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'The Expanse' at 10: The Outer Space Drama That Should Have Been as Big as ‘Game of Thrones’ (www.space.com)
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

The show ran into issues with distribution rights. SyFy didn’t want to keep funding it because the views were from next day streaming rather than live broadcast. SyFy made less (or nothing?) from the streams.

Amazon bought the rights and funded the final season, but didn’t continue the because the viewership wasn’t huge and they were funding Rings of Power instead.

at least that’s my vague recollection from 8 years agot

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Even the author was saying it's a pause at the time and not canceled outright.

    It's a decades long jump to the next book, so they didn't want to do it right away. Amazon might have canceled it in the normal sense, but that wasn't the whole story.

    Granted that doesn't mean Amazon or Alcon or whoever else is going to take it up, no one commits to doing another season 5 or 10 or more years from now, but the intention is to continue it.

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