STX Shops ‘FBoy Island’ After HBO Max’s Reality Series Cancellation

The producers of reality series FBoy Island I hope to bring in a new generation of bad guys and nice guys after HBO Max’s cancellation.

Deadline understands that STXalternative, the company behind the series, which has been credited as one of the unscripted streamer’s biggest hits, has been in talks with other networks and platforms about the show.

The show’s cancellation isn’t much of a surprise; Deadline revealed that HBO Max pulled out of unscripted originals over the summer as part of a major cost-cutting drive that led to the departure of the reality team led by Jen O’Connell.

At the time, the streamer noted that while it wasn’t ordering new unscripted originals, it would consider renewing existing shows. But FBoy Island will never fly with the David Zaslav-run company given the price point that equates to the kind of shows Discovery is used to.

When it launched in July 2021, HBO Max said it was the biggest premiere of any Max Original reality series since the streamer launched and was one of the biggest deals for the non-streaming company.

It was renewed for a second season, which began in July 2022.

Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the show was set in the Cayman Islands and followed three women who were accompanied by 24 men – 12 self-proclaimed “Nice Guys” looking for love and 12 self-proclaimed “FBoys” competing for cold, hard cash there .

The women navigate the dating pool together in hopes of finding a lasting love affair. In the finale, it all comes out: who is a nice guy, who is an FBoy and who the women finally vote for. Fboy Island is a social experiment that asks the age-old question: can FBoys really reform, or do nice guys always finish last?

It was produced by Elan Gale, Sam Dean, Jason Goldberg, Ben Bitonti and Glaser. There was a change only with the news of the cancellation.