

Deadline reports that Netflix has renewed a handful of shows over the last seven months, such as The Four Seasons, Man on the Inside, Beauty in Black, Running Point, Forever, North of North, Bet, and Ransom Canyon. There have also been shows with up-in-the-air status, such as No Good Deed, The Residence, and Pulse. Two of the latter have been canceled.
Deadline confirmed that the show Pulse, starring Willa Fitzgerald (Strange Darling, Joe Baby) and Colin Woodell (The Continental, The Flight Attendant), was going to be canceled a month ago. Pulse was created by Zoe Robyn (Hawaii Five-O, Odd Squad) for Netflix, which faced challenges from the start. Four other medical dramas premiered within six months: Fox’s Doc, NBC’s Brilliant Minds, Max’s The Pitt, and CBS’s Watson. Pulse was the last to do so. The four other shows would also get renewed for a second season.
The Residence also got the boot from Netflix, which suffered from bad timing. According to Deadline, the murder mystery premiered just one week after Netflix debuted another show, Adolescence, earning massive viewership and becoming one of the platform’s most-watched English-language series.
The Residence had an all star cast, which included Uzo Aduba (Lightyear, American Pastoral), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, The Usual Suspects), Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh Off The Boat), Susan Kelechi Watson (This Is Us, NCIS), Ken Marino (Wanderlust, The Ten) and Jason Lee (Almost Famous, Chasing Amy). According to Deadline, the show boasted high production costs and elaborate set designs in the largest ever re-creation of the White House. The set was built on seven different sound stages.
Deadline mentions that Pulse and The Residence spent four weeks in Netflix’s weekly Top 10. No Good Deed also spent almost a month in the top ten with over six million views.
Starring Lisa Kudrow (Friends, The Comeback) and Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond, The Big Sick), Deadline reports that No Good Deed was crafted as an anthology crime series. Each season would feature new lead characters from a new home, with a new crime to try and hide. Similar to HBO’s The White Lotus, the next installment was set to follow two characters from season one, played by Teyonah Parris (WandaVision, They Cloned Tyrone) and O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale, Marvel’s Black Widow), as they were the only actors who signed multi-year deals for the series. If a second season is greenlit, creator Liz Feldman (Dead to Me, 2 Broke Girls) may craft a new concept.