Oh boy, the Quantum Leap revival is officially dead
Star Raymond Lee offered a eulogy for the two-season revival project to fans, writing "We're so proud of the show we made"
Another Friday night, another mid-tier network TV show getting kicked down the corpse chute, landing with an unceremonious thump on the Friday Night Murder Pile—that place where shows watched by you, and like twenty people you knew on social media, and that’s pretty much it, go to die. Tonight’s victim: NBC’s revival of Quantum Leap, which managed to last for two whole seasons on the network before facing the Friday Evening Executioner, that harbinger of clandestine TV show murders for lo these many years.
Credit to series showrunners Martin Gero and Dean Georgaris, though: They clearly knew their show, a revival of the classic ’90s sci-fi adventure series—was probably going to be on the bubble when they were making its second season, crafting at least some kind of happy ending for time-displaced scientist Ben Song. (At the very least, Ben didn’t get his name misspelled in the show’s final frame, which is more than you can say for his predecessor, Dr. Sam Becket/t.)