timeless

In 2016 NBC premiered an ambitious series called Timeless, about a group of secret time-travelers attempting to stop another group of time-travelers from altering American history. It had the unfortunate luck of turning up at the same time as three other shows about time-travel from rival networks. They all banged into each other and cancelled each other out, including Timeless. NBC originally called its death in May 2017. But Timeless has turned out to be the scrappy underdog who just wouldn’t quit. Mere hours after its cancellation was announced, that announcement was taken back and the show was renewed for a surprise second season. That season began airing last March, but the ratings didn’t improve. So last May NBC said “this time, it’s gone for good.” If you read the headline, you know that’s not true. Timeless is back AGAIN, though not in the form you know it in, and only to say goodbye. NBC and Sony Pictures Television have reached a deal to produce a two-hour Timeless movie that

This season, four time travel shows on separate networks went head-to-head and cancelled each other out — literally. ABC’s Time After Time, Fox’s Making History, CW’s Frequency and NBC’s Timeless all debuted around the same time and caused instant fatigue for viewers. One timey-wimey show might have been able to succeed on its own, but so many at once killed interest in any of them. But hold the phone — three days after the announcement that all four were cancelled, one was just UNcancelled today: Timeless. NBC made the announcement out of nowhere this morning. The news is so unorthodox that some people are wondering if it was staged this way on purpose, since the show in question is time-travel themed. A tweet from showrunner Eric Kripke played to the theory: “The #TimeTeam went back 3 days, and changed history. @nbc picked us up for 10 episodes. Seriously. Airs next summer.” According to THR, though, this was not an intentional stunt. NBC has been placing a greater emphasis on owning