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When it was announced that the famous DC comic Dead Boy Detectives was getting a television adaptation, fans were overjoyed. The show was a unique blend of dark humor and supernatural mystery that masterfully stayed authentic to the source material, greatly contributing to its appeal.

Hence, it was extremely shocking and disheartening for the fans when the show, despite being highly acclaimed, was canceled after its first season.

A still from Dead Boy Detectives | Credits: Netflix

It sometimes happens that projects with huge potential and plausibility to succeed reach their end in a way that feels premature. Dead Boy Detectives was one such show, that had its journey cut short and did not deserve it.

Set in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman universe, the show follows two ghosts, Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne who chose not to enter the afterlife after their untimely passing. Instead, they decided to pick up...

As another year comes to an end, we start to look back at the TV shows we said goodbye to. Some cancellations hurt way more than others!

For this list, we’re looking at cancellations only, rather than shows that were given a final season order. It’s important to distinguish between the two. While being final seasoned hurts, cancellations tend to hurt more because the shows end on major cliffhangers with no resolutions.

All of these shows are either streaming originals or they can be watched on a streaming platform—and likely aren’t leaving those platforms any time soon. I still always recommend getting the DVDs or buying the digital copies of your favorite shows if you can, though, because you never know what the streaming platforms will do—yes, Max, we’re still looking at you!

Here are the six cancellations from 2024 that we’re still extremely salty about.

Netflix has axed several shows in 2024 and a few are really angering fans!

It can be hard to be a Netflix subscriber. The streamer is home to some fantastic shows, many of which no other network or creator would take a chance on. Sadly, far too often, a great show only lasts one season, with Netflix canceling them for sometimes little rhyme or reason.

2024 was no different, with several shows ending. To be fair, a few weren’t that good, so they likely deserved the axing. Others just were rather forgettable so no big loss. But then there are a few shows that had great critical acclaim and amassed a loyal following, only to be canceled with little warning.

It’s aggravating and worse when some seem to have been given little chance to grow. Here are the shows Netflix has canceled in 2024 that really stick in the craw of...

Netflix’s television adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman lurks in the form of Season 2, which will likely arrive over two years after Season 1 first debuted on the streamer in August 2022.

Netflix also launched Dead Boy Detectives, based on another of Gaiman’s comic books set within the universe of The Sandman in April 2024, which adds layers to the story and realm. Season 2 paused production during the double strike in Hollywood in 2023, but now that they are back on track, casting news has been announced as the finish line is becoming less Endless for the next installment of the series.

Read on for everything we knew about The Sandman Season 2:

Is The Sandman Season 2 in production?

November 29, 2023, saw the second installment of The Sandman return to production. Neil Gaiman, who wrote the comic books on which the series is based, wrote a letter about the re-start of production...

Dead Boy Detectives fans were distraught to learn that Netflix had chosen not to renew their beloved show for a second season. It's not surprising, as the streamer has developed a bit of a reputation for cancelling promising young adult supernatural dramas, but it is still incredibly disheartening considering there aren't that many YA dramas on television anymore - and that the show is brilliant.

The series focused on ghosts Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland, who bonded in the afterlife and, instead of going with Death to receive their fates, decided to stay on Earth and help other ghosts solve their mysteries and find peace. Edwin, in particular, wasn't keen to go with Death, as he had already spent 70 years in Hell based on a technicality and refused to go back there after managing an unlikely escape.

Audiences loved Edwin and Charles, and the team they formed with Crystal Palace...

La serie estaba basada en los cómics de Neil Gaiman y formaba parte del universo ‘Sandman’. © Netflix

De acuerdo con Variety, Netflix ha decidido cancelar Dead Boy Detectives, la serie basada en los cómics homónimos de Neil Gaiman y parte del universo Sandman, tras solo una temporada.

Dead Boy Detectives sigue a Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) y Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), dos adolescentes que, aunque separados por décadas en vida, se encuentran en la muerte y forman una agencia de detectives paranormales. Junto con la clarividente Crystal (Kassius Nelson) y su amigo Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), los protagonistas resuelven algunos de los casos paranormales más desconcertantes del reino de los mortales.

La cancelación marca el final de un proyecto con un recorrido tortuoso antes de llegar a Netflix. Originalmente encargado por Max, el piloto de Dead Boy Detectives se desarrolló en 2021 y la serie completa en 2022. Después fue adquirida por Netflix...

Bad news for fans of Dead Boy Detectives! The quirky supernatural detective series has been prematurely axed by Netflix, leaving us all wondering what could have been. According to Variety, the show, developed by Steve Yockey and based on the DC Comics characters created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, won’t be returning for a second season.

It’s a bit of a shock, considering the series only just made its debut on April 25, 2024, with a promising first season of eight episodes. But despite its initial success, the Netflix execs have decided to lay our favorite ghostly gumshoes to rest ... permanently.

Dead Boy Detectives. (L to R) Jayden Revri as Charles Rowland and George Rexstrew as Edwin Payne in episode 8 of Dead Boy Detectives. Cr. Ed Araquel/Netflix © 2023

For those who might not be familiar, Dead Boy Detectives is a part of the broader Sandman universe and follows the...

It's one and done for Dead Boy Detectives. According to Variety, Netflix has cancelled the supernatural dramedy series after just one season. The series premiered on the streaming service in April.

George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Kassius Nelson, Yuyu Kitamura, Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Lukas Gage, David Iacono, and Ruth Connell star in the Dead Boy Detectives series. The story follows a team of two humans and two ghosts as they investigate paranormal mysteries. It's based on characters created for DC Comics by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner.

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Sad news for fans of Dead Boy Detectives – the supernatural horror detective comedy-drama series won’t be moving forward with another season as Netflix decided to drop the axe on the promising franchise. The show premiered on the platform in April this year and received mostly positive reviews.

Credits: Jayden Revri and George Rexstrew in Dead Boy Detectives / Netflix

It was originally slated for a Max release, but seeing the characters did not fit the vision of James Gunn and Peter Safran for their DC-Max agreement, the series was sold to Netflix. It became a part of The Sandman universe.

Netflix Officially Axed Dead Boy Detectives After Season 1

Netflix has notoriously earned the impression of canceling beloved shows for various reasons, but the company may not be considering the long-term implications of this move. Subscribers pay to watch their favorite shows, and as they invest time and money in a particular series,...

The Dead Boy Detectives have been sent to the afterlife prematurely.

Despite positive reviews (92% on Rotten Tomatoes) and strong viewership (at least initially), Variety reports that Netflix's supernatural mystery series has been cancelled after just a single season.

The show - which is set in the same universe as The Sandman - got off to a strong start, managing to stay in the Netflix Top 10 English TV charts for three weeks after its release. It racked-up just 3.1 million views in its first three days of availability (Netflix defines a view as total series runtime divided by total hours viewed) before climbing to 4.7 million. It then dropped to just 1.8 million views in week three before falling off the Top 10 chart.

Created by Neil Gaiman, the undead duo were first introduced in the pages of The Sandman before going on to appear in the likes of The Books of Magic, Children's Crusade,...

It's a sad day for fans of Dead Boy Detectives, Netflix's YA offshoot of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Variety has reported that the series will not return for a second season. Though the news doesn't come as a huge surprise, given that there's been no word on the show since its April debut, it's still a disappointment to those who were hopeful the series would continue.

Dead Boy Detectives was a little bit of an oddity in itself since the series was originally going to air on Max and connect more to the DC universe (it's based on the DC comic book series of the same name) but then was later moved to Netflix, which made sense because The Sandman, another series set in the Gaiman universe, was already airing there and Dead Boy Detectives featured a couple of little crossovers between the two Netflix series.

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Case closed, whether you like it or not. Variety reports that Dead Boy Detectives has been cancelled by Netflix after just one season.

Based on characters created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, Dead Boy Detectives follows Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), two teen ghosts who work alongside a clairvoyant (Kassius Nelson) to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele — until a powerful witch complicates their plans. The series takes place in the same universe as The Sandman, which was renewed for a second season. Steve Yockey developed Dead Boy Detectives and served as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Beth Schwartz. Greg Berlanti, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, and Gaiman also served as executive producers of the series.

Dead Boy Detectives was originally set up at Max, which ordered a pilot in 2021 before giving it a series order a year later. However, the series made...

The past couple of years have been pretty rough for DC Comics fans. Not only was the cinematic landscape rocked by the cancellation of all things related to the DC Extended Universe due to the new leadership at Warner Bros. Discovery, The CW's long-running Arrowverse was brought to a premature end by the new leadership at that network as well.

Some titles have remained behind to fill the gap in between, as Warner Bros. prepares to launch the new era of DC movies and TV shows under the DC Studios umbrella. This new shared universe will simply be known as the DC Universe and will be overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran. But. like I said, not all of the classic shows have ended just yet, with Max's animated series Harley Quinn set to return for a fifth season and The CW's Superman and Lois getting a fourth and final season.

Netflix has pulled the plug on Dead Boy Detectives, a fun show with a lot of promise and a passionate fanbase, according to Variety. Such is life on the world's streamer.

In all seriousness, it's not too surprising that the show has been canceled. Dead Boy Detectives, about a pair of dead boys who became detectives, stayed on the list of Netflix's Top 10 most watched shows for three weeks before falling off. It amassed millions of views but not millions enough. Still, considering the positive reception among fans and critics both — it has a 92% score among critics and 90% among fans on Rotten Tomatoes — it's a shame that it's ending this early. The good ones go young...again.

The show was based on a comic series of the same name, which itself was a spinoff of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comics, which Netflix is also turning into a TV show...

The Night Nurse may not have been able to drag the Dead Boy Detectives out of the world of the living, but Netflix could. The streamer has canceled their adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comics after just one season, TheWrap has learned.

The series starred Jayden Revri and George Rexstrew as Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne respectively, a pair of teenagers who were both killed unexpectedly. When they meet in the afterlife, they quickly become best friends and decide to team up to form a detective agency, which gives both the comics that served as the inspiration and the show itself its title.

Together, the ghosts solve supernatural mysteries that only they are capable of solving. The thing is, they aren’t supposed to hang around the world of the living. Because Edwin was technically a sacrifice (mostly unintentionally), he’s supposed to reside in hell. Both boys are on...

There will be no second season for Dead Boy Detectives. Netflix has canceled the series after one season, sources confirm to Deadline.

The first season, which dropped on April 25, will now be the final season for the show, which was originally set up at Max.

Based on the comics of the same name by Neil Gaiman and part of The Sandman Universe, Dead Boy Detectives followed Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries.

They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

Dead Boy Detectives has been canceled.

On Friday (August 30), it was announced that the series based on the beloved comic series from Neil Gaiman had been canceled by Netflix after one season, Variety reported.

George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri starred in the series as the dead boys, who became friends in the afterlife and teamed up to solve supernatural mysteries.

Keep reading to find out more…The series also starred Kassius Nelson, Yuyu Kitamura, Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, David Iacono, Lukas Gage, and Ruth Connell.

The first and only season of Dead Boy Detectives debuted in April 2024 on Netflix.

Dead Boy Detectives was part of the of Sandman franchise. A second season of The Sandman is currently in the works on the streaming platform.

See a list of all the shows canceled by Netflix so far in 2024.

The Dead Boy Detectives have crossed over to the TV afterlife.

Netflix has cancelled the DC Comics-inspired series after just one season, TVLine has confirmed. The cancellation comes four months after Dead Boy Detectives‘ first (and now only) season dropped on April 25.

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Netflix has taken Dead Boy Detectives off the case.

The series, set in the same fictional universe as The Sandman, won’t return for a second season. The news comes about four months after the show’s eight-episode season premiered on Netflix.

Dead Boy Detectives, from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions, took a winding road to its Netflix debut. It was originally set up at Max, which ordered a pilot for the show in 2021 and gave it a series order a year later. Amid a shake-up at Warner Bros. and DC (the show is based on characters from comics by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner), however, the series moved to Netflix in February 2023 and finally premiered 14 months later.

The series, starring George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri as the title characters, earned largely positive reviews; The Hollywood Reporter critic Angie Han said Dead Boy Detectives is “never less than entertaining,...

Over in the broadcast television world, it's cancellation jitters season as the networks start to announce all of the renewals and cancellations ahead of the reveal of their fall schedules. However, over here in Netflix Land, it's always cancellation jitters season.

Netflix has already handed out a number of renewals and cancellations in 2024, including axing Obliterated after one season and renewing Heartbreak High for a third and final season. But a handful of fan-favorite Netflix shows released this spring are still awaiting word on their fates. There's cause for concern for all of them (except one), though more than one should receive good news.

Here are three Netflix shows currently in the running for a renewal and an additional two that should be renewed but are looking more like cases for cancellation.

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“Dead Boy Detectives” has been canceled at Netflix. The series aired its one and only season at the streamer on April 25.

Thus ends the show’s twisty path to the screen. It originally got a pilot order at Max in 2021 and then a series order at that streamer in 2022 before it was sold to Netflix in 2023. It was reported at the time that the sale took place because the show, which is based on characters created for DC by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, did not fit with the new direction for Max-dc content being spearheaded by James Gunn and Peter Safran.

At Netflix, it was a part of the “Sandman” universe, as the Dead Boy Detectives were first introduced in an issue of “The Sandman” comic book. Netflix currently airs “The Sandman” TV series, with a second season on the way.

George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri starred as the titular dead boys,...

As of this writing on Aug. 23, it's been 120 days since Dead Boy Detectives made its premiere on Netflix on April 25. Since then, a loyal fandom has amassed online to show support for the show and, naturally, band together to hope for a season 2 renewal.

Within those 120 days, Netflix has not indicated whether the show has been renewed or canceled, and for the sake of the show's adoring fans, I hope this sentence ages like milk. However, as it stands, a new Instagram post from series star George Rexstrew has the fandom wondering if a renewal announcement could be coming soon.

On Aug. 23, Rexstrew posted a clip from the series with the caption, "As long as the red Earth rolls..." Devoted viewers instantly recognized that the caption comes from the Rudyard Kipling poem titled "The Sack of the Gods" that's recited by Death in the first episode of Dead Boy Detectives.

The Umbrella Academy has just premiered its final season, but there are plenty of options for shows if you like it!

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Thankfully, there are some good shows just like Umbrella Academy out there. Some are based on comic books, a mix of superheroes, fantasy, sci-fi, and more with an offbeat style and pretty crazy. Streaming offers many options, while these fifteen shows are right up the alley for Umbrella Academy fans to check out if you want an unusual type of heroic show!

“Dead Boy Detectives” premiered on Netflix April 25 and brought with it not just a gorgeously stylized supernatural mystery and a villain for the ages in evil (but beautiful!) witch Esther, but a cleverly constructed world that was easy to lose oneself in. Set mostly in the Pacific Northwest, Season 1 followed the titular ghosts, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri), their living but amnesiac clairvoyant friend Crystal (Kassius Nelson), and a bevy of new friends, enemies, and one very unexpected detour into Hell. By season’s end, some mysteries had been solved, and others left dangling appetizingly. The biggest one of all, though, remains intact: What will Season 2 bring?

Netflix has not yet announced if “Dead Boy Detectives” will score a Season 2, but that doesn’t mean executive producers Steve Yockey and Beth Schwartz haven’t spent time thinking about it. In fact, the reception to Season 1 has only fueled more creative decisions.

[This story contains spoilers from Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives.]

Dead Boy Detectives star George Rexstrew is quick to describe his first in-person encounter with his co-stars ahead of filming the pilot: “Love at first sight.”

Up to that point, interactions between the leads of the Netflix series that released April 25 had taken place during chemistry reads through computer screens. But with filming commencing, Rexstrew would meet Jayden Revri at Heathrow Airport where they flew from London to Vancouver. A day later, Kassius Nelson would join them.

“We built such an incredible relationship before we even read a script,” Revri tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We were just so open and we really helped each other. We had the most beautiful relationship, us four together.”

Those four are Revri, Rexstrew, Nelson and Yuyu Kitamura, the latter who says she was exposed to her costars “British charm” on the Vancouver set for only a few hours during the pilot,...

As “the brains” of the Dead Boy Detectives agency, teenage ghost Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) is used to knowing all the answers.

When it comes to his feelings however, he’s been told since he was alive — back in 1916 — to keep quiet. But now that he’s realizing those feelings aren’t going anywhere, it’s hard to hold them back. Especially when he realizes he’s in love with his business partner and best friend of 30 years, Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri). In the “Anatomy of a Queer Scene” video above, Rexstrew and Revri break down the pivotal moments in Edwin’s queer journey in Season 1 of Dead Boy Detectives.

In the video, Revri and Rexstrew spotlight Episode 7, “The Case of the...

Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) and Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) are masters in their field. As the Dead Boy Detectives, they specialize in solving supernatural cases that would otherwise remain unsolved — like their own deaths. So cracking the lingering “Case of the Devlin House” should just be a feather in their cap, right?

Well, let’s review how it meets their criteria as a case only they could solve: After freeing Niko (Yuyu Kitamura) from her Sprites infestation in Episode 2, the Dead Boy Detectives, Niko, and clairvoyant Crystal (Kassius Nelson) are ready to take on a new client in Episode 3. When freshly minted ghost Susan arrives in their office (aka Crystal’s apartment), she presumes they know the terrifying lore of the Devlin family’s murder in 1994. But as they’re new in town, alas, they do not.

They soon learn this woman’s brother-in-law snapped one night and killed his...

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It wouldn’t be the first or last young adult series in the U.S. to generate a cultural frenzy. But the industry ecosystem that birthed and defined zeitgeisty YA shows like it — 22-episode drama series with largely white casts found through in-person auditions — is vanishing. As viewers have increasingly abandoned broadcast and cable TV, the linear networks these shows called home (Fox, The WB, Upn, The CW, MTV and Freeform) have also faced mergers, acquisitions, multiple rebrands or given...

While it’s case closed for theDead Boy Detectives’ supernatural adventures in Season 1, there’s still plenty of mysteries to unravel — and we have some questions.

Over the course of eight episodes, the ghost teens behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency — early 1900s young gentleman Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and 1980s “rude boy” Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) — have assisted spirits stuck in the living world with their biggest challenges. They’ve seen it all: paranormal parasites, déjà vu in a haunted house, and even a butcher shop date gone awry.

With the help of their totally alive friend, the clairvoyant Crystal Palace (Kassius Nelson), and her bubbly bud Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), the boys also faced down evil witch Esther Finch (Jenn Lyon). But she’s not the only evil out there.

Based on the comics from Neil Gaiman, Dead Boy Detectives plugs into Netflix’s Sandman Universe, as the boys...

Once set up at the Max streaming service, the TV series Dead Boy Detectives, which is based on characters Neil Gaiman created for DC Comics in the pages of The Sandman issue #25, is now calling Netflix its home, having moved away from Max last year because it “doesn’t fit with DC executives James Gunn and Peter Safran’s plans for the Dcu.” The show premiered on April 25th (you can read our review Here) – and to mark the occasion, a new addition to the team here at JoBlo.com, Kyanna Mondezie, was given the opportunity to conduct interviews with several members of the cast: George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Kassius Nelson, and Yuyu Kitamura. You can hear what they had to say about their experience working on the show by checking out the video embedded above. Also interviewed were series creator Steve Yockey and showrunner Beth Schwartz.

Since these characters were...

Charles (Jayden Revri) and Edwin (George Rexstrew) would move heaven and earth and the entire underworld for each other. In Dead Boy Detectives, the duo spends their afterlife solving mysteries for the undead, but the love they have for each other is at the heart of the show. Somewhere during their decades together, Edwin’s feelings for Charles started to shift. He develops romantic feelings for his best friend and eventually confesses his love after Charles rescues him from Hell. Co-showrunner Steve Yockey tells TV Insider that the “goal” of the first season was always to “tell the story of Edwin’s discovery of his identity. And not just the discovery of his identity after 100 years of being dead, but 60 years of that spent in Hell.” As you see in the first season, Edwin begins to recognize his sexual identity for the first time. Since Edwin lived during the Edwardian era,...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers from the entire first season of “Dead Boy Detectives,” now streaming on Netflix.

The Dead Boy Detectives may have closed the case of Port Townsend, but they don’t jump back through the mirror to merry old London the same boys they once were.

In the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “Dead Boy Detectives” comic books, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) find themselves in the well-manicured clutches of resident witch Esther (Jenn Lyon), who is hellbent on bottling the youthful elixir she brews from the anguish attached to Edwin’s soul from his decades of torture in Hell. Pesky witches, always trying to steal childhood trauma for their skin care routine.

But with the help of Crystal (Kassius Nelson), who has restored her rather unwelcome memories of being a horrible person, and Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), the sweetest soul ever to exist,...

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Dead Boy Detectives is officially on Netflix, and it stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri as the titular duo.

The show is based on the DC and Vertigo comics by Neil Gaiman, who co-created the characters in The Sandman III with Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III. 

The detectives themselves are the undead young boys Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the latter of whom Rexstrew plays.

Read full article on The Direct.

Within the first seven minutes, Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives tells you exactly what its greatest love story is going to be. Hanging onto the ledge outside the London offices of their supernatural detective agency, Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) are waiting out a visit from Death. Kirby reprises her casually cool and soothingly collected version of the reaper from Netflix’s other Neil Gaiman adaptation The Sandman. If Death catches them, it would mean being carted off to the afterlife and separated. For 30 years, the two eternal teenagers have walked just behind the veil of our world as an unbreakable pair and two pretty damn-good detectives. In a tragic sense of irony, they were each other’s first real friend –– they just didn’t meet until after they died. Edwin met his fate in 1916 after being sacrificed to a demon by the bullies of his...

Netflix just got a touch more supernatural with the arrival of “Dead Boy Detectives” where the veil between the worlds thins. This chilling new series isn’t a typical detective show. Based on the DC characters by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, the series involves restless spirits, vengeful demons, and the occasional existential crisis – all tackled by a most unusual duo: a pair of teenage ghosts.

A still from Dead Boy Detectives

Jayden Revri and George Rexstrew step up to the challenge of bringing the two ghosts to life. Their dedication to the source material is so good that it might impress the likes of even Henry Cavill himself.

Jayden Revri and George Rexstraw Read A Lot of Sandman Comics To Prepare For Dead Boy Detectives

A still from Dead Boy Detectives

In order to fully embody their characters and create a connection to the Sandman universe, both Jayden Revri...

Netflix has recently released a new addition to its Sandman universe called Dead Boy Detectives. Continuing in the magnificent world created by Neil Gaiman in the DC Universe, the show follows the story of two teenage ghosts who, along with a clairvoyant, work as supernatural detectives. The concept comes straight from the comics and was also created by the Coraline writer.

A still from Dead Boy Detectives

The Occult comedy series brings some fresh faces, with actors like George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, and Kassius Nelson in central roles, as well as familiar actors like Ruth Connell, who is best known for her work in Supernatural, as well as The White Lotus’ Lukas Gage.

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We are living for Dead Boy Detectives. In Netflix‘s cheeky new dramedy, the supernatural duo created by Neil Gaiman and introduced in The Sandman graphic novels jumps from page to screen, thanks to the utterly lovely chemistry between stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri. And to prove that Dead men do tell tales, we asked the guys to explain what’s up with their best mates from the beyond. “My character’s called Edwin Payne, and in 1916, he died as the result of a demonic summoning ritual gone very, very wrong. And that sent him to Hell for 70 years,” offers relative newcomer Rexstrew. “He managed to escape and shortly after his escape, he went back to his old school, St. Hilorian’s, where he died and came across Charles, who was on the cusp of death. Edwin actually nursed him in his final few hours, and when Charles died,...

"These two boys are cheating death." Netflix has unveiled one final 30-second teaser trailer for Dead Boy Detectives, which begins streaming today on Netflix worldwide. This new supernatural series is based on the beloved comic series from Neil Gaiman, and a new addition to "The Sandman Universe" for Netflix. It looks cool! Do you have a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core memories? You may want to ring the Dead Boy Detectives. Two teen ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele — until a powerful witch messes it up. Edwin & Charles are best friends, ghosts, and the best detectives on the Mortal plane. They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal and her friend Niko, they are able to crack some of the mortal realm's most mystifying paranormal cases.

Neil Gaiman doesn’t create singular worlds. Instead, he produces an entire universe held together by the gravitational force of his imagination.

Dead Boy Detectives, the new series based on Gaiman’s teenage ghost duo Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), exists within the same narrative reality as The Sandman. The undead detectives solve mysteries and fight demons and witches, while trying to evade the attention of Death (Kirby) herself. The series, developed for television by Steve Yockey — who serves as co-showrunner alongside Beth Schwartz — lives on its own, but the influence of The Sandman radiates throughout.

“I grew up reading Sandman and Books of Magic and Children's Crusade and Dead Boy Detectives and all the sort of Vertigo imprint stuff for DC Comics,” Yockey tells Tudum. “I found Dead Boys when I was going through a particularly difficult loss in my life and just found it...

In Season of Mists, the fourth volume of The Sandmancomics series, Neil Gaiman penned a ghost story set in a British boarding school to demonstrate the problems being caused by Lucifer’s plan to get back at Dream. Gaiman liked the characters enough that he brought them back for a Vertigo Comics crossover event, and they wound up receiving their own spin-off comic from Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham.

Now, the Dead Boy Detectives are receiving their own show from Steve Yockey and Beth Schwartz. Set in the same universe as The Sandman, this series follows all the zany thrills and heartwarming moments of Charles (Jayden Revri) and Edwin’s (George Rexstrew) adventures solving supernatural mysteries that no one else can, with the help of clairvoyant Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and new friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura).

“Charles was more or less me as a boy,” executive producer and Sandman author Gaiman tells Tudum.

Plot: Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal and her friend Niko, they are able to crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

Review: Last year, the long-anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s seminal graphic novel saga The Sandman became a hit for Netflix. With a new generation of viewers discovering the morbidly fascinating world of The Endless, Gaiman’s expansive comic book and literary canon is finally being recognized by a wider audience. While we wait for the series’s second season, Netflix has a spin-off set within the same cinematic universe. Dead Boy Detectives features many direct and tangential connections to The Sandman that will keep...

Streaming on: Netflix

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The Dead Boy Detectives are defiant in the face of death — it's their whole shtick — yet it's still a miracle that their show survived long enough to reach this point. Starting out as minor comic-book characters in Neil Gaiman's Sandman, the ghostly duo eventually guest-starred in TV's Doom Patrol, but their proposed spin-off was then shunted from HBO Max to Netflix, and the boys themselves were recast too, replacing Ty Tennant and Heartstopper's Sebastian Croft with newcomers George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri.

Yet, despite all that and a wobbly first episode aside, Dead Boy Detectives is remarkably sure of itself. Once the premise is established, the show deftly balances each supernatural case-of-the-week with ongoing threads that dig deeper into the wider world it shares with Netflix's Sandman, as well as the interior world of each lead character. There are cameos and name-drops...

Dead Boy Detectives was initially developed for television by HBO Max in 2021. After a long and winding road of purgatory, the series eventually is reaching Netflix in early 2023. (Please note that this has nothing to do with Netflix licensing Max properties as of late.) The adaptation of DC Comics has a cult following that can tap into every popular young demographic.

Now, every comic book property will continuously develop in the ever-competitive streaming landscape. This makes it more surprising how ordinary, at times, Dead Boy Detectives can be, considering Netflix’s binge model. Dead Boy Detectives is like a purgatory Hardy Boys procedural, with the boys trying to solve a new case weekly.

However, as the series progresses, you see its overall potential. You hope the streaming giant will allow Dead Boy Detectives to achieve that potential.

George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri in Dead Boy Detectives (2024) | Image via Netflix

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In theory, Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives should be a feast for the misery wraiths, faceless creatures who feed on pain and suffering. The ghostly protagonists, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri), are both teenagers bullied to death at the same British boarding school seven decades apart. They spend their time finding closure for other lost souls, like a pair of high schoolers cut down in their prime or a family slaughtered by an abusive patriarch. And they’re constantly on the run from the agents of Death, who would condemn Edwin to Hell on a technicality.

Yet the duo only ever encounter one such monster over the eight-episode first season, and perhaps that’s because despite its gloomy-sounding premise, Dead Boy Detectives is the furthest thing from dour. Dark, sure; bittersweet, sometimes. But it’s never less than entertaining, thanks to an appealingly quirky lead cast and a cheeky sense of humor.

Dead Boy Detectives might play in the ghostly realm, but the series roars to life whenever Lukas Gage slinks onto the screen as Cat King.

Incredibly powerful and alarmingly sexy — his words not ours — the shape-shifter is an agent of supernatural chaos packaged in both flesh and fur, depending on which form you find him. The former version immediately catches the attention of Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew), one half of the titular crime-solving duo, jump-starting a journey of self-discovery and acceptance.

Gage is certainly no stranger to on-screen seduction. But playing a feline-human hybrid in a post-digital fur technology world is a challenge even he was hesitant to pounce on. “I just knew that this show was going to be totally something we haven’t seen before,” Gage tells Tudum. “I was also like, ‘What the hell am I going to do as a cat? How...

I had a great time talking to George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri for Netflix’s “Dead Boy Detectives.” Both are sweet and charming and even played with me about my backdrop. In the series, George Rexstrew aka Edwin Paine and Jayden Revri aka Charles Rowland are our dead boy detectives who decided not to enter the

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“Dead Boy Detectives” threads a very specific tonal needle. Based on the Neil Gaiman graphic novels, the new Netflix series follows two dead teens — Edwin and Charles, played by George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri — and their flourishing careers as P.I.s who help other ghosts with unfinished business while trying to avoid Hell.

“We created a darkly comedic horror mystery,” co-creator (with Beth Schwartz) Steve Yockey told IndieWire. “We were always trying to make the Hardy Boys on acid, basically. As long as you stay grounded with the emotional stories, then you can go crazy with everything else.”

Over the course of eight episodes, “Dead Boy Detectives” does just that. Part of the series’ thrill is found in its opening credits, which distill the essence of the show’s tone into #friendgoals as two skeletons cavort and frolic while ominous Easter eggs proliferate. Watch the full sequence in the video above...

Welcome to the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Do you have a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core memories? The afterlife’s finest, Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), are at your service. But if you’re a ghost who wants their help to solve your unfinished business, make sure you respect the name. It’s aces.

Based on characters created for DC by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, the eight-episode supernatural series follows these two teenage sleuths as they track down the world’s most elusive ghosts and demons.

Scroll through the Dead Boy Detectives’ résumé below, before the show premieres on April 25:

What’s Dead Boy Detectives about? Meet Edwin and Charles, “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, they are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries.

Netflix has debuted the full official trailer for ‘Dead Boy Detectives’, the series is based on the beloved comic series from Neil Gaiman and a new addition to The Sandman Universe for Netflix.

Meet Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they are able to crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

The series also stars Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Lukas Gage, David Iacono and Ruth Connell.

Developed for television by Steve Yockey, who serves as co-showrunner alongside Beth Schwartz...