Even a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score wasn’t enough to save one hit horror show from the chopping block. Hysteria!, the Satanic Panic series starring horror icon Bruce Campbell and Modern Family alum Julie Bowen, has been canceled at Peacock after just a single season. The cancellation, confirmed by Variety Tuesday, comes just four months after Hysteria! dropped its first and only season at the NBCUniversal stream in October 2024.
Created by Matthew Scott Kane, Hysteria! was set in 1989 during the height of the Satanic Panic. When a local teenager is killed, things spiral out of control. Per the official synopsis: “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of
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