According to a new report by The Wrestling Observer, Lucha Underground will not be airing new episodes on 12/24 and 12/31. The show will be pre-empted on 12/24, and on 12/31 El Rey Network will be airing all episodes of the show starting at 4pm up the most current episode.
As for the future of Lucha Underground, ratings for the show are not moving as the network had hoped, which could be a big problem given how expensive the show is to produce. Each taping is said to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but national ads which air while Underground is on are only selling for $150-$300 for a 30 second spot (commercial).
Furthermore, El Rey recently canceled “El Matador”, which was supposed to have a commitment for a second season, because the show was not catching on as hoped. This could be a bad sign for Lucha Underground, as it shows El Rey is not as committed to first-run programming as producers might think. The hope with Lucha Underground, which has had positive word of mouth along with ads running during Raw, was that the show would help put El Rey Network on the map.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
