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Magnum and Higgins’ time on tv is coming to an in depth. NBC has revealed that the Magnum PI TV sequence is ending and received’t have a sixth 12 months. The fifth season of 20 episodes will conclude in 2024.
An action-adventure drama sequence, the Magnum PI TV present stars Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Amy Hill, and Tim Kang. This reboot of the 1980s TV show follows Thomas Magnum (Hernandez), a adorned former Navy SEAL who repurposes his army abilities to grow to be a non-public investigator. He lives in a visitor cottage on Robin’s Nest, the luxurious property the place he works as a safety guide to complement his P.I. enterprise. The “majordomo” of the property is Juliet Higgins (Weeks), a gorgeous and commanding disavowed MI:6 agent who retains Magnum in line. When Magnum wants back-up on a job, he turns to his trusted buddies and fellow POW survivors, chopper pilot Theodore “TC” Calvin (Hill) and Orville “Rick” Wright (Knighton), a former Marine door-gunner who now runs a nightclub. Magnum continuously has run-ins with police detective Gordon Katsumoto (Kang) and the 2 are extra alike than both cares to confess. The unofficial “Home Mother” and cultural curator of Robin’s Nest, Teuila “Kumu” Tuileta (Hill) can also be one in all Magnum’s largest followers.
Airing on Sunday nights, the fifth season of Magnum PI averages a 0.27 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and three.35 million viewers. Compared to season four (which aired on CBS), that’s down by 35% within the demo and down by 36% in viewership within the stay+identical day scores (together with DVR playback by means of 3:00 AM). It’s been a moderate performer within the conventional scores.
Final 12 months, CBS cancelled the reboot series after 4 seasons as a result of the community and the present’s co-producing studio, Common Tv (owned by NBC-Common), couldn’t attain a monetary settlement for a fifth 12 months. As conventional viewing has dropped, networks are much less prepared to spend as a lot on reveals they don’t personal.
NBC revived the show for 20 episodes. It was initially reported that they might be cut up between seasons 5 and 6. It was later confirmed that they might all be a part of a fifth season. Ten episodes aired in the course of the 2022-23 season, and the remaining ten installments will run in the course of the upcoming 2023-24 season.
The cast’s options expire on June thirtieth, and NBC has opted to not lengthen them. The community might have prolonged them and would have had subsequent 12 months to resolve in the event that they needed a sixth season, placing the solid on maintain for a 12 months. With the uncertainty of the continuing writers strike, the choice has been made to finish the present.
What do you think? Have you ever stored up with the Magnum PI TV sequence on NBC? Are you sorry that this reboot has been cancelled as an alternative of renewed for a sixth season?
