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EXCLUSIVE: There will beryllium nary 2nd play of The Runarounds arsenic Prime Video has opted not to renew nan YA series.
The improvement is not astonishing arsenic it’s been 7 months since nan eight-episode first play of nan euphony play was released connected Sept. 1. According to sources, nan show was softly canceled a mates of months ago. Its female lead, Lilah Pate, precocious booked a bid regular domiciled connected different show, Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King spinoff Frisco King for Paramount+.
While The Runarounds nan bid is ending, nan eponymous stone set that was astatine nan halfway of it will transportation connected for nan foreseeable future. The group, comprised by bid stars and real-life musicians William Lipton, Axel Ellis, Jeremy Yun, Zendé Murdock, and Jesse Golliher, is connected circuit done nan extremity of June.
Created by Jonas Pate, co-creator of bid Outer Banks, and executive produced by each three Outer Banks co-creators, Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke, The Runarounds was inspired by nan existent set of nan aforesaid sanction formed successful 2021 to look connected nan deed Netflix action-adventure YA series.
The Runarounds was portion of Prime Video’s awesome YA description pursuing nan blockbuster occurrence of The Summer I Turned Pretty that has included deed bid Maxton Hall and We Were Liars, nan celebrated Culpables movie franchise arsenic good arsenic different 2025 show that did not get a 2nd season, Motorheads.
Like Motorheads, The Runarounds was not capable to break through. It didn’t make it into Nielsen’s Top 10 though it charted connected Luminate’s Top 50 successful its first 3 weeks, logging 1.9M hours watched successful nan U.S. astatine #32 for its opening weekend, followed by 2.2M (#27) and 1.2M (#41) successful Weeks 2 and 3.
The Runarounds, produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance Television, follows a group of caller precocious schoolhouse graduates from Wilmington, North Carolina, who travel together nan summertime aft graduation to shape a stone band, agreed by their shared emotion of euphony and near-impossible dream of stardom.
In summation to Lipton, Ellis, Yun, Murdock, Golliher and Lilah Pate, whose begetter is Jonas Pate, nan formed includes Maximo Salas, Kelley Pereira, Marley Aliah, Mark Wystrach, Brooklyn Decker, Hayes MacArthur, and Shea Pritchard.
The Runarounds was executive produced by David Wilcox, who wrote nan teleplay for nan opening episode, Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, Shannon Burke, Joon Yun, Scott Lambert, and Lisa Mae Fincannon, pinch David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television.
