Several shows are still waiting to see if they’ll return to the Peacock network.

Zachary Quinto drama Brilliant Minds canceled after 2 seasons at NBC, Stumble done after 1

Several shows are still waiting to see if they'll return to the Peacock network.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

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on May 1, 2026 9:22 p.m. ET

Zachary Quinto on 'Brilliant Minds'. Credit:

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- NBC has canceled the shows *Brilliant Minds* and *Stumble*, ** has learned.

- Zachary Quinto starred in the medical drama, inspired by the life of late neurologist Oliver Sacks, for two seasons.

- *Stumble* was a comedy, a mockumentary about junior college cheerleading, that starred Jenn Lyon and featured Kristin Chenoweth in a recurring role.

Bad news for fans of NBC shows *Brilliant Minds* and *Stumble*.

Both series have been canceled, * *has learned.

*Brilliant Minds*, which stars Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf, a neurologist struggling with his mental health and face blindness, and loosely based on the work of late neurologist Oliver Sacks, debuted in 2024.

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The second season premiered in September before the network removed it from its schedule after the Olympics. Its remaining episodes will air during the summer, beginning May 27.

The medical drama also stars Tamberla Perry and Ashleigh LaThrop.

Freshman comedy *Stumble*, a mockumentary about the world of junior college cheerleading, finished its first and only season in March.

Taran Killam on 'Stumble'.

Matt Miller/NBC

Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Anissa Borrego, Jarrett Austin Brown, and Arianna Davis starred. Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth had a recurring role.

The series were among the network's least watched of the season, according to *The Hollywood Reporter*, which noted that *Brilliant Minds* averaged little more than 3 million viewers, while *Stumble* pulled in 2.24 million.

The outlet noted that three series — *The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins*, *Law & Order*, and *The Hunting Party* — are waiting to learn their fate.

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As for *Brilliant Minds*, Quinto spoke about his character with EW in September 2024.

"Wolf has not got any ulterior darkness to him," the actor said. "He is iconoclastic, he's rebellious, he sometimes acts before he thinks — but at his core, he is a good person. It's nice to be playing a character who maybe colors outside the lines a little bit, but who is always doing it in service of people and improving their lives."

Quinto, who came out as gay in 2011, said he appreciated that his character's sexuality wasn't the focus of the story.

"It's a real honor for me to be playing an openly gay character on a primetime network television series where the character's identity is a comfortable aspect of who the character is," Quinto noted. "It also is the source of a lot of personal conflict for the character. His relationship to his sexuality, to intimacy, and to his family is complicated. All things that are very relatable and understandable from a human experience."

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