Vampire Academy gained’t be getting back from the lifeless, in line with co-showrunner Marguerite MacIntyre, who has shared an replace on the Peacock drama’s rescue efforts.
“I’ve been desirous to say this for a really very long time,” MacIntyre, who developed the sequence with Julie Plec, says in a video posted to social media on Wednesday. “Once more, thanks for all of your love for the present. Thanks for the unbelievable help. Thanks for you sticking with us via quite a lot of skinny currently.”
Then got here the unlucky half: “I don’t have excellent news. I don’t see any avenue ahead. I really feel like now could be the time to say I’m sorry about that, nevertheless it wasn’t for lack of making an attempt. We went a bit of silent as a result of there wasn’t loads let’s imagine. We pitched our hearts out, and we tried, and we took it so far as we might.”
Nonetheless, MacIntyre is assured that St. Vladimir’s Academy will reopen its doorways once more, even when she isn’t the one to do it.
“It’s a good looking present, these are lovely books, these are lovely characters,” she says. “They’ll come again on the planet. … We cared greater than something that the ebook followers love what we did, and also you guys did, and it meant the world. We thanks. You made it successful for us. No matter else occurred, it was successful since you liked it and supported it.”
Watch MacIntyre’s full video under:
— Marguerite MacIntyre (@Caryshotwife) May 3, 2023
An adaptation of Richelle Mead’s ebook sequence, Vampire Academy ran for 10 episodes on Peacock from September to October 2022, and was finally canceled by the streamer in January 2023.
In keeping with Susan Rovner, Chairman of Leisure Content material for all of NBCUniversal Tv and Streaming, Vampire Academy obtained the chop as a result of its supposed demographic isn’t coming to Peacock for young-adult content material… but.
“It was too quickly to place these reveals up on the platform,” Rovner mentioned of Vampire Academy and also-canceled One among Us Is Mendacity. “I believe what we realized is we’ve got to get the dad and mom [watching Peacock] earlier than we get the kids. And I’m actually hoping that when we get the dad and mom with reveals like Poker Face and reveals like [the newly renewed] Traitors, that we will do a present like Vampire Academy just a few years from now. Sadly, the timing actually wasn’t proper and we didn’t have the dimensions but to help bringing in a younger grownup viewers for that present.”
Vampire Academy starred Sisi Stringer as Rose Hathaway, Daniela Nieves as Lissa Dragomir, Kieron Moore as Dimitri Belikov, André Dae Kim as Christian Ozera, Anita-Pleasure Uwajeh as Tatiana Vogel, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Mia Karp, Jonetta Kaiser as Sonya Karp, Andrew Liner as Mason Ashford, Rhian Blundell as Meredith Beckham and J. August Richards as Victor Dashkov.
