{"id":71018,"date":"2025-10-11T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71018\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:24:06","slug":"butterfly-countdown-canceled-by-prime-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71018\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Butterfly,\u2019 \u2018Countdown\u2019 Canceled by Prime Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video_1\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a> has canceled a pair of first-year series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/butterfly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_butterfly_1\" data-tag=\"butterfly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Butterfly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/countdown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_countdown_1\" data-tag=\"countdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Countdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Amazon MGM Studios series had summer debuts and each spent a short time on Nielsen\u2019s top 10 U.S. streaming charts, but neither will return for a second run. The cancellation of Butterfly, starring Daniel Dae Kim, comes about two months after it premiered as a binge release. Countdown, led by Jensen Ackles, premiered in June and had a longer rollout, wrapping its 13-episode season in early September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tButterfly, based on a graphic novel by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, is a spy thriller that stars Kim as a former U.S. intelligence agent who comes out of hiding in South Korea to help his daughter (Reina Hardesty), who\u2019s also a spy. The show spent two weeks on the Nielsen streaming charts following its Aug. 13 premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCountdown, from Chicago Fire co-creator Derek Haas, stars Ackles as an LAPD detective who\u2019s brought into a task force involving several agencies that\u2019s working against time to stop a potentially devastating conspiracy. Jessica Camacho, Eric Dane, Violett Beane, Uli Latukefu and Elliot Knight also star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLike Butterfly, Countdown had a two-week run on the Nielsen streaming charts shortly after its premiere. It didn\u2019t keep up that momentum as the season continued, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKim (via his 3AD company) and Ackles (through his Chaos Machine banner) both have first-look deals at Amazon MGM Studios. Ackles stars in the forthcoming Vought Rising, a prequel to The Boys.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDeadline first reported the cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video has canceled a pair of first-year series, Butterfly and Countdown. The Amazon MGM Studios series had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18598,832,156,111,139,69,16505,437],"class_list":["post-71018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-butterfly","tag-countdown","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prime-video","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}