
We've got some breaking news about the Halo TV Show, with Paramount+ announcing it's officially cancelling the series after two seasons.
Here is the official Paramount+ statement about the cancellation of its Halo series (via The Hollywood Reporter):
“We are extremely proud of this ambitious series and would like to thank our partners at Xbox, 343 Industries and Amblin Television, along with showrunner and executive producer David Wiener, his fellow executive producers, the entire cast led by Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief and the amazing crew for all their outstanding work. We wish everyone the best going forward.”
Although the Halo series is being axed by Paramount, it might not be over just yet. According to the source, Amblin Television, Xbox and 343 Industries are reportedly looking for "another outlet" to secure the series for a third season run. Paramount+ is believed to be supportive of this idea.
The Halo streaming series originally made its debut back in 2022 and while it didn't always match the expectations of the fanbase, it apparently went on to become the most-watched premiere and also one of the most-watched streaming series on Paramount+.
This latest news about the Halo series follows Paramount signing a multi-billion-dollar merger with Skydance Media last week after ongoing financial troubles.
What are your thoughts about this cancellation? Let us know in the comments.
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Good let it rot in the hell it deserves
Let amazon have a go at it.
Mostly because I wouldn't be caught dead with a paramount+ sub.
Not surprising as Paramount is sort of falling apart as a platform.
The show was well-received and Microsoft should learn from Paramount's failing as a TV/movie streaming service when it comes to their own services and studios.
But it had so much going for it, like there was that one scene … wait, that was Reptar. Oh! There was that time where Chief … nope, that was Reptar too. Nevermind.
RIP mastercheeks 🍑
First season really killed any hope for this show, second season was awesome but zero hope anyone would tune in to see it. Paramount seems to have a habit of turning extreme turds to gold, they did it with Picard as well, season 3 is legendary.
Never watched it, and I heard it got better in season 2 and set things up nicely for Season 3. But that is a HUGE problem in itself. You can’t have 2 seasons of buildup to get to Halo in a Halo TV show.
Not surprised sadly. I watched both seasons but you could tell that while season 2 was a course correction it didn’t have the budget to do Halo justice. Battle of Reach was like 5 minutes.
Paramount created Star Trek Prodigy, then canceled the series after one season and sold it to someone else to develop.
I didn’t hate it. I think in another time it would have been better received.
But compared to the quality of other videogame shows like Fallout, The Last of Us, and even Twisted Metal, and Halo was clearly still in the minor leagues.
Wouldn't be surprised if it shows up on Amazon especially how well they did the Fallout show.
I love the Halo series but can't imagine a universe in which it would make a good TV show or film. Animated maybe but live action? I made it two episodes in.
I made it about halfway through the first season, and it was one of the worst shows I've ever seen. It's stunning that you could mess up a Halo show that badly. I don't care if the second season was "better", I have no interest in anything that comes from anyone that was involved with the show.
@EvenStephen7 I agree, for the most part. Twisted Metal was pretty dumb. Watchable, but dumb. It was something I put on and didn't bother to sit in front of the TV the whole time. It belongs in the Halo bucket, not with the other two.
shows like Halo are why game adaptations used to get a bad name
Good news at last.
Season 2 was genuinely good. The problem is it's clearly a very expensive TV show to make. Almost certainly costing a lot more than Fallout, Last of Us etc... Halo on the cheap just doesn't work. Would be surprised if someone picks it up elsewhere.
That said, new viewers should skip season 1 and just enjoy the fall of reach!
@Rodimusprime13 Despite it’s high quality this was a show designed to get new young people interested in Trek and it had the opposite effect and appealed more to nostalgia.
No Halo after 2 seasons of a show called Halo. It was all over the place sadly.
Is there a correlation between Halo being cancelled and Microsoft Web worldwide outage though?
Good, this felt like bad fanfiction.
Honestly once I got past the silver timeline guff, I ended up enjoying the show for what it was.
And nothing of value was lost.
It's a good job and cancelled Paramount some weeks back
This website is awful. The contact page wants a enquiry subject, a name and e-mail address. All entered correctly, but still asks me to enter these details to send my query. I only want to know how to add a photo to my profile. I'm using a tablet
@theduckofdeath Yea I was probably being generous with TM. I guess I was thinking it was faithful to the tone and feel of the original games (pre-Black), similar to Fallout and Last of Us feeling faithful to their source material. Whereas Halo just felt like a movie exec’s impression of what Halo was after playing it for 15 minutes.
Guess I don't need Paramount+ anymore.
This show is the '93 Super Mario Bros. Movie for a new generation.
@themightyant " You can’t have 2 seasons of buildup to get to Halo in a Halo TV show."
But we had 7 seasons of buildup to get to Halo on Xbox.....
The news makes me sad. Granted it was not 100% faithful to the game at all. But for what it was, I really enjoyed it.
It's Paramount...what do you expect?
@Rodimusprime13 As a Janeway/Voyager fan...I'm still mad about that.
@EvenStephen7 another time ? It could’ve been a fan made YouTube movie I wouldn’t tell the difference
The 2nd Season only made it because they thought Season 1 would go down so well lol.
@TheSimulator Oh I was thinking before YouTube, in the dark, dark days of late 90s/early 00s videogame adaptations.
Hate to hear this. I actually really enjoyed the show.
I've never heard anything but awful things about this show. Combined with how Paramount treats Sonic (Knuckles was AWFUL) and even TMNT nowadays, I'm not surprised they tried to drag Halo through the septic tank and then run in circles screaming when it didn't work.
Like most things Xbox related.
R.I.P. Master Cheeks
Really hope it gets picked up by Netflix. So much potential.
Should've kept his helmet on.
@Rodimusprime13 not actually true. Both series were developed by Paramount but then they cancelled it after series two had been shown (development was still in post on season 2).
Netflix bought the rights to show it but development was all paid for under paramount’s watch.
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