This is certainly not the news you want to start off the spooky season with. According to a report in Variety, Syfy and USA Network have canceled the horror/comedy series Chucky after three seasons. Apparently, there was some talk of doing a shorter fourth season, or possibly a movie, to wrap up the storylines. Ultimately, those talks went nowhere. Chucky, which focuses on the killer doll who starred in seven films in the Child’s Play franchise, premiered in 2021. From the start, the series got lots of love from the fans. Series creator Don Mancini had this to say in a statement:
I’m heartbroken over the news that Chucky won’t be coming back for a fourth season, but am so grateful for the killer three years we did have. I’d like to thank UCP/SYFY/Peacock/Eat the Cat, our awesome cast and Toronto-based crew (the best in the business), and finally, to our amazing fans, a big bloody hug. Your incredible #RenewChucky campaign really warmed Chucky’s cold heart. Chucky will return! He ALWAYS come back.
Mancini is not wrong about his creation Chucky always finding a way to come back from the grave. Many fans believed that after the 2019 reboot of Child’s Play, which Mancini was not involved with, that would be the end of the original iteration of the character. But the version voiced by Brad Dourif returned for the TV series, which ignored the events of the reboot and continued on from the original continuity. Don Mancini has written all seven Chucky films since the first Child’s Play back in 1988, never abandoning his beloved (and homicidal) Good Guys doll. You just can’t keep a good slasher down, and Chucky is no exception. Right now, it’s just a question of when, and how, Charles Lee Ray will come back to torment us all.
