HBO cancelled the Stephen King adaptation after just one season.
It's been nearly four years since HBO cancelled The Outsider after just one season, but many feel that the series deserved more — and so does author Stephen King . On social media, King, who wrote the novel the series was adapted from, agreed with author Lindwood Barclay who praised the series writing himself that the series deserved a second season with a simple,"Yes. It did." You can check out the exchange for yourself below.
The series was a strong performer for HBO. At the time, The Outsider averaged better than 9 million viewers per episode across all platforms according to the network and its finale brought in 1.37 million people watching it live. Replays and streaming numbers brought that to 2.2 million — numbers that made it a stronger performer than Watchmen or Lovecraft Country.
"We try to approach everything as if there's going to be Season 2. It's always hard," Bloys said at the time."And it's always a challenge when you have something that is based on a book and obviously with The Outsider, you've got a great roadmap. So, if you're going to go and do more without that, you got to make really sure there's a story to tell. We just didn't feel like we landed on a story that would live up to the first season.
Other Stephen King Adaptations Are in The WorksWhile The Outsider didn't get more than one season, other adaptations of the King's novels are in the works. It was recently reported that Glen Powell is in talks to star in Edgar Wright's The Running Man, based on a science fiction story by King written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was also recently reported that production on an adaptation of The Monkey, starring Tatiana Maslany and Elijah Wood, has finished filming.
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