CBS has announced that The Activist will now air as a documentary special instead of a competition series.
The announcement comes after the series, which is hosted by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Usher, and Julianne Hough, faced heavy criticism over the past week.
The statement read: “Global activism centres on collaboration and cooperation, not competition.
In a separate statement to The Independent, Global Citizen apologised to “the activists, hosts, and the larger activist community” for getting it “wrong”.