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Disney has killed Goosebumps, but there's a good chance Sony may resurrect it

The series based on R.L. Stine's landmark YA horror novels is deceased at Disney+, but producer Sony is looking for another network to give it the Frankenstein treatment

News by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Published on Fri Aug 08 2025

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Nothing stays dead in horror. We certainly hope that maxim holds true for the recent Goosebumps TV series, which Variety reports has been cancelled after two seasons on Disney+. Based on the milestone YA horror series by R.L. Stine, the series premiered in 2023 and snagged such headliners as Justin Long and David Schwimmer for major roles. With successes like that, you may be saddened by the idea of the show's run being over.

But the thing is, well, it might not be.

Also reported by Variety is the fact that Goosebumps's producer, Sony Pictures Television, will be shopping the series around for another streaming home, and the resume it'll be bringing to this job search is nothing less than phenomenal. Along with bearing the name of perhaps the most successful YA horror franchise in the history of the genre, the series boasts a reported 75 million hours viewed in the US. For a show with only twenty episodes in total, that's pretty incredible

Unconfirmed as of this writing is whether Sony will be keeping on the series showrunner, Krapopolis and Ninjago vet Hilary Winston, and whether or not a newly-homed Goosebumps would stick to the same format - that is, an anthology series that takes pieces if plot from Stine's original Goosebumps books. We have to imagine that at least a few things will be different for the show once it (inevitably, right?) finds a new streaming loaction.

After all, though nothing stays dead in horror, nothing comes back quite the same, either.

Goosebumps seasons 1 and 2 are streaming now on Disney+.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.