Meagan Good and Laz Alonso couldn’t quite get Deception to stick with audiences.
On Wednesday, NBC announced that it was cutting the one-hour drama after just one season. Deadline reports the show’s failure to launch could be due to its parallel theme to ABC’s primetime thriller Revenge.
The show centered around a detective (Good) who returned to a wealthy and troubled family home where she grew up while her mother was a live-in housekeeper. Going undercover, she aimed to solve the murder of a popular socialite who was once her best friend.
Over on FOX, Michael Ealy has landed a new role on the tentatively titled police drama Almost Human. The show is set 35 years in the future where police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.
Deadline states “an unlikely connection is forged when a cop with an aversion to robots and a robot with unexpected emotional responses investigate cases in a brave new world.”
Almost Human, executive produced by J.J. Abrams, also stars Karl Urban and Lili Taylor.
The network has also picked up Sleepy Hollow, with Nicole Beharie, as a modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic short story.
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