Starz has decided to cancel their Camelot TV series after one season. While the ratings weren’t bad for the Arthurian show, the numbers aren’t necessarily the whole reason why there won’t be a second season.
Camelot, as you might have guessed, is based on the legend of King Arthur. The series stars Jamie Campbell Bower as a young King Arthur, with Joseph Fiennes as Merlin, Eva Green as Morgan, and Tamsin Egerton as Guinevere.
The premiere attracted 1.1 million viewers with a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic. That marked the cable channel’s most-watched and highest-rated original series premiere to date. Unfortunately, the second installment dropped 24% in total viewership and subsequent episodes dropped even further. Still, by the end of the season, the ratings were on an upswing. The finale nearly matching the viewership of the premiere.
While Camelot may have ordinarily ended up getting a renewal from Starz, the ratings weren’t the only factor in play.
A statement from a Starz representative notes, “Due to significant production challenges, Starz has decided not to exercise the option for subsequent seasons of Camelot with our production partners GK-tv, Octagon Films and Take 5 Productions.” Deadline reports that some of those “challenges” included scheduling conflicts with some of the actors.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that Camelot has been cancelled? Would you have liked to have seen a second season?
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Wow, what a great show!! I was really looking forward to a second season. All of the actors were great, especially Merlin and Morgan. I hope Starz will reconsider.
Im Entirely pissed camelot was the better off medieval show to be aired. Merlin is ok but doesn’t meet the excitement camelot brought and for Game of thrones i still prefer watching camelot even though games is good but camelot brought the edge of your seat thrills and the passion from which the characters portrayed was fantastic. Starz needs to seriously reconsider and deal with the budgeting i guarantee if they make a second season they would see ratings raise and im sure they could make it more glorious than the first. Seriously starz Bring CAMELOT BACK!
I can’t believe another fantastic show bites the dust!!!! Camelot was by far my favorite show on TV!! The casting, writing, location, costuming, all perfect! Truly a pleasure to watch and something I looked forward to watching and often viewing an episode many times. Truly a mistake to let this one go!! This is such a creative show can’t the producers exercise a little creativity and flexibility with shooting schedules etc. to work around conflicts and make it work? One season is never enough time as many are just finding out about a great show. Frankly, I see no reason… Read more »
this sucks!the show kept you on the edge of your seat.the actors should be glad they have work and pull their EGOS out of their ASSES!
What a bummer, I looked forward to the return of this show…honestly I think people who make this decisions are not in touch….it was exciting, full of impact and very sexy…what is wrong with a show that keeps you on the edge as this show did…ugh ugh ugh. Yeah I am very disappointed..bring it back..or at least somebody else pick it up…ugh ugh ugh…
This is a very good show. I am quite disappointed to hear it has been cancelled.
I thought the first few episodes were just ok, but worth to watch. But once it got going it was good. Then the last 4 episodes or so were very, very good. If Lancelot would of shown up in Season 2, that would of really helped the story line. This has great potential. I thought this could of easily of been a 4-7 year series. I should know, I watch a lot of TV. I take 5-6 hours to do my morning routine so I can start the day, while huge majority of the time I watch my recorded TV… Read more »
I am certainly pissed that the second season is not coming back…….I was checking online tonight of when the next season was premiering but now I have found out it is cancelled:( To bad……it is not like those reality crap tv shows but a nice medieval show with a good story line……F**k starz as I was hooked on this show which does not happen often
Sorry to see this show canceled!! I watched faithfully every week and was surprised at the season ending and could not wait to see Season 2!! Was debating whether to cancel until season 2 came on. Now I know I can CANCEL my Starz subscription. Was only holding on to it so I could watch next season of Camelot. Thank you Starz for allowing me to cancel my subscription, as there is really never anything good on But Camelot!!!!! I am tired of all the re-run movies!!!
I can’t remember the last time I got so hooked on a series. All the casting was pitch-perfect, they had a great balance between drama and action, an interesting take on one of the best stories ever told, and some pretty fantastic actors in their corner. I just don’t get how a show like this can get cancelled. I really believed it was just building up steam too. With the arrival of Lancelot in season 2 this show could’ve hit the stratosphere. Sigh. I hate STARZ right now. This was the one show they had going for them. Now, they’re… Read more »
Yes I loved the show but still life got in the way and I missed a few episodes although I did catch up on catch up TV. Very disappointing it was a very good cast and was v realistic and grown up which I liked, Maybe TV companies should realise that sometimes its about good TV and not just the ratings go figure >
Well I won’t be watching any Starz shows. What’s the point, Starz could just leave their viewers hanging again. If we are being loyal to the show, surely they should show us veiwers some loyalty in return?
starz sucks. BBC series merlin
I also had just finished watching Camelot’s first season and I was really enjoying it. I looked up information on the internet to see when the next season was going to start and to my great disappointment and confusion I learned that they were not going to have another season. I do not understand why they couldn’t have at least finished this series enough to satisfy the viewers who were enjoying it. Nothing is worse than getting interested in a show and then finding out the show is cancelled , without a satisfactory ending. Starz made a very annoying decision… Read more »
Unfortunately I did not even hear about this until I saw it on Netflix, very disappointed there is no season 2. This was a great show, and a horrible move not to continue forward. I was going to include Starz in my lineup, now I guess there is no reason.