3 shows cancelled by Amazon Prime Video that deserve another season

Amazon has a ton of great shows on Prime Video, but even fan favourites aren’t immune from the chop

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There’s no doubt thatAmazon PrimeVideo and its rivalstreaming serviceshave expanded our entertainment choices greatly. Unlike the early 80s, where we had just four TV channels in the UK, we now have a nearless endless supply of shows and films to watch.

Here are three such examples that Prime Video cut short that it shouldn’t have.

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Truth Seekers

Starring Frost as the leader of his group of “Truth Seekers”, an online blogging group set up to investigate the paranormal, the show delved into the world of the occult, murder and conspiracy with the kind of modern quick cut filmmaking we saw in his and Pegg’sCornetto Trilogy, plus the sitcomSpacedbeforehand. It was sharp, funny, spooky and, despite an extremely modest budget, looked great.

So why was it so quickly cancelled after just one season?

In basic terms, despite the cast, quality and premise, nobody actually watched it.

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Audience figures were decent enough but a lot smaller than Prime expected, so that was that. No second season.

Truth Seekersdid seem to have a lot more to offer moving forward but sadly business almost always triumphs over art.

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Some shows survive to 20 seasons, some get cancelled after just one, and then there are shows likeThe Expansethat get a second chance.

It made more sense though, second time around.

When the end did come, put down to expense and rising costs, many felt it was the right time and what needed to be said had been. In many ways the cancellation saved the show from the danger of dragging things out too long simply to make money at the cost of good storytelling

It was sad to see it end, but it was done in the right way. Now we just need to wait 30 years for the next part of the story to kick in, like in the books!

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American Gods

Imagine having the rights to one of the best pieces of 21st century literature, a book with almost unlimited lore and opportunities for development, and then seemingly cancel it randomly, without warning after the biggest cliffhanger of the entire run.

Well that is what production studio Starz did with Neil Gaiman’sAmerican Gods. And so Prime Video (who hosted it in the UK) had the run cut short.

The show looked amazing with big effects and pure cinematics, The cast was universally right for the job and the writing was sharp and very much in keeping with the source material. It builds well over three seasons, culminating with a finale that was equally shocking as it was memorable. We all held our breath and waited for the release date for fourth…. and waited… and waited.

Money, or the lack of it, saw the end ofAmerican Gods. It seems that super high production values and an all star cast cost a lot and Starz decided that it didn’t want to keep paying for a show that wasn’t bringing in the expected numbers.

There are still rumours of a proposed movie to finish it all off, but as per 2024 nothing has been set in stone. It seems we are destined to never know what came next.

Unless you read the books, of course.

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