“Quantum Leap” has been canceled at NBC after two seasons, SCIFI.radio has confirmed. Raymond Lee, the star of Quantum Leap, posted a farewell reaction on Instagram today upon news of the show’s cancellation.
The show served as a followup to the 1989 show of the same name, which starred Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. The new series starred starred Raymond Lee as physicist Dr. Ben Song, following in the footsteps of Dr. Sam Beckett who pioneered the Quantum Leap project. He ends up being trapped in different people’s lives in the past just like Beckett was. As he seeks to put right what once went wrong in those lives, he “leaps” to different lives while hoping that each leap will be the leap home.
The cast of the series also included Caitlin Bassett, Ernie Hudson, Mason Alexander Park, and Nanrisa Lee. Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt developed the series and served as executive producers alongside Martin Gero via Quinn’s House, Dean Georgaris, Deborah Pratt, Chris Grismer, and Alex Berger. Universal Television was the studio. Gero and Georgaris served as co-showrunners.
Raymond Lee posted this personal note about the cancellation on his Instagram account:
Also bidding her fairwell on Instagram was Caitlin Bassett, who played Addison Augustine:
Quantum Leap originally made its debut on NBC in September 2022. It was renewed for a second season in December of that year. Season 2 launched in October 2023, with the season finale airing in February. Unfortunately, that’s the last we’ll see of the series.
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Bless their hearts. They thought trying to reboot something so awesome already was going to work? They really need to be looking for new material.
Did it at least end with Sam Becket coming home?