‘The Right Stuff’ canceled by Disney + After one season, bought by WBTV – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Disney + has decided not to order a second season of a space race series The right thing. The Mercury 7-period drama, starring Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, originated at National Geographic before launching as a Disney + original last October. This is the cancellation of Disney +’s first text series.

Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind The right thing, buy it at other stores, with WarnerMedia brothers and sisters TNT and HBO Max as logical potential targets. I hear the options for the cast expire tomorrow, and WBTV has called for a two-week extension while efforts to find a new home continue.

There’s a big incentive for WBTV and older WarnerMedia to try to keep The right thing Launched – In November, the series, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, was given $ 13.7 million to move from Florida to California from Season 2, the fourth highest relocation incentive ever awarded under the CFC program.

Disney +’s decision not to continue with a second season of The right thing, adapted from Tom Wolfe’s best-selling non-fiction report on the early days of the US space program, comes after lengthy discussions with WBTV. I hear they have explored various ideas for continuing the series, including a second season focused on a new mission from the 1980s, probably with a new cast.

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The right thing, who was apparently a modest artist for Disney + who did not break into Nielsen’s Top 10 stream ratings, was Nat Geo’s first rotating original series for Disney +. This was Disney +’s second original drama series after that The Mandalorian and provided the SVOD platform with an original original text series in the fall when streamers felt the effects of the coronavirus-related production shutdown that drained the original content pipeline.

The eight-episode, set in 1959 The right thing explore what would become America’s first “reality show” as ambitious astronauts and their families become instantly known in a competition that could kill them or make them immortal. The two men in the middle of the story are Major John Glenn (Adams), a revered test pilot and dedicated family man with unwavering principles, and Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard (McDorman), one of the best test pilots in Navy history.

The rest of the Mercury Seven include Lieutenant Gordon Cooper (Colin O’Donoghue), Wally Schirra (Aaron Staton), Scott Carpenter (James Lafferty), Deke Slayton (Micah Stock) and Gus Grissom (Michael Trotter).

The right thingThe ensemble also features Nora Zehetner, Eloise Mumford, and Shannon Lucio, Patrick Fischler, Eric Ladin, Danny Strong and Josh Cooke.

DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson are executive producers, along with showrunner Mark Lafferty. Chris Long produced the director and CEO of the first episode. Will Staples, Howard Korder and Danny Strong are also executive producers. Thelma Schoonmaker is an advisory producer. Michael Hampton oversaw the project on behalf of Appian Way and is co-producer.