‘Time Bandits’ Canceled After Single Season at Apple TV+
Apple TV+ won’t reset the clock on Time Bandits.
The tech giant’s streaming service has canceled the series, an adaptation of a 1981 feature film by Terry Gilliam, after a single season. The news comes less than four weeks after Time Bandits completed its 10-episode first season on Aug. 21.
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As is the case with most streaming series, viewing figures for Time Bandits aren’t publicly available. The show didn’t break into Nielsen’s top 10 original streaming series in the first four weeks of its run (Apple TV+ released two episodes per week). Critics were largely positive on the show; The Hollywood Reporter’s Daniel Fienberg wrote that particularly in the second half of the season, Time Bandits is “actively funny and clever and just a little bit emotional.”
Like the film, the series follows a young history buff (Kal-El Tuck) who’s recruited to join a band of thieves who move through time stealing precious objects. Lisa Kudrow plays the leader of the group; Charlyne Yi, Tadhg Murphy, Rune Temte and Roger Jean Nsengiyumva also star.
The now-shuttered Paramount Television Studios, Anonymous Content and MRC Television produced the show. Taika Waititi and co-showrunners Jemaine Clement and Iain Morris created Time Bandits, based on characters created by Gilliam and Michael Palin, and executive produced with Garrett Basch, Tim Coddington and Jane Stanton of Handmade Films, which produced the movie.
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