


Peacock has canceled Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin after just one season, reversing its previous decision to renew the Adam Devine-starrer for Season 2.
The NBCUniversal platform had announced the show’s renewal back in January shortly after the conclusion of its six-episode first season.
At the time of the renewal, NBCU said Bumper in Berlin was Peacock’s top comedy series to date, but did not provide any viewing data.
The cancellation comes amid Hollywood’s dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which do not have a clear ending in sight.
Other shows that have suffered a similar fate include Prime Video’s The Peripheral and A League of Their Own.
According to Deadline, Bumper in Berlin was already behind schedule and had not yet started preproduction on Season 2 when the WGA strike began on May 2.
The WGA and the AMPTP have returned to the negotiating table over the last week, but a fair deal has not yet been reached. Now spanning five months, the strike has come closer to beating the guild’s previous record for its longest strike in history, which took place in 1988 and lasted 154 days.
Starring Devine as Bumper Allen, which was a reprisal of his role from the Pitch Perfect movies, Bumper in Berlin followed the acapella singer as he attempts to launch his music career in Germany where one of his songs took off.
The Peacock original series also starred Flula Borg, Sarah Hyland, Lera Abova and Jameela Jamil. Megan Amram (The Good Place) served as showrunner and executive producer alongside Pitch Perfect 2 director Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, Devine and more.