Executive producer and showrunner for the Hulu dystopian series Y, The Last Man, Eliza Clarke (Extant, Animal Kingdom), announced that the show has been unable to find a new platform for their second season.
“For those of you who have been asking me: we tried really hard to get another platform to pick up season 2 of Y,” Clark wrote on Twitter. “But sadly, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. It is always incredibly difficult to move a show, and in recent years, it has only gotten harder.”
The show, based on the comic book series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan (Runaway, Under The Dome) follows the last male on planet earth after a devastating event decimates modern society. The show ran for only one season on Hulu until it was cancelled in October.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, FX on Hulu decided to cancel the show not because of viewership figures, but because of financial reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic lead to a lengthy shut down of production in 2020 which caused the network to pay some of their bigger stars more to extend their contracts on the show. With the pandemic still surging, the service decided to ultimately cancel the show in order to avoid having costly casting issues.
“Without COVID, the show would have been on a different clock,” one source close to the cancellation process told The Hollywood Reporter.
With the failure to find a new home for the show, Clark took to Twitter to thank the people she worked with on the show for their hard work, and she also thanked the devoted fans that rooted for the show’s return.
”So many of you have been so supportive of the show, and I am so grateful to you. I love the group of artists who made Y truly, madly, deeply. It was the best creative work environment I’ve ever been a part of. I am immensely proud of the work that we did,” Clark wrote.