Netflix cancels supernatural Sherlock Holmes riff The Irregulars

Netflix has cancelled The Irregulars, its supernatural YA riff on the Sherlock Holmes saga, even though it reportedly pulled in good numbers.

According to Variety, Netflix’s supernatural crime drama The Irregulars was the top-rated streaming show the week it debuted, with around 643 million minutes streamed to its credit. Well, either the Nielsen numbers were wrong or something happened behind the scenes, because Netflix has cancelled the show after one season.

The Irregulars was a riff on Ser Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books, reimagining a group of errand runners and informants from the original stories as a headstrong group of street kids who help Doctor Watson and drug-addicted Holmes solve a series of increasingly supernatural crimes. The cast (Thaddea Graham, McKell David, Jojo Macari, Harrison Osterfield and Darci Shaw) was appealing and the show did pretty well with critics, but obviously it wasn’t enough for Netflix to keep it around for another go.

Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes have gotten a workout in recent years, whether it’s the movies with Robert Downey Jr., the show with Benedict Cumberbatch or the Netflix film about Sherlock’s little sister Enola Holmes, played by Mille Bobby Brown. These stories are in the public domain and you can tell. So even though The Irregulars is gone, I wouldn’t be surprised if some new variation on the Sherlock saga popped up before long.

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