UPDATE: If there’s ever a character you shouldn’t count out early, it’s John fucking Constantine. Apparently the show is still awaiting its final fate from the higher-ups at NBC. It’s not cancelled yet!
The original article is intact below.
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Bollocks.
Despite rabid fan passion campaigning for a second season, NBC has opted not to renew Constantine. The news has been first reported by BuzzFeed entertainment writer Kate Authur.
More surprising than the cancellation is how quickly we’ve found out. Showrunner Daniel Cerone had tweeted several times that the producers would pitch the second season to NBC — who, according to Cerone via Twitter, wanted the show to succeed and acknowledged the feverish fan support — in late spring. I’ve just started leaving my house without my winter jacket and already we know the fate of one John Constantine.
It wasn’t a great show, but I loved it. Warts and all. It had a world to explore and frankly, it was quite a lot unlike a lot of genre television. This news will seriously hit me like a ton of bricks in due time. I’ll be at the DMV next week and I’ll just start tearing up.
I had a wonderful time meeting the showrunners and stars at this past New York Comic-Con, and I’m bummed I won’t see them again this year.
There were rumors circulating that the series would be rebranded as Hellblazer and broadcast on Syfy, and while many fans agreed that would be a spectacular idea Syfy it was basically bullshit.
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Sorry, Hellblazers. Maybe some other day. Like the Justice League Dark movie in a few years.