NBC has canceled scifi series Quantum Leap.
The news comes one month after the finale of a truncated second season featuring only 13 episodes, and a storyline involving a 3 year time gap, new romances, and new villains.
However efforts to breathe new life into the series have been in vain. Quantum Leap averaged 3.6 million total viewers and a 0.44 demo rating (with Live+7), placing it in last place among NBC’s audience, a dangerous place for any show officially “on the bubble.”
The series, which starred Raymond Lee and Caitlin Bassett was itself a reboot of the original sci-fi classic starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Set some 30 years after the events of the OG series, the show focused on a new team, led by physicist Ben Song (Lee), who restarts the Quantum Leap project in the hope of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.
The 13-episode second season ended with a two-hour finale on Feb. 20 which saw Ben and Addison reunited — but stuck in the past together.
Quantum Leap also starred Ernie Hudson, Mason Alexander Park, and and Nanrisa Lee.