The news is not entirely surprising. Dead Boy Detectives spent just three weeks in Netflix's Top 10 for English-language series, peaking at #2 in Week 1 behind phenomenon Baby Reindeer.
Dead Boy Detectives is based on the comics of the same name by Neil Gaiman and is part of the Sandman Universe. It follows Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), "the brains" and "the brawn" behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts... who solve mysteries.
They will do anything to stay together - including escaping evil witches, hell and death itself. With the help of a psychic named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they crack some of the mortal realm's most mysterious paranormal cases.
The eight-episode series also starred Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Ruth Connell, Lukas Gage and David Iacono.
Dead Boy Detectives was developed for television by Steve Yockey, who wrote the first episode and served as showrunner alongside Beth Schwartz as co-showrunner.
Greg Berlanti, Yockey, Schwartz, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Gaiman served as executive producers of the series from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. The first episode was produced and directed by Lee Toland Krieger.
