'The Brink' Season 2 Axed: Tim Robbins, Aasif Mandvi, Jack Black Comedy Cancelled!

From the director of the Austin Powers movies, HBO will not continue with its political satire, The Brink. Though Season 2 of The Brink was renewed, the drama featuring Walter Larson (Tim Robbins) and Rafiq Massoud (Aasif Mandvi), and Alex Talbot (Jack Black) has been cancelled.

As we previously mentioned, the cable network granted a second-season order to the freshman comedy. The renewal happened just comes a day before the options on the cast were supposedly set to expire. The pickup of the HBo dramedy also came two weeks after the death of the series' executive producer Jerry Weintraub (Ocean's Eleven franchise) at age 77.

In our MStars News interview, Eric Ladin, who played Glenn "Jammer" Taylor, described the humor of the show, "You've got to approach the material at the root of it, which is the same way you would approach any material to make sure it's coming from a realistic, grounded, place. And then, as you start to do that, you start to be able to find the humor in it. But humor comes in stakes, so the higher the stakes, the funnier it's probably going to be. And we've got just about the highest stakes that you possibly can being that it's the end of the world, or possibly WWIII coming. So with that, we then try to find the humor that comes from within that. And I think that we've been able to do a pretty good job of that."

According to Variety, the cable channel has apparently changed its mind about has changed its mind about moving forward with a sophomore season. in the ratings, The Brink averaged 1.1 million viewers, as opposed to Ballers, which starred Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, which had 8.8 million.

In their statement, the cable channel states, "After evaluating our schedule and our programming needs, we unfortunately decided we cannot give 'The Brink' the attention it deserves for a second season. We are proud of the first season and wish everyone involved in this show the very best."

Check out our 5 Thoughts on the first season of The Brink here:

The Brink  will not continue on HBO for Season 2.

Readers, would you have liked to have seen Season 2 of The Brink?