NBC’s “Best Time Ever” with Neil Patrick Harris will not be returning for a second season

Neil Patrick Harris enjoyed a 10 season run on TV’s How I Met Your Mother.

But it turns out his HIMYM follow-up series, NBC’s Best Time Ever, only lasted eight episodes.

It’s a pity because I really enjoyed the show and thought it would only get better in a season 2. There was nothing else on television quite like it.

Anyway, the network has confirmed that it has canceled the unique live show with taped segments which featured stunts, pranks, competitions and a different celebrity announcer each week with Harris as the energetic host.

The show was based on the UK series Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

‘We are extremely proud of the work Neil and the producers did on Best Time Ever,’  NBC’s President of Late-Night and Alternative Programming Paul Telegdy tells <a href=”http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/best-time-ever-canceled-nbc-neil-patrick-harris-1201662194/” target=”_blank”>Variety</a>.

‘People rewarded us for taking the risk of trying something different. It was an incredibly complicated and sophisticated form of television to put on a live show on a weekly basis. We’re proud of Neil for giving it his all and we have steely resolve to work together on something new.’

The network plans to work on other projects with Harris who since HIMYM ended in 2014 has starred on Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and won a Tony Award for it, appeared in the films Gone Girl and A Million Ways to Die in the West, published his autobiography and hosted the 2015 Academy Awards.