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.
