It’s one and done for Lisa Kudrow and her merry band of bandits: Apple TV+ has canceled Time Bandits, the adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s classic film created by Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris, and Taika Waititi. The series focused on a young boy (played by Kal-El Tuck)—a big history nerd—who finds himself going on adventures through time with a gaggle of thieves, encountering famous figures and swiping valuable treasures.
As Deadline notes, Time Bandits was well-received, but didn’t have enough viewers to make it into Nielsen’s top ten streaming charts. NPR said, “Its time travel is the most delightfully playful since Mr. Peabody set his Wayback Machine on Rocky And Bullwinkle,” and in the Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper wrote that the series “finds that sweet spot between simply tracing over the original and straying too far from the source material, the result being a breezy, slyly humorous, rousing adventure suitable for all but the very youngest of viewers.”
Time Bandits also starred Charlyne Yi, Tadhg Murphy, Rune Temte, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Rachel House, Kiera Thompson, James Dryden, Felicity Ward, Francesca Mills, and Imaan Hadchiti, with Clement and Waititi showing up as Pure Evil and the Supreme Being, respectively. Its first and only season is available to watch on Apple TV+.
