Disney+ is no longer feeling Goosebumps.
The streamer has canceled its Goosebumps series, based on the enduringly popular books by R.L. Stine, after two seasons. The most recent season, subtitled The Vanishing, premiered in January.
Sony Pictures TV, which owns the rights to Stine’s books and produced the series, will shop Goosebumps to other outlets and also look for other creative directions for the property. There are more than 200 stories in Stine’s original Goosebumps books, spinoff series and short story collections.
Goosebumps on Disney+ was an anthology series. The first season premiered on Disney+ in October 2023 — a few weeks before Halloween — and performed solidly, ranking among Nielsen’s top 10 original streaming series for four weeks. Season two debuted in January and didn’t do as well, never making the Nielsen charts.
To date, sources say, viewers have watched 118 million hours of Goosebumps worldwide — 75 million in the United States and 43 million in 16 international markets.
The season one cast featured Justin Long, Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna, Ana Yi Puig, Will Price and Rachael Harris. Season two starred David Schwimmer, Jayden Bartels, Sam McCarthy, Ana Ortiz, Elijah M. Cooper, Francesca Noel and Galilea La Salvia.
Nicholas Stoller and Rob Letterman developed Goosebumps, which previously was adapted as a 1990s series on Fox and for two feature films in the 2010s, with Letterman directing the first. They executive produced with showrunner Hilary Winston, Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment, Conor Welch, and Erin O’Malley.
Variety first reported the news.