Netflix Cancels The Big Show Show

The World's Largest Family Sitcom scrapped after one season.

by Andy H Murray
The Big Show Show
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The Big Show Show is dead, long live The Big Show Show.

Deadline is reporting that Netflix will not be renewing the former WWE Champion's family sitcom for a second series, though a special Christmas episode will air this December has planned. The report states that the streaming platform had already filmed said special after making their decision to can season number two.

Rather than acting as a grand finale, The Big Show Show's Christmas special is a standalone produced before the onset of the ongoing global health crisis.

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The Big Show Show's original eight-episode run hit Netflix all at once on 6 April, with the 'World's Largest Athlete' starring as a family man struggling to adapt to normal life following his pro-wrestling retirement. The series met mixed critical reviews, with IGN's Matt Fowler stating that while it had "the potential to be either wholly terrible or fully great," it ended up lying "somewhere in between as Big Show proves himself to be an amiable, glowing, towering family man capable of carrying multi-cam sitcom shenanigans."

Big Show's last WWE appearance came on the 20 July episode of Raw, where he was defeated by Randy Orton.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for six years and is currently WhatCulture's Senior Wrestling Reporter. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.