#Turner & Hooch Gets Canceled at Disney+ After One Season

Disney+ is getting out of the business of having canines helping the police solve crimes. Premiering on Disney+ over the summer, the Turner & Hooch series served as a continuation of the original 1989 movie of the same name, sharing a similar story with a new lead in Josh Peck. It’s now been reported that Disney+ has chosen to end the show with no season 2 on the all, ending the new Turner & Hooch after one season and 12 episodes.

Turner & Hooch was developed for Disney+ by Matt Nix. It follows Josh Peck as U.S. Marshal Scott Turner Jr. as he inherits an unruly dog named Hooch, following their ensuing partnership. Not helping the show’s chances was killing off the original Scott Turner, played by Tom Hanks in the original movie, as he wasn’t involved with the new show. Peck previously addressed the decision to kill off Hanks’ character, explaining that everyone knew it was unlikely Hanks would get involved so they wanted to write off the possibility right away.

“When you have someone like Tom Hanks, and everything I’ve done since I started acting is basically an attempt to try to steal from him, but you go, ‘Well, it would be lightning in a bottle if he ever decided to come play and be in an episode.’ And so I think in an effort to free that idea that that might not ever come, we’ll just allow him to not be walking the earth,” Peck previously told ComicBook.com.

Reginald VelJohnson, who reprised his role from the original movie for the TV series, also recently warned fans that bad news was imminent. He told ComicBook.com, “Well, as far as I know, they’re trying to sell it to another network or something like that. That’s what I heard. But as of now, it’s not going to be picked up, I don’t think. It was fun to do. And working with the actors was great fun and I hope so, whatever they decided to do I’m with it. It’s okay. I enjoy doing the sequel and, hopefully, we’ll have some time to do it again. But if not, I was glad for the experience.”

Roger Spottiswoode directed the original Turner & Hooch movie which starred Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. Disney previously attempted to develop a spinoff series with Tom Wilson taking over Hanks’ role, but while the show didn’t get a series order, its pilot was converted as a television movie, serving as a sequel.

Along with Josh Peck and Reginald VelJohnson, the series also starred Carra Patterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Vanessa Lengies, Brandon Jay McLaren, Jeremy Maguire, and Anthony Ruivivar. The possibility is always there that Turner & Hooch can find a new home on another streaming service, but it doesn’t seem like the most likely scenario. Perhaps it’s best for fans to appreciate the short-lived show for what it was, basically serving as a legacy sequel to the original Turner & Hooch. It’s up to you to decide if it’s better than the original movie sequel. News of the show getting canceled comes to us from Collider.

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