David Beckham’s Disney Plus series axed after just one season
FOOTBALL icon David Beckham’s Disney+ series Save Our Squad has been axed after just one season.
The show, which aired in 2022, followed Beckham as he returned to the East London football pitches where he played as a child.
There he mentored a young grassroots side, struggling to survive in the league.
But the four-part show did not pull in a big enough crowd and Disney has decided to not recommission it for a second series.
“The bosses at Disney were thrilled to sign David for Save Our Squad. They felt it was a real coup,” a source told the Mirror.
“While the documentary was only commissioned for one series, they hoped to continue it, and film more as new kids came through the squad.”
It was said that they wanted to replicate the same success of Freddie Flintoff’s hit BBC show Field of Dreams.
“But unfortunately, they didn’t get the ratings so they decided to stop after the one series,” they added.
The Sun have contacted Disney + for comment.
A second series of Freddie’s BBC One cricket show has been commissioned.
Former international cricketer Freddie returned to his hometown of Preston with the aim of creating a brand-new cricket team with a group of promising teens.
He returned to work last month for the first time since his horrific Top Gear crash, where he was airlifted to hospital and left with severe facial injuries and broken ribs.
Freddie was driving an open-topped three-wheeled car without a helmet when it flipped at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey in December 2022.
But it’s not all bad news for sports hero David, who raked in a huge £72m in a year – after having a huge hit with his Netflix documentary.
David was a co-producer of Save our Squad and Fever Pitch for BBC Two, and his production company developed and produced the ‘Beckham’ documentary series and the Ronnie O’Sullivan biopic, ‘The Edge of Everything’, for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video respectively.
A source said: “It’s been a golden year for Goldenballs. The Netflix documentary deal was worth over £20 million alone and its huge success has been vindication.
“David continues to be flooded with commercial and partnership offers and has never been more in demand – despite retiring 10 years ago.”