IFC has cancelled sketch comedy series The Birthday Boys after two seasons. There will be no Season 3.
IFC said via statement:
“IFC was proud to be the home of The Birthday Boys and their unique and inventive comedy for two seasons. We thank these talented creators and wish them nothing but the best. We will miss the laughs, the farce and the pixilated male nudity.”
In a Facebook post, The Birthday Boys said they were “surprised and saddened” by the cancellation:
We are surprised and saddened to hear that IFC had already chosen to cancel#TheBirthdayBoys series before our resignation as hosts. But we are relieved we conveniently announced our resignation as hosts minutes before IFC publicly announced their decision. We are smart.
Huge thanks to #TheBirthdayBoys fans for watching and huge thanks to IFC for 2 wonderful seasons! We’ll keep at it. Season 2 is slated to hit Netflix this year and the DVD will be packed with special features!
They also uploaded the following Youtube announcement:
RIP.
K.K. says
This is insane, who ever is making these decisions should be FIRED, These guy’s are funny as hell, are you kidding me?
Jeff says
I agree, and now we get barraged by the 70,s show and Star trek. are you kidding me??? Some one who is charge of programming needs to get fired. Why in the hell would ifc give us the 70s show one after another and get rid of the birthday boys and star strek. Talk about giving the public stuff that was borderline funny when it came out.Star Trek??? Who’s desion was that??? IFC used to be the best network with the ability to do and say what they liked and now it just seems like someone just just pulled progarming out of a hat. come on IFC get your act together and listen to your viewing public and start by get rid of the 70’s show and star trek and bring back the birth boys and some more sketch comedy and throw some movies back into the loop like enemy at the gates and american grafitti and some others that people would know and enjoy but for god sakes bring back the birthday boys to start. Thank you soo much and by the way some advertizing for yor channel would help tremendously. Brighthouse cable has you so far up that it would be hard to find. Thank you in advance Jeff