NBC Cancels Brilliant Minds and Stumble While 3 Other Shows Reportedly Wait in Limbo

Brilliant Minds and Stumble person some been canceled astatine NBC.

Entertainment Weekly reported that the web volition not beryllium moving guardant with follow-up seasons for either show. It's a determination that volition spot Brilliant Minds travel to an extremity with Season 2, with Stumble shuttered aft finishing its archetypal and last play successful March 2026.

Brilliant Minds aired its archetypal play successful September 2024 and was a New York City-set aesculapian play that starred Zachary Quinto (Star Trek Into Darkness) arsenic Dr. Oliver Wolf. Based connected real-life British neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, an authoritative statement for the bid said it followed Bronx General's Dr. Wolf, "whose compassionate attack leads to astounding breakthroughs successful immoderate of the world’s astir puzzling intelligence cases."

Zachary Quinto arsenic Dr. Oliver Wolf successful Brilliant Minds. Image courtesy of NBC.

Brilliant Minds Season 2 premiered successful September 2025 and took a interruption during the Olympics successful aboriginal February. Its remaining episodes are expected to statesman airing May 27.

The Hollywood Reporter reported that some Brilliant Minds and Stumble were "among NBC's slightest watched scripted bid of the season." The 2nd play of Quinto's aesculapian play averaged astatine a small much than 3 cardinal views successful its archetypal week pre-streaming. Stumble managed to propulsion successful 2.24 cardinal viewers successful the aforesaid clip frame.

Stumble began its tally successful November. The show, a drama that follows the beingness of a cheerleading manager (Jenn Lyon), ends its clip connected aerial with conscionable 13 episodes.

Stumble Season 1 Episode 13 "Daytona." Image courtesy of NBC.

"In this all-new comedy, an elite cheerleading manager has her beingness flipped upside down erstwhile she’s forced to commencement implicit with a caller squad of lovable misfits," an authoritative statement from NBC said. "But to triumph the championship, they person nary prime but to footwear it into precocious cheer."

The THR study added that NBC is inactive mulling implicit the aboriginal of Law & Order, The Hunting Party, and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. It's unclear erstwhile a determination regarding their destiny volition beryllium announced. In the meantime, the web is said to person precocious ordered 8 pilots successful anticipation for adjacent season.

While we hold to spot what NBC decides next, you tin work up connected IGN’s prime for the champion TV amusement of 2025. You tin besides work our database of the apical 100 TV shows of each time, arsenic good arsenic everything Peacock subscribers person to look guardant to successful May 2026.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).