Bookie Cancelled After Two Seasons At Max
A third season of Bookie is too rich for Max's blood: The streaming service has cancelled the Chuck Lorre sitcom starring stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, TVLine has confirmed. (Our sister site Variety first reported the news.)
"For two seasons creators Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay and their hilarious cast, led by Sebastian Maniscalco, made us laugh while pulling back the curtain on the world of sports betting," a Max spokesperson said in a statement. "We won't be moving forward with a third season, but we are grateful to have worked with such a brilliant team on this laugh out loud comedy."
The news comes less than a month after Bookie's Season 2 finale, which dropped Jan. 30. The cancellation caps the single-cam's run at 16 episodes.
Bookie centered on Maniscalco's Danny, and picked up just as the potential legalization of sports gambling in California threatened to upend his business for good. "Alongside best friend and former NFL player Ray (Queen Sugar's Dorsey), side-hustling sister Lorraine (NCIS: New Orleans' Vanessa Ferlito) and reluctantly reformed drug dealer Hector (Lost's Jorge Garcia), Danny must contend with his increasingly unstable clients as he tries to settle their debts – all while making plenty of risky bets of his own," according to the official logline.
Rounding out the ensemble were Rob Corddry (The Unicorn) as client-turned-co-conspirator Walt Dinty, Andrea Anders (That '90s Show) as Danny's wife Sandra, and Maxim Swinton (Fleishman Is in Trouble) as Sandra's son Anthony.
Bookie made headlines in Season 1 for reuniting Lorre with former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen, who recurred in both seasons. On Bookie, Sheen played a heightened version of himself, and appeared in the pilot opposite onetime co-star Angus T. Jones.
"It was really healing," Lorre told TVLine of reconciling with Sheen. "It really felt good. It felt like we were closing the book on some horrible times."
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