Prime Video Night Sky, a science fiction drama starring JK Simmons and Sissy Spacek, has been canceled after only one season.
Limit (Opens in a new tab) Reports indicate that the show, which dropped all eight episodes of its first season on May 20, will not be getting a second season. The report states that the series’ large production costs and failure to get a large enough audience has prompted Prime Video executives to call time on the project.
Night Sky told the story of Spacek’s Franklin, Irene and Simmons, a couple who discovered many years earlier that there was a buried room in their backyard, one that inexplicably leads to an alien and deserted planet. They have carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when Chae Hanson Judd, a charismatic young man, makes his way into their lives, it is very difficult to keep the secret.
The show’s cancellation, shortly after its premiere, might come as a bit surprising, especially since initial feedback on Night Sky has been so positive.
Kyah McKiernan, Julieta Zilberberg, Rocio Hernandez and Adam Bartley starred alongside Simmons, Spacek and Hanson, with Daniel C. Connolly, whose credits include Into the Badlands and Colony, as the show’s director.
The show’s cancellation, shortly after its premiere, might come as a bit surprising, especially since initial feedback on Night Sky has been so positive.
Do critics like Night Sky?
so far. We’re not talking about anything amazing, But it has a 73% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (Opens in a new tab)And a quick scan of the page shows way more bright red tomatoes than green circles.
Critics were particularly full of praise for Simmons and Spacek, who believed they elevated the show above ordinary science fiction, even if most thought, at eight episodes, that the show was too long.
The audience liked it too, giving it a rating of 81%. Again, this isn’t off the scale, but it’s still the kind of good feedback that usually sets things up for a second round.
Oddly enough, though, Night Sky has already earned its place in the record books and made history.
History made? How is that?
Using Amazon’s vast resources and, most likely, impresario Jeff Bezos’ obsession with all things intergalactic, Prime Video has teamed up with Amazon Web Services, SES, and Intelsat to take the first episode of the show into outer space.
This represented the furthest distance from planet Earth ever distributed to a television series, and as a result, made Prime Video the first broadcasting device to distribute its content directly into space.
For fans of the show, it’s good to remember, but it turns out that being shown in space doesn’t guarantee a second season in today’s grueling TV landscape.
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