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Peacock cancels Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson’s Dead Day adaptation

Author

John Parsons

Published Jan 04, 2026

Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson’s arranged TV transformation of Ryan Parrott and Evgeniy Bornyakov’s shock comic book series Dead Day has been dropped by Peacock.

Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson are most popular for co-making superhit shows like The Vampire Journals and its side projects The Firsts and Heritages. Last January, NBCUniversal-possessed decoration Peacock, gave the task a directly to-series request yet chose to reassess it.

General TV is allegedly intending to transport the comic book show to different outlets, with this being the initial occasion when Plec and Williamson’s new series has been displayed to other expected purchasers.

Dead Day creator Ryan Parrott communicates his perspectives on the news on Twitter
A fairly disheartened Ryan Parrott took to Twitter to communicate his mistake with the cancelation of the transformation. Assortment was quick to break the news.

Miserable to report that my comic book “Dead Day” won’t be coming to Peacock in spite of being gotten directly to series.

In this industry, you can never count your chickens until they’ve brought forth, been named and obviously had chickens of their own.

Lately, the peculiarity of dropping shows regardless of their recharging has been seen frequently. The most scandalous models have been coming from Warner Brothers.- Revelation, because of Chief David Zaslav’s expense cutting methodologies, and the general course adjustment for the organization’s streaming content.

Peacock may be adopting a comparable strategy under the initiative of Director Susan Rovner.

This doesn’t come as a shock as the organization has recently decided to adhere to its best paths as a more reasonable business approach.

Last year, misfortunes ascribed to the web-based feature added up to $2.5 billion, and the organization currently anticipates that misfortunes should add up to $3 billion for Peacock in 2023. This change is obligatory for the real time feature to guarantee an effective future.

Peacock’s new system includes making gorge capable comedies, as well as more occasion series-type dramatizations, like The Best Man: The Last Sections, which turned into the main Peacock show to enter the Nielsen top 10 streaming diagrams.

The as of late sent off Stoic Expression featuring Natasha Lyonne and made by Rian Johnson has proactively been met with huge basic recognition.

Peacock dropped the Plec-created series Vampire Foundation recently yet is still in contact with her. She is presently fostering the show series Freeman and furthermore a transformation of the Youthful Grown-up original Using up all available time named, Clifton, among different activities under her general arrangement with All inclusive TV.


What’s going on with the comic Dead Day?

Dead Day follows various characters as they explore the yearly ‘dead day,’ when for one night the dead returned as zombies to finish incomplete business, be that to commend a night back on the planet or torment the living.

The authority summary of the principal comic volume peruses:

“On the off chance that the dead could return for only one evening, could we need them to? Meet the Haskins, an apparently typical rural family, as they get ready for the yearly grim occasion known as “Dead Day” – when the departed miraculously come back to life from dusk to dawn. A return to rejoin with loved ones, others for one final evening of revelry, still others with only one thing on their disintegrating minds: retribution.”
Different works by Ryan Parrott incorporate Go Power Officers, Maverick Sun, Volition and so on.