“Vampire Academy” TV series co-showrunner Marguerite MacIntyre has confirmed there’s no chance of the series returning for a second season.
News broke in January of the cancellation of the Peacock series because the show simply didn’t pull in enough viewers to warrant further seasons.
The story is set in a world of privilege and glamour, where two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.
Showrunners Julie Plec, Maclntyre, and Universal were shopping the series around in hopes of finding a new home – now it seems those efforts have yielded no result. A visibly upset Maclntyre says in her recent video update:
“I have been wanting to say this for a very long time. Again, thank you for all your love for the show. Thanks for the incredible support. Thanks for you sticking with us through a lot of thin lately.
I don’t have good news. I don’t see any avenue forward. I feel like now is the time to say I’m sorry about that, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. We went a little silent because there wasn’t a lot we could say. We pitched our hearts out, and we tried, and we took it as far as we could.
It’s a beautiful show, these are beautiful books, and these are beautiful characters. They’ll come back in the world. … We cared more than anything that the book fans love what we did, and you guys did, and it meant the world. We thank you. You made it a hit for us. Whatever else happened, it was a hit because you loved it and supported it.”
The ten-episode single-season series was based on Richelle Mead’s book series of the same name and starred Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore and Andre Dae Kim.
Source: Twitter
