‘Goosebumps’ Television Series Cancelled After Two Seasons at Disney+

The “Goosebumps” franchise returned to the small screen in 2023 with a Disney+ series that was only loosely inspired by R.L. Stine’s classic books, and the series essentially rebooted for the second season – titled “Goosebumps: The Vanishing” – with all new characters and an all-new story. But after just two seasons, we’ve learned that “Goosebumps” has been cancelled.

Variety reports this afternoon, “According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, series producer Sony Pictures Television plans to shop the show to other outlets and explore different creative directions for the IP.” In other words, the Goosebumps property is far from dead on the small screen, but this particular take on the franchise isn’t likely to continue.

The site’s exclusive report also notes, “The two seasons pulled in 75 million hours viewed combined in the U.S., on top of 43 million hours viewed across 16 international markets.”

The Goosebumps property has proven to be massively popular across the decades, with new books still being made and sold on a regular basis to this day. The property of course made its way onto the big screen with the successful Goosebumps movie in 2015, and it was later followed by the lower grossing big screen sequel Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween in 2018.

But it was on the small screen that adaptations of R.L. Stine’s tales originally lived, with the original live action television series running for four seasons between 1995 and 1998.

While the original series adapted the books on an episode-by-episode basis, the Disney+ series instead made the decision to loosely draw inspiration from the books. The characters and storylines were largely new creations for the series, with iconic monsters and characters from Stine’s Goosebumps books finding their way into the show’s storylines from time to time.

The new series was created by Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller for Disney+ and Hulu.

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