Aftermath TV show cancelled after one season on Syfy and Space. Pictured: James Tupper as Joshua Copeland, Louis Ferreira as Bob “Moondog” Black. (Photo by: Eike Schroter / Aftermath ULC / Syfy.)
While doomsday meteors, mass vanishings, demonic possessions, and serpent gods couldn’t stop the Copeland family, no one is immune to the network TV Powers That Be. The Aftermath TV show on Syfy has been cancelled after its first and only season.
Star James Tupper broke the news that there would be no Aftermath season two, on Twitter. Halfire Entertainment produced the post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama in association with Syfy and Canada’s Space channel. Anne Heche, Julia Sarah Stone, Taylor Hickson, and Levi Meaden also starred.
James Tupper Announces Space and Syfy Have Cancelled Aftermath After One Season
So sad to report #Aftermath will not be getting a second season. #sobummed
— James Tupper (@MrJamesTupper) January 12, 2017
Aftermath Season One Ratings | Syfy
In the US, Aftermath premiered on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 year old demographic and 634,000 viewers. While the series never really built on that audience, it did manage to maintain it.
Overall, the first season of Aftermath averaged a 0.16 in the demo and drew an average total audience of 594,000 viewers.
Those numbers currently put Aftermath right in the middle of Syfy’s slate. Out of the 15 Syfy TV shows we have been tracking in to 2016-17 television season, Aftermath ranks seventh, when we sort by either demo ratings or average total audience size.
Although it is a bit of a surprise to see a cable channel cancel a middle-of-the-pack TV series, remember, Aftermath is a Syfy-Space co-production. In other words, the decision was not only Syfy’s to make.
That said, in the recent past, Syfy has cancelled shows that earned better ratings in both measures. When the cable channel cancelled Defiance after three seasons, it was averaging a 0.25 and 1.125 million, respectively. Similarly, Dominion, which was cancelled after two seasons on Syfy, averaged a 0.25 in the demo and 869,000 total viewers.
Aftermath TV show cancelled; no season two on Syfy and Space. Pictured: Louis Ferreira as Bob “Moondog” Black, James Tupper as Joshua Copeland, Julia Sarah Stone as Dana Copeland. (Photo by: Eike Schroter / Aftermath ULC / Syfy.)
Finally, what do you think? Did you watch the first season of the Aftermath TV show? Do you think Syfy and Space should have cancelled or renewed it for a second season? Let us know, below.
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I liked it. I wish it had been renewed. Give it a chance
Not likely to watch any more Syfy programming if Aftermath can’t make it what’s the point?
I just found this show hoping for a season two and there isn’t one!!!
You don’t let us know about the syfi shows much. Bummed.
Loved it! Very disappointed to see it go…
I stared watching it thought it was really good
Really liked the show. Been waiting for it to come back on.
I hate that Aftermath was cancelled. I was hoping to find out which direction the show was heading almost with a end of the world/revelation type theme.
Gutted!!!
Very mad that there is not going to be a season 2. Didn’t even know it was on tell the 2 weeks after it started. If more people would have knew about it I think they would have watched….
WHAT!!!!! very sad Aftermath is cancelled 🙁 My brother and I loved this show so much!! Great acting and awesome story!!! please bring it back syfy right away!! Aftermath was so awesome, the only show other than Channel Zero my brother and I watch on syfy. very, no, highly disappointed! r.i.p Aftermath you will be missed!!
I am so disappointed that this show has been cancelled. I found it to be intelligent and entertaining. I will not watch syfy any time soon if you will not give a great show like Aftermath a chance!
Just saw the season one finale. Couldn’t watch it when it aired and had to record it. If they had brought the story to a conclusion it might have been okay to end after the first season but they didn’t. It was ended on a cliffhanger and the story was left open ended with tons of unanswered questions. It was a total set up for another season. SyFy/Space did their viewers a big injustice in canceling this show. Did they not learn anything from FOX? Its Firefly all over again!
It was good show with a awesome premiss.
It was a bad show, dumb to the extreme. I started watching it from the beginning but after awhile it was just too silly and became totally unwatchable. It was alike a Saturday afternoon show with bad language and sexual situations. A shame, because the cast was good.