The Vampire Diaries bosses Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson's planned show Dead Day is no longer going ahead at Peacock.
Commissioned for a full series last January, the action would've followed an ensemble group of characters as they navigate the annual 'dead day', where for one night only, hordes of the deceased come back to either torment the living or celebrate with their loved ones.
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Variety broke the news of its cancellation at the steaming service, but there's still cause for hope, as Peacock is set to shop the series around to potential buyers.
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Peacock is strategically shifting to focus on more bingeable comedies and much more drama.
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Its latest offering is the star-studded Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne mystery series Poker Face, which features a rolling guest cast including Adrien Brody, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Tim Blake Nelson and Simon Helberg among others.
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Another TV title recently scrapped before it ever arrived on air was AMC's Invitation to a Bonfire, starring Tatiana Maslany and Pilou Asbæk.
"Everyone on the cast and crew is really crushed," said showrunner Rachel Caris Love earlier this month.
"When they called me, they said this had absolutely nothing to do with the creative and everything to do with finance and accounting. That's a very challenging thing to process when you're making something really beautiful and special.
"We made something one-of-a-kind... an erotic, suspenseful, and lush drama — told through the female gaze. We made a nesting doll of surprises. At the core: deceit, infidelity, murder."
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