“Here and Now,” HBO’s original family drama starring Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter and created by Alan Ball (“True Blood,” “Banshee”), will not return for a second season, the network announced Wednesday.
“After careful consideration we have decided not to move forward with a second season of ‘Here and Now,’” HBO said in a statement, Deadline reported. “We thank Alan for his dedication to innovative storytelling, and we look forward to his next endeavor.”
The show suffered from low ratings and had only a 24 percent positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, although the audience ratings were 86 percent among the 166 people who reviewed it on the site.
Only 2 million viewers on average watched the 10 episodes in the first season, far below the ratings of other HBO originals such as “Game of Thrones,” “Westworld,” and “Big Little Lies,” Deadline reported. “Game of Thrones” will serve up its final season next year.
"Here and Now" featured a multi-ethnic family made up of white parents (Robbins and Hunter) who adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia, and Colombia and raised them alongside their one biological child. It also showed a Muslim American family, the head of which was a psychiatrist treating one of the children.
“I hope that this show could be a forum for philosophical and ethical discussions; discussions about race, gender, sexuality and the nature of reality,” Ball told The Hollywood Reporter when the series premiered in February.
“Vinyl,” “Luck,” “John from Cincinnati,” “K Street,” and “Tell Me You Love Me” were other recent HBO series canceled after the first season.