Over two years after its first season aired, it has finally been confirmed that the Adrien Brody-led series “Chapelwaite” will not be returning for a second season.
The show was originally designed as a limited series but reports in February last year indicated it landed a second-season renewal from EPIX (now rebranded as the MGM+ service).
According to a PR spokesperson, the show was actually never formally renewed – the second season was merely in development. With that no longer the case, the series has ended up being the one-off it was planned as.
The 1850s set series serves as an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella “Jerusalem’s Lot” which is, in itself, a prequel to his renowned early novel “Salem’s Lot”.
Brody played Captain Charles Boone, a widower who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small and sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine.
He will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations. Emily Hampshire co-starred as an ambitious young journalist turned governess
Donald De Line, Jason Filardi, and Peter Filardi executive produced with showrunner Jason Filardi breaking the cancellation news on X saying: “I’m afraid Captain Boone’s story ends on that beach of weathered, Maine sand. There will be no season 2. Thank you to all the Chapelwaite fans.”
The news comes as it was recently indicated the film adaptation of “Salem’s Lot” is bypassing a theatrical release and is going straight to Max in the coming months.
