Peacock cancels – Peacock has canceled its espionage drama Ponies after a single season, roughly five months after it premiered on January 15. Set in Moscow in 1977, the series followed secretaries at the U.S. embassy who become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed un
When Peacock announced its next lineup, the message came with a sharp kind of silence: Ponies is over.
The NBCUniversal streamer has canceled its espionage drama Ponies after a single season. The decision landed about five months after the series premiered as a binge release on Jan. 15.
Set in Moscow in 1977, Ponies centers on Bea and Twila, played by Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson. They work as secretaries at the U.S. embassy—“ponies,” or people of no importance to intelligence operatives. That sense of being overlooked changes quickly. When their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the Soviet Union. Bea and Twila are pulled into a CIA effort to solve what happened and uncover a conspiracy.
Clarke and Richardson aren’t the only names attached to the show. Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis also starred in the series.
The cancellation comes without the kind of public performance numbers that would make it feel simple. Peacock doesn’t regularly release viewing data for its series. Still. Ponies did not break into Nielsen’s top 10 charts for original streaming series in the few weeks after its premiere. despite receiving largely positive reviews.
For the show’s premiere week and the two weeks after, the 10th-place original on Nielsen’s charts had an average of 379 million viewing minutes—an indication of the level Ponies would have needed to reach to keep up with the strongest competitors.
Behind the scenes, Ponies was produced by Universal Television. David Iserson and Susanna Fogel created the series, with Iserson and Mike Daniels serving as co-showrunners. Fogel directed four of the show’s eight episodes. Iserson, Fogel and Daniels executive produced along with Clarke and Jessica Rhoades. Katherine Bridle, Alison Mo Massey, Jared Ian Goldman and Rosa Handelman served as co-EPs.
Now. with Ponies canceled after one season. the series’ unanswered mysteries and its CIA-conspiracy arc will remain unfinished on Peacock—at least on that platform. For viewers who found the espionage premise compelling enough to binge on Jan. 15. the timing is the sting: the show arrived. gathered attention. and then was taken off the board before it had a chance to run its course.
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So they canceled it after like 1 season?? That’s criminal lol.
I never even heard of this until today. Moscow 1977 CIA secretaries sounds kinda good though. Maybe people didn’t watch because it dropped in January? idk.
“Ponies is over” sounds like they meant horses? Like the title misled me. Also if husbands get killed in 1977 Moscow that’s literally every spy show ever, so why even act surprised it got canceled.
I binged it on Jan 15 and then it was just gone. Peacock really does that thing where they tease a conspiracy and then yank it before answers. I saw something about Nielsen minutes or whatever and now I’m mad because it sounds like it wasn’t even given a fair chance. Universal makes it sound like a big deal but then silence… classic.