{"id":595637,"date":"2026-04-10T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595637\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:46:15","slug":"stu-wont-be-back-for-more-twisted-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595637\/","title":{"rendered":"Stu Won&#8217;t Be Back For More &#8220;Twisted Metal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/stu-wont-be-back-for-more-twisted-metal.jpg\" data-caption=\"Peacock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/stu-wont-be-back-for-more-twisted-metal.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"stu-wont-be-back-for-more-twisted-metal\"\/><\/a>Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Mike Mitchell has confirmed that he won\u2019t be reprising his role of Stu, Sweet Tooth\u2019s protege, for the third season of Peacock\u2019s post-apocalyptic action comedy series \u201cTwisted Metal\u201d based on the PlayStation game series.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DIH9qKhg7EI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doughboys Media<\/a> podcast, Mitchell says he was \u2018heartbroken\u2019 about his exit as he loved the Anthony Mackie-led show, but wasn\u2019t bitter about the departure and spoke about his love for the crew.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Nick Wiger indicated that the studio had made a creative and financial decision not to include the Stu character in future episodes.  Instead, the series is moving \u201cin a different direction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell wasn\u2019t singled out either, as he says the creative changes affected several others involved in the show, with original showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith, several department heads, and the writing staff reportedly let go. <\/p>\n<p>Mitchell recurred in the role throughout the first two seasons, and in the second season finale, he ended up separated from everyone else in a way that makes writing him out of the third season relatively easy.<\/p>\n<p>Peacock confirmed that a third season was in the works a few months after the release of the second season last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peacock Mike Mitchell has confirmed that he won\u2019t be reprising his role of Stu, Sweet Tooth\u2019s protege, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-595637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}