EXCLUSIVE: Discovered won’t be getting a 3rd season at NBC. The sequence, starring Shanola Hampton, could also be shopped by its lead studio Warner Bros. Tv.
The information comes forward of the Season 2 finale, which has been teasing a showdown of kinds between Gabi (Hampton) and Sir’s sister Lena (Danielle Savre). The episode, which can now function a sequence finale, airs on Might 15.
Discovered was canceled at this time alongside fellow NBC sophomore drama The Irrational. Coming from totally different studios, Discovered from Warner Bros. TV and The Irrational from Common Tv, the 2 sequence had comparable runs.
Held as strike contingency, each reveals launched in fall 2023 amid a dearth of scripted originals on the published networks. Profiting from the lesser competitors and potent lead-ins, The Voice (Monday) for The Irrational and The Voice (Tuesday) for Discovered, the dramas began off nicely on NBC and Peacock. Discovered grew to become NBC’s prime launch on the streamer till then, with its premiere episodes drawing 10.5M viewers throughout platforms within the first week. By late November, each dramas had been renewed for a second season.
On a stacked 2024-25 broadcast schedule, Discovered – like The Irrational — has been registering steep year-to-year rankings declines, which factored within the cancellation choice. Discovered additionally confronted a brand new story paradigm in Season 2 as one of many key components of its premise modified with Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) escaping from Gabi’s (Hampton) basement within the Season 1 finale.
In the end, Discovered grew to become a casualty of NBC’s cutback on leisure programming to accomodate the 180 primetime hours of NBA basketball subsequent season, which additionally claimed dramas The Irrational, Fits LA and comedies Night time Court docket and Lopez vs Lopez — all canceled at this time.
Discovered follows public relations specialist Gabi Mosely (Hampton), who was as soon as herself one of many greater than 300,000 lacking folks of coloration within the U,S, and her disaster administration staff, who now ensure there’s at all times somebody looking for the forgotten lacking folks.
Gosselaar, Kelli Williams, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh, Arlen Escarpeta and Karan Oberoi additionally starred.
The sequence got here from creator/showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll, who exec produced alongside Sonay Hoffman, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Lindsay Dunn. Berlanti Productions and Rock My Soul Productions produced in affiliation with Warner Bros. Tv and Common Tv.
