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.
Nooo, pls could u tell us why I’m almost in tears … the show has everything u want to see in a film and it’s so sad to know I won’t be seeing another xx
Nooo, pls could u tell us why as I’m almost in tears to know that the show is no longer … AnaiyaFoster age 11
Bring it back. This show leaves you wanting more. There are not many shows that keeps glued to your chair. Great cast, story line is never ending. Why end a show that leaves you wanting more?
Bring back Aftermath. It was left with a crappy ending to end that way is cruel to the fans.
I really liked aftermath. There was everything you could want in a good tv show (a good makes sense plot, lots of action, good romance, genuine acting, drama, scenes that make you jump and so on) I mean i wasnt set up for 10 seasons worth but there was no reason it couldn’t have been a 5 season hit.
I really liked the show. It is one of the few that I looked forward to watching every week. So sad it was cancelled. Syfy seems to cancel really good shows. It makes me hesitant to bother watching anything from the channel for fear of getting attached to another soon-to-be cancelled show.
Yes, bring it back! Loved it!
VERY saddened that there will not. E a Season 2!!!!!
very sad and angry to know the desicion of cancelling aftermatch. I was waiting for season two, very good show
Seriously? Should Aftermath have been cancelled after a single season? Hmmm, let me think. . . it had innovative special effects (the demon possessions), unusual events (the truly unforgettable human head as a squeegee), top notch acting from a talented cast, unrelenting horror interspersed with puppy love. . . Yeah, who needs it.
I think this show is a victim of the inability to count the viewers that DVR and have on demand. This show was slow to get viewers and so many posting here came to it late. SyFy has made a mistake!
it was good. kids were good. some of there scenes of anger sadness and madness made you feel same.
Yes on demand it was a fantastic series couldn’t wait to watch all 14 episodes
Sad to see it go! I liked the family sticking together aspect through strange and stranger! Good family interaction. FYI, senior citizens liked the show and was talking it up – shared Aftermath adventures with grandchildren. Many discussion about what would you do if this happened to you … …. consider bringing it back, you may be surprised.
It is a bit annoying, when a show gets “cancelled” without a chance to give us vewers, time to absorb a rea ENDING!!! Stop doing that, please!! Why should us viewers EVER watch ANYTHING the networks “give/throw at us”; if we won’t get the CHANCE to say a proper ” farewell”, to the characters we’ve invested time and love into?!?!? Give us a ” proper sendoff”!!…perhaps a “season 2 in mini series format”…?!? Just so we’ve get a chance to see the ” fruit of our time invested”! At least in Defiance, you gave us an “ending of sorts”. Please…do… Read more »
Kiss my ass scyfy!!!!!
I like the show. The actors are very good. The script is OK. Special effects were horrible. If the show had better writers and had a bigger budget it could’ve been great.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first season. It was a big mistake to cancel b/c the ratings would have increased at the beginning of the second season.