*BET has abandoned plans to air a second season of “The Breaks,” after announcing in April that the hip hop drama would move to the network from VH1.
BET announced plans for the move back in April, but that will no longer happen and the series has been canceled after its lone season on VH1, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The Breaks” started as a back-door pilot on VH1. It was based on Dan Charnas‘ best-selling book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. Charnas documented the rise of the genre as a writer for The Source, the first rap magazine, and is a former record executive. His book spans 40 years of stories and was culled from more than 300 interviews with execs, entrepreneurs, hustlers and handlers.
The Breaks wrapped its eight-episode run in February, averaging about a million viewers per episode. Afton Williamson, Tristan Wilds, Melonie Diaz, Evan Handler and Gloria Reuben starred.
In April, BET announced that it would house “The Breaks” for a second season and cheerleading drama “Hit the Floor” for a fourth season, with the latter coming more than a year after its third season wrapped on VH1.
But with BET’s recent pickups, the network no longer had a need for “The Breaks,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. BET recently went straight to series with “In Contempt,” a procedural starring Erica Ash; “The Quad,” “The Comedy Get Down” and “Hit the Floor.”
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