& # 39; Champions & # 39; canceled after one season at NBC – Variety

"Champions" will not be coming back for a second season at NBC.

Universal Television, with whom Mindy Kaling, executive producer of "Champions" has reached a global deal, would be looking for a new home for the show. Kaling also has the next project "Four Weddings and Funeral" for Hulu through Universal Television, but there is no word yet whether Hulu will participate in the "Champions" as he has done. with The Mindy Project.

"Champions" centered on Vince, a failed high school baseball star who reluctantly abandoned her dreams of taking control of the family gym in Brooklyn. He lived with his younger brother, naïve and sweet, Matthew, and was about to secretly sell the gym and move to Florida when an old high school student unexpectedly threw their son Michael, 15 years old. The series struggled to find an audience from the start, with an average of only 0.5 and 2 million viewers in Live + Same Day.

The series featured Anders Holm, Fortune Feimster, Andy Favreau, JJ Totah, and Mouzam Makkar. Kaling, who co-created the series with Charlie Grandy, featured guest. Grandy, Kaling, Matt Warburton, Howard Klein and Michael Spiller served as executive producers, with Spiller also in charge. "Champions" was produced by Universal Television, 3 Arts Entertainment, Charlie Grandy Productions, Inc. and Kaling International.

NBC previously took over the new comedies "I Feel Bad" and "Abby's" and resurrected "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". "For the TV season 2018-19" I Feel Bad "will be launched in the autumn, with the other two for the mid-season.NBC has also resumed new dramas" Manifest "and" New Amsterdam "for the Autumn 2018 and "The Enemy Within", "The Village" and "The InBetween" for mid-season.