche of greater than two years between seasons — common for a streaming sequence however arduous to beat for a present that originates on a linear channel, as The Old Man did on FX. The cancellation comes about eight weeks after season two aired its finale in late October.
FX declined remark.
The second — and now ultimate — season is up for 3 Critics Choice Awards in January: finest drama sequence, finest actor in a drama for Bridges and finest supporting actor in a drama for John Lithgow.
Along with Bridges and Lithgow, the season two solid contains Alia Shawkat, Amy Brenneman, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Navid Negahban and Jacqueline Antaramian.
Based on a novel by Thomas Perry, The Old Man is produced by twentieth Television and The Littlefield Company. Jonathan Steinberg and Robert Levine created the present and govt produced with Warren Littlefield, Dan Shotz, Bridges, David Schiff and Jon Watts.
Deadline first reported the information.
