We all know show business can be a bit cruel from time to time, and doing what’s best for a studio or a specific project isn’t always the same thing as doing what’s most considerate for the people involved. That being said, there’s being “a bit cruel” and then there’s waiting a little over a month after someone was diagnosed with the coronavirus to cancel their TV show. (To be fair, the TV show in question didn’t seem all that great and its one season aired over a year ago, but still.)
Obviously, we’re talking about Idris Elba’s Turn Up Charlie on Netflix, which took Elba’s real-life passion for being a DJ and made it into a TV show about a guy who looks like Idris Elba and wants to be a DJ. Netflix has now canceled the show, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, it announced the news with a statement thanking Elba and the show’s executive producers for creating such a “witty, heart-warming comedy series.” The statement does not, as far as we can tell, apologize to Elba for canceling his TV show even though he tested positive for the coronavirus in March. We’re not saying Idris Elba deserves to get special treatment and that Netflix should make another season of this show just to be nice, but we are saying that Netflix could’ve just stayed quiet forever and nobody would’ve noticed if it had canceled the show or not. Elba’s got a lot going on, even he probably won’t be buying “#SaveTheOA” billboards for this.
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No matter what happens, Idris Elba will always be that big sexy cat who made me question my sexuality.
…..you thought you were gay, then you saw Cats and realised, “nope…”
:/
I so wish you were using “cat” in the hep slang way.
Right, as if you hadn’t questioned it before. lulz…
Shere Khan, right?
RELEASE THE BUTTHOLE CUT!
Taylor Swift and Idris Elba dancing and singing “McCavity’s not there” was the greatest part of that nightmarish movie. And by greatest, I mean the part I laughed the hardest at.
Poor Idris Elba. Hope he catches a break some time.
Elba has the whole cancellation gig in the bag because he was already CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE!!!!111!!!
Elba doesn’t need this money anyways….and he’s British, so his socialist medicare, THAT laughingstock, reduced his costs. He’s fine just being that hot dude who shows up in other people’s movies….Plus his own British series’
Plus he can have any woman in the world purely be staring at them with one eyebrow raised. I’m a straight male, and even I’m kind of into him.
But without his Netflix income how else is he going to expand his Star Trek captain portrait collection?
Look, as long as he’s aware of the effect he has on women, I’m good.Okay, good.
I didn’t hate Turn Up Charlie, but it wasn’t good. And it certainly never occurred to me that a sequel was even on the table.
That said, I’m confident Eldra will land on his feet. Speaking of which, I’ll leave you with 3 words: “Macavity Origin Story”
That just sounds like the fabled butthole cut.
I love how Macavity is repeatedly called the Napoleon of crime and sung as some criminal mastermind, when the worst he does is teleport some people, dance and generally be kind of annoying.
. . . the worst he does is . . . dance and generally be kind of annoying.So, the Napoleon Dynamite of crime?
Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to Jon Hedger. Then I see a clip of Napoleon Dynamite and get kind of happy that he appears to be in witness protect in Siberia.
If no one wanted to see Van der Beek as Diplo, I don’t understand why anyone thought this had a shot.No one cares about the struggle of the DJ. Not Danny, not Aunt Becky, and certainly not Uncle Jessie.
couldn’t imagine what a second-season of that show would look like.
Plus, I feel this show was getting in the way of his true calling: being rumored to be the next James Bond for the next decade.
Watched Turn Up Charlie when it premiered. Idris was great, the show wasn’t.Nobody wants to see Idris Elba as a sad sack loser constantly getting bossed around by a precocious child. We want to see him as a cool bad-ass, yet caring lawyer (Molly’s Game) or a cool bad-ass “Black Superman” (Hobbes & Shaw).And by “we” I mean “I”…