'Copenhagen Test' Canceled After One Season at Peacock
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Peacock has canceled "The Copenhagen Test" after just one season,
Variety has learned exclusively.

The espionage thriller series, which was led by Simu Liu, dropped
all eight episodes of its one and only season on Dec. 27, 2025.

"The Copenhangen Test" was received mostly positively by critics,
with the show holding a 71% critical approval rating on Rotten
Tomatoes. However, it failed to find a wide audience. According to
Nielsen data, the show racked up 373 million minutes viewed for
the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4, enough to earn it the number 10 spot
on the Nielsen top 10 streaming originals chart. It failed to
reach the top 10 in any of the subsequent weeks.

The logline for the show states that it followed "first-generation
Chinese-American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) who
realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access
to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency
and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to
flush out who's responsible and prove where his allegiance lies."

Along with Liu, the series starred Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel,
Brian D'Arcy James, Mark O'Brien, and Kathleen Chalfant.

Thomas Brandon created the series and served as writer, executive
producer, and co-showrunner. Jennifer Yale was also a writer,
executive producer, and co-showrunner. Liu executive produced in
addition to starring. James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett
executive produced via Atomic Monster along with Mark Winemaker and
Jet Wilkinson. Wilkinson directed the series' first two episodes.
UCP was the studio.



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