Looking at the list of TV shows cancelled in 2025, there are definitely at least one or two gems we’ll want to re-stream in the future. That’s one good thing about living in the streaming age: Even when your favourite shows get cancelled, you can still (for the most part) revisit them whenever you wish.
Still, many fans are understandably devastated when beloved projects meet their end too soon.
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Of course, not all series that are ending this year were technically “cancelled.” Some, such as The Summer I Turned Pretty, Stranger Things, The Handmaid's Tale, You and Squid Game are simply coming to their natural ends.
Others, such as The Recruit, seem to have suffered the Netflix two-season curse, while shows like Amazon Prime’s Cruel Intentions perhaps fared better in theory than in reality.
Here are the shows that won’t be returning to your screens after 2025.
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Passenger: Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku plays a detective investigating a series of mysterious crimes. Unfortunately, ITV decided that the series won't return after its second instalment.
The Power: Perhaps the world decided the premise of The Power was just too dangerous to keep going. In the show, which was based on a novel of the same name, all the teenage girls in the world suddenly get the ability to electrocute people at will, and soon they teach the older women how to do the same. Fans of the science-fiction series, which starred Toni Collette and premiered way back in 2023, were hoping for a second season. Unfortunately, the show was officially cancelled in 2025.
**My Lady Jane: **Arguably a raunchier sister to Bridgerton, My Lady Jane straddled the world of period drama with a more fantastical world, and fans loved it. So when a second season wasn't confirmed, even though the epilogue of the first season suggested another series would follow, they were not happy.
Based on a True Story: Even with Emmy winner Kaley Cuoco at the helm, this dark comedy — about a couple whose true crime podcast gets a special boost with help from the serial killer they’re covering — was cancelled after two seasons.
**The Empress: **After three seasons, it was confirmed that the Netflix series – which followed the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria – would come to an end.
Clean Slate: Laverne Cox created and starred in this sitcom about a trans woman (Cox) reuniting with her father — who had no idea she’d transitioned. It was cancelled after one season.
The Recruit: Noah Centineo doesn’t need a rom-com plot in order to be charming and adorable, which he was as a newbie CIA agent in The Recruit. Or maybe he does, because the show was cancelled after two seasons.
Harlem: Following four 30-something female friends living in the titular NYC neighbourhood of Harlem, the series starred Meagan Good and Grace Byers, with recurring appearances by TV heavyweights Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy. Despite its positive reviews, the show was cancelled after three seasons.
The Summer I Turned Pretty: The teen soap opera, in which a newly pretty girl played by Lola Tung finds herself in a love triangle with two brothers who happen to have been family friends for her entire life, is coming to a close after three seasons. Which is in accordance with the trilogy of books the show is based on.
Cruel Intentions: Sometimes, you just can’t re-create magic. Based on the classic 1999 film of the same name, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair, the eight-episode series never quite lived up to its source material, and was cancelled after a single season.
Extraordinary: This British comedy imagines a world in which everyone develops a superpower at the age of 18 — except Jen, who’s 25 and still superpower-less. The series got generally stellar reviews and even some awards, but was still cancelled after its second season.
How to Die Alone: Starring Natasha Rothwell (you know her from The White Lotus and Insecure), How to Die Alone follows a woman who decides to take control of her own life after a near-death experience. Critics liked it, but it was cancelled after one season.
**Brassic: **The comedy drama series based in the North of England, starring Michelle Keegan, will come to a “natural end” after six seasons.
The Franchise: Everyone loves a satirical workplace sitcom, but unfortunately, they didn’t love The Franchise — which spoofed the behind-the-scenes chaos of a big-budget superhero movie production—quite enough. The show was cancelled after just one season.
The Sex Lives of College Girls: Mindy Kaling’s series about, well, the sex lives of college girls, comes to an end after three seasons, with our titular “girls” still in their sophomore year. Initially a hit, the series kind of dropped off after a while, perhaps in part due to the departure of its biggest breakout star, Renée Rapp.
**Cobra Kai: **The Karate Kid follow-up TV series has been cancelled after six seasons exploring the later lives of the movie's stars, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio).
A version of this article was originally published on GLAMOUR US.
