{"id":52477,"date":"2025-07-09T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52477\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:18:09","slug":"duster-canceled-by-hbo-max-after-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52477\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Duster’ Canceled By HBO Max After One Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: After a five-year build-up, it was a short run for Bad Robot\u2019s 1970s crime drama Duster<\/a> as HBO Max<\/a> is not proceeding with a second season of the series from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan. The news comes less than a week after the Season 1 finale debuted on the platform.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is not entirely surprising because Duster, starring Josh Holloway<\/a> and Rachel Hilson<\/a>, wasn\u2019t able to generate a lot of buzz and viewer interest. Those who tuned in, largely liked what they saw \u2014 Duster is averaging 92% among critics and 83% among general viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. The series from Warner Bros. and Abrams\u2019 studio-based Bad Robot also remains in the daily Top 10 on HBO Max but it has not been able to get into the Nielsen Top 10 for streaming originals and barely cracked Luminate\u2019s list of Top 50 streaming originals in its fourth week at the last #50 spot.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile HBO Max will not be moving forward with a second season of Duster, we are so grateful to have had the chance to work with the amazingly talented co-creators J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, and our partners at Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television,\u201d HBO Max said in a statement to Deadline. \u201cWe are tremendously proud of this series led by Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson and we thank them along with our cast and crew for their incredible collaboration and partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuster, which reunited Lost co-creator\/executive producer Abrams and star Holloway, was originally ordered in April 2020. It filmed awhile ago, so the options on the cast already had expired and were not extended (which is not highly unusual for HBO Max), sources said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeeing the writing on the wall, I hear WBTV and Bad Robot quietly shopped Duster to other platforms where the adrenaline-heavy series could\u2019ve been a better fit but the effort was unsuccessful. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe cancellation leaves The Pitt as the only current HBO Max original series.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuster follows Nina (Hilson), the first Black female FBI agent, who in 1972 heads to the Southwest and recruits a gutsy getaway driver (Holloway), the first in a bold effort to take down a growing crime syndicate.<\/p>\n

\n\tKeith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunberg, Camille Guaty, Asivak Koostachin, Adriana Aluna Martinez, and Benjamin Charles Watson also starred.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJ.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan delivered a thrilling, multi-dimensional crime drama in Duster, with textured characters that took the audience back to the 1970s in a new and innovative way,\u201d WBTV said in a statement to Deadline. \u201cThose characters were brought to life by a wonderful team led by Josh, Rachel, and an extremely talented ensemble cast, along with an expert crew behind the scenes. We are incredibly proud of the show, and while we wish this journey could continue, we are thankful to our partners at HBO Max for the opportunity to tell Jim and Nina\u2019s story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first two episodes of Duster were written by Abrams and Morgan and directed by and executive produced by Steph Green. The series was executive produced by Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot and Morgan for TinkerToy Productions.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs HBO Max canceled Duster, the streamer today picked up<\/a> The Big Bang Theory spinoff series Stuart Fails To Save The Universe, also from WBTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After a five-year build-up, it was a short run for Bad Robot\u2019s 1970s crime drama Duster as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39235,171,487,39236,39237,39238,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-52477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-duster","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo-max","11":"tag-jj-abrams","12":"tag-josh-holloway","13":"tag-rachel-hilson","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114825600132647437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}