Clone High revival canceled at Max

The Clones are dead all over again, as Max announced tonight that the Clone High revival has been put back in the freezer

By William Hughes | July 26, 2024 | 10:13pm

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Way, way back in the 2020s/

Hopeful Warner Bros. employees/

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Dug up old MTV cartoons/

And rebooted them to mixed reviews/

Then the clones got two full seasons /

But they won’t make it, though they tried/

Because Max announced this evening/

That it’s canceling Clone High/

You’re out of time to watch Clone High…

Ahem.

So, yeah: Variety reports tonight that Max has pulled the plug on the revival series of Chris Miller, Phil Lord, and Bill Lawrence’s Clone High reboot, which ran for two seasons on the streamer, in 2023 and 2024. (Thus out-lasting the original, extremely short-lived Clone High by fully 7 episodes.) This means that Clone High is now the rare show to have managed to end itself on a cancellation-dictated cliffhanger not just once, but twice, but, hey, that’s a problem for whoever ends up masterminding the next reboot in 2052.

The series starred, as per the original, Will Forte, Nicole Sullivan, and Chris Miller’s fairly good JFK impression; incoming cast members for the new show included Vicci Martinez as Frida Kahlo and Ayo Edibiri as Harriet Tubman. The series garnered decidedly mixed notices, with many critics pointing out that the show felt torn at times between its original brand of humor—vulgar, meta, and deliberately subversive—with a desire to also correct for all the things that have become harder to stomach with it in recent years. (Mostly the whole “very white cast” thing, but also many of the “teen drama” tropes it both mocked and celebrated.)

Anyway, it’s dead now, again—although Max was nice enough to issue a condolence note for the series: “Although Max will not proceed with a third season of Clone High, we will always cherish our creative partnership with Chris Miller, Phil Lord, Bill Lawrence, Erica Rivinoja, Erik Durbin, Judah Miller, Corey Campodonico, Alex Bulkley, and the team at MTV Entertainment Studios. The incredibly talented voice actors, writers, cast and crew provided the opportunity to thaw out these legendary characters.”