Magnum P.I. Canceled With Season 5 at NBC

The Magnum P.I. reboot is formally set to return to an finish on NBC with the discharge of Season 5, Part 2 in 2024.

As damaged by Deadline, NBC has opted to not order extra episodes of Magnum P.I. past the 20-episode fifth season it picked up final 12 months. The outlet stories that NBC is anticipated to “mount a sizable campaign” for what can be marketed because the present’s last chapter, consisting of the remaining 10 episodes.

Based on the 1980-1988 sequence of the identical identify, Magnum P.I. initially premiered on CBS in 2018. The sequence stars Jay Hernandez as Thomas Magnum, a job occupied by Tom Selleck within the authentic ’80s incarnation. Due to licensing payment disagreements with Universal, CBS canceled the Magnum P.I. reboot in 2022 after 4 seasons. Shortly after, NBC revived the present for a 20-episode fifth season, which might be break up into two components.

(*5*)Why did NBC simply cancel Magnum P.I.?

The 10 episodes that make up Magnum P.I. Season 5, Part 1 aired on NBC from February 2023 to April 2023. Season 5, Part 2 is at the moment anticipated to air as a part of the 2024 midseason. However, Deadline stories that the brand new episodes might doubtlessly arrive earlier, relying on the impression of the continuing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike.

While Magnum P.I. Season 5, Part 2 isn’t slated to air till subsequent 12 months, the choices on the solid expire in only a matter of days on June 30. According to Deadline, this “forced the issue now.” Evidently, NBC had three choices: give the present an early Season 6 renewal, prolong the choices on the solid, or launch the solid and finish the present.

An early Season 6 renewal was unlikely, given the truth that networks are hesitant handy out pickups in the course of the aforementioned WGA strike. Meanwhile, extending the choices would have imposed a protracted maintain on the solid, since — in that situation — NBC wouldn’t must make a Season 6 renewal resolution for an additional 12 months. As such, the community in the end went with possibility quantity three.