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Vote for the Best Show That Got Canceled in 2016
It’s time for the Yahooies, Yahoo TV’s second annual reader-voted awards honoring the best — and sometimes worst — of 2016. Each day through Dec. 16, we will announce the nominees for one category, with an accompanying poll. The winners will be crowned Monday, Dec. 19.
- EntertainmentKimberly Potts
Producer Howard Gordon Talks ’24: Legacy,’ the Future of ‘Tyrant,’ and ‘Homeland’ in New York
Don’t give up hope yet, 'Tyrant' fans: executive producer Howard Gordon told Yahoo TV the recently canceled-by-FX drama could live on, be it on a streaming service and/or in an international version.
- EntertainmentKimberly Potts
‘Tyrant’ Series Finale Postmortem: Adam Rayner on Barry’s Full Circle Journey and the Chances of the FX Series Living on Elsewhere
When Tyrant star Adam Rayner talked to Yahoo TV on Tuesday evening, tonight’s “Two Graves” installment was a season finale. In a follow-up chat on Wednesday, Rayner said the news of the cancellation didn’t come as a total shock, but it is a disappointment. “Until I was given [an indication] from fairly credible sources, I was hopeful, but it was never going to be a huge surprise, because we know that we were never a huge rating success, and we were never a huge critical success,” Rayner said.
- NewsKen Tucker
‘Tyrant’: Soapy Drama Without Much Pop
Back for a third season, Tyrant is making another mighty effort to overcome its by-now-perennial shortcomings as a soapy drama set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics and culture. Brothers Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) and Jamal Al-Fayeed (Ashraf Barhom) still compete to rule the fictional country of Abuddin. The end of the second season found Jamal wounded, and now Barry—always the reluctant leader whom we know is destined to lead, an inner conflict that’s become an outer
