Doctor Who star Tosin Cole's US drama 61st Street has been cancelled, despite already wrapping filming on a second season.
The AMC series sees Cole play the role of Moses Johnson, a promising Black teenager who gets wrongfully caught up in Chicago's corrupt justice system.
However, despite already being renewed for a second outing with the episodes in the can, Variety reports that the show will no longer move forward.
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The site claims that the decisions come as part of cost-cutting measures, with the network also scrapping its series Invitation to a Bonfire starring She-Hulk's Tatiana Maslany, which had shot four of six episodes before the decision.
61st Street also stars Lovecraft Country's Courtney B Vance and Mindhunter's Holt McCallany, and comes from British writer Peter Moffat.
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Cole previously spoke to Digital Spy about the importance of the show and how it resonates with the Black community and their experiences.
"To have something that talks about the times we're living in, being part of something that's relevant, and is part of a bigger discussion," he said. "It's showing the system side of things, but also the humanity, and the human essence, and the soul of the people.
"It's about how it takes a village to raise a child. As the story grows, you see mothers coming together, fighting for their children, and the community coming together, and protecting something so precious to them that's supposed to help uplift the community, when the system's potentially trying to break it down.
"So, you know, it's showing those things and just making people who are not from that world, and not from that culture, understand that this is what we go through. This is the mindset that people have to live with and these things happen on the daily. It's not just in America. These things are universal to many other people."
61st Street aired on AMC in the US, and is available for BT TV customers in the UK.
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