“David Wiener created a thought-provoking and cinematic adaptation. “There will not be season two of Brave New World on Peacock,” reps for UCP and Peacock said in a statement late Wednesday. Critics panned the show, which currently has a 45 percent rating on, though audiences viewed it favorably (81 percent on the aggregation site). The series debuted all nine episodes in July, when Peacock launched nationally. The series imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Morgan hasn’t ruled out a fourth book in the series.NBC and Local TV Programming to Stream Live on Peacock Beginning Later This Monthįirst put in development back in 2015 - under former Syfy president Dave Howe - and picked up to series in February 2019, David Wiener ( Homecoming) and Grant Morrison exec produced the series from UCP. Whilst Altered Carbon met its fate during the pandemic, author Richard K. You’ll notice a pattern in this list of sci-fi TV shows based on books that sadly a fair few cancelled shows are in the line-up, and Altered Carbon is no exception. Imprisoned elite solider, Takeshi Kovacs, is bought back to life to solve a murder and is in return offered the chance to be granted his freedom. This is thanks to new technologies that digitalize and store one’s consciousness, which allow human bodies to be interchangeable. Inspired by other sci-fi greats such as Doctor Who, Space: 1999, and the short stories of William Gibson, Altered Carbon explores a world where death is no longer permanent. Cast: Chris Conner, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Dichen LachmanĪltered Carbon is a Netflix Original based on the Takeshi Kovacs series of books by sci-fi writer, Richard K.

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