Late last year, HBO unceremoniously axed and pulled multiple sci-fi drama series from its service including “Westworld,” “Raised by Wolves” and freshman series “The Nevers”.
The latter, originally created by Joss Whedon who exited in development, was commissioned for a twelve-episode first season which was to air in two blocks.
The first block of six episodes aired back in April and May 2021 to mixed/poor critical reviews but solid audience scores and a premiere that drew over 1.4 million viewers across linear telecasts and digital – the best debut for a new original series on HBO Max at the time.
Yet the network dragged its feet in terms of airing the second half until it slated the remaining six episodes for an early 2023 release which went out the window when the show was pulled.
On Tuesday came the news that Warner Bros. Discovery made a deal with third-party free ad-supported TV (FAST) services Roku and Tubi to launch branded channels this year on both of those services with the pulled HBO Max series set to air on those channels.
Tubi has now confirmed that they’ve scored the rights to all twelve episodes of “The Nevers” and will stream them all starting Monday, February 13th. The six previously-unseen episodes will premiere over two nights – Tuesday, February 14th and Wednesday, February 15th. Here’s the scheduled airing:
Monday, February 13th:
12:39pm US-ET: 1×01 “Pilot”
1:48pm: 1×02 “Exposure”
2:53pm: 1×03 “Ignition”
3:52pm: 1×04 “Undertaking”
4:52pm: 1×05 “Hanged”
Tuesday, February 14th:
1:28pm: 1×06 “True” TV-MA
2:38pm: 1×07 “It’s a Good Day” TV-MA
3:46pm: 1×08 “I Don’t Know Enough About You”
4:47pm: 1×09 “Fever” TV-MA
Wednesday, February 15th:
2:40pm: 1×10 “Alright, Okay, You Win”
3:45pm: 1×11 “Ain’t We Got Fun”
4:50pm: 1×12 “I’ll Be Seeing You”
Goslett spoke with TV Line and assures fans that the finale of the first season will give the series proper closure:
“I think Episode 12 brings all our storylines home to roost in ways that will feel satisfyingly cathartic. There are definitely story elements and character dynamics there which were intended to push into future series [seasons], but they would have been starting a new chapter of The Nevers. I believe that we bring this one to what feels like a natural close.”
Set during the waning years of Victorian London, the drama takes place after a supernatural event takes place in August 1896 in which certain people, mostly women, are granted extraordinarily abnormal abilities from the wondrous to the horrifying.
The mysterious widow Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and brilliant inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) set out to protect and shelter these gifted people from the forces determined to annihilate them.
Philippa Goslett served as showrunner on the series which also stars Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Rochelle Neil, Eleanor Tomlinson, Amy Manson, Pip Torrens, Denis O’Hare, Zackary Momoh, Elizabeth Berrington, Kiran Sawar, Anna Devlin, Viola Prettejohn, Ella Smith, Nick Frost, and Ben Chaplin.
