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Time has run out on Apple TV+’s Time Bandits: The epic fantasy is ending after just one season at the streamer, TVLine has learned.
An adaptation of the 1981 Terry Gilliam film, Time Bandits followed an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) as he joined up with a ragtag group of thieves and traveled through time and space with them on a series of fantastical adventures. Lisa Kudrow co-starred as Penelope, with Charlyne Yi as Judy and Kiera Thompson as Kevin’s sister Saffron.
Taika Waititi served as a co-creator of Time Bandits along with his What We Do in the Shadows producing partner Jemaine Clement and The Inbetweeners alum Iain Morris. Waititi also appeared on the show as the Supreme Being, with Clement playing the villain known as Pure Evil. (What We Do in the Shadows is also set to end its FX run with its sixth and final season, debuting this October.)
Time Bandits debuted on Apple TV+ in July, with two episodes airing each week until the Aug. 21 season finale. The cancellation caps Time Bandits’ run at a total of 10 episodes.
Will you miss journeying through time and space with Apple TV+’s Time Bandits? Hit the comments to share your reaction to the news.
Yep. It took a few episodes to find it’s footing, but I enjoyed it.
With the development process for these shows being so so long it really smarts when they burn out so fast after such long waits.
I haven’t yet dipped my toes into Apple yet. Too many streamers. But, I will eventually rotate it in, as they have a few shows I’d really like to watch at some point.
They’ve consistently been producing some of the best sci-fi on any screen.
Agreed. We watch 90% of their new shows. Cant say the same for any other streamer. Even with less releases its still probably the streamer we end up watching the most because the shows are all good. Like Netflix once used to be
Yup its funny because Apple used to be one of the worst rated Streamers but if you ask me the amount of quality shows they but out is amazing!
It was kinda stupid but I found it entertaining. I’m sorry to hear it got cancelled
My small family and I are enjoying this show, about 3 episodes left to watch now. Had a feeling it wouldn’t last, but it is fun. I kind of don’t mind when my shows only get one season. Too many things to watch, and this gives me time to watch those other things. This was enjoyable, though.
Sad that any show with Lisa Kudrow doesn’t get a second season while in the same day Emily in Paris gets a season 5 renewal.
This was one of those rare kid shows that an adult could also enjoy (once you got past the first episode or two anyway). So shame its been cancelled as it was also educational for kids.
It hurts. I was really looking forward for a second season. This show is so funny and smart!
I really enjoyed it, but also I am not surprised. For me it was not what I was expecting, and it skewed a bit too much towards a younger/family audience imo. I stuck with it and enjoyed it but I can see why others may not have. For me it didn’t feel as dark or as satirical as the 1980s movie, even though it was very similar. But it held its own in the end, and I am disappointed it has not been renewed.
Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of shows that are geared to families. It’s either too kiddish or too adult.
I hadn’t gotten a chance to watch it yet – still too much other content to watch, and so little time. Those that watched, did it at least have a satisfying ending? Curious to know if it’s still worth watching.
I couldn’t get past the first episode. It felt PAINFULLY dated. The whole idea of a dichotomy between “modern life” (phone addiction and hating history) and “caring about history” (eschewing technology, reading old books) is absolute nonsense. Esp nowadays, when a goodly chunk of internet culture is history focused: history bounding, historical sewing, historical cooking, arguing about history — from paleontology to Victorian life to goofy ren fare fun, internet people freaking LOVE history.
I watched that first episode wondering why this ridiculous child didn’t put down the old, dated (probably racist as hell) history books and pick up his phone and find his people in about ten seconds flat. (Not to mention some updated books!) I mean. It was just so unhinged from reality. They should have set it in the flip phone past or updated so it made some semblance of sense. I see people moan all the time that “adaptations should be faithful” froth froth, rage rage. But this is a great example of why adaptations should update.
And maybe the show did get better. Great if it did. But since the writers were too out of touch to notice what they were doing wrong in the first episodes I didn’t trust them not to butcher the areas of history they were going to portray in later eps, so it wasn’t worth wading thru the nonsense.
I didn’t care for the show. I didn’t find it funny. But the young actor who played Kevin was the one bright aspect of the show. He should be first in line to play Harry Potter in the HBO series.