Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone reboot canceled after two seasons

The Hollywood Reporter

The CBS All Access episodic anthology series won't make the leap when the ViacomCBS streaming service is rebranded as Paramount+ next month. According to The Hollywood Reporter's Lesley Goldberg, Peele and fellow showrunner Simon Kinberg's "companies were both ready to walk away from the series though CBS All Access/Paramount+ wanted the series to continue." While Season 1 was released weekly when it premiered in April 2019, all of the Season 2 episodes were dropped on the same day for binge-watching last June. "Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg and the entire production team truly reimagined The Twilight Zone for the modern age," Paramount+ head of programming Julie McNamara said in a statement. "They upheld the classic series' legacy of socially conscious storytelling and pushed today's viewers to explore all new dimensions of thought-provoking and topical themes that we hope will resonate with audiences for years to come." The Twilight Zone reboot wasn't a consensus critical hit, and both seasons received disappointing audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes due to the long runtimes of episodes and predictable plodding.