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.
Well thank you for leaving me hanging! I thought it was an entertaining show. Not the greatest but it was good and I enjoyed all the episode. Well back to the walking dead I guess.
I wish they would at least have 3-5 episodes to wrap up story line. It shows lack of respect to those viewers who invested their time and dedication to the show.
How could you cancel Aftermath? Great characters and action. Please bring it back and answer our questions!
A complete miscarriage of justice that this show wasn’t given a second chance. It had all the makings to have gone in the dmfirextion of The Walking Dead! Too sad! It seems ownership needs to see top level numbers right off the bat.
No bring it back
This show was nonsense but it was really exciting nonsense and Ann Heche was kickass awesome in it! They should not have cancelled it
This show was crap but it was really exciting crap and Ann Heche was kickass awesome in it! They should not have cancelled it
GUTTED that’s all I have to say
It was very well written… I don’t watch any of the zombie movies.. because they are so far-fetched but this is something that could happen… and this actually held my interest and I enjoyed it very much please bring back more
The main problem with this show is it had too many ideas and threw them all at the wall at once. Almost every episode was a new creature or concept vaguely tied into end times mythology, and nothing is ever explained or tied together. Very soon, the show settled into a pattern: (1) find a new group who is surviving in their own way, and (2) after a brief standoff, be accepted into the group, (3) only to refuse an offer to remain with them, at minimum, perhaps even defy or destroy this new group’s survival plan. Then (4) leave… Read more »
I. Think it’s stupid to get us excited about the aftermath and then you aint going to put second season on come on stop putting stuff on here if your not going to play more we loved it and expect more bring back second session
I was looking forward to seeing season 2 of Aftermath, great plot and acting…too bad it’s not going to continued. It’s rare to see an apocalyptical and believable series captured. Its a major loss, couldve been another X-files.
Was one of are favorite series to watch was looking forward to seeing it again.
Aftermath was a great tv show. Cancelling a series before wrapping up the end of the story is infuriating & disappointing. The audience deserves some kind of ending! The last show left us with too many questions unanswered!
I am seriously disappointed after reading this article. I don’t understand how it got such a bad rating. This was a really good show I have been waiting for it to come out all year. I would have never thought this show would be canceled after 2 season. Hopefully Netflix or Hulu will pick it up because I’m sure this show would catch alot of viewers. I really thought this would be the next big hit. Such a disappointment that it got canceled.