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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I’m looking forward to season 2 since I miss the original showing in 2011.
Its a shame.
Where I can get the all the season’s?
I loved it and would love to see a second season. Awesome cliffhanger. Please bring it back.
The suspense of the show was breathless. I loved every episod despite this story have a different way that is knows of the legend.
Knowing it was cancelled leave me heartbroken I hope the production have some sense and bring it back.
You left us with an excellent cliff hanger, and you want to leave us perpetually hanging? Come on show some heart, and bring Camelot back.
Im absolutely heartbroken! I so enjoyed the first season! How can you leave me hanging like this…seriously???!!!
Yes, it was excellent and very entertaining, you must do a second series , almost everyone I know is very disappointed and would like the same.
Please bring the show back!!
Please bring the show back!! It’s a great show!
Absolutely love it!
I was very frustrated. How the story stops in the middle of the plot? Make at least a second season and try wrap it up.
Please make a second season! Or at least wrap things up with a special.
Bring camelot back
I thought the first series of camelot was excellent and thought there could have been a lot more of the story to make into a second series starz could have had another series as popular as spartacus,please make more there is a shortage of series out now that are worth watching
The show is awesome bring it back
Bring it back
Wow I surprised to read that the serie is cancelled! I’m from the Netherlands and this story is one to tell. So much more to make of and to good deeper in the characters. I hope they reconsider and try again now. We are a few years later so maybe they producers, staff, and actors can pick it up! Shame to lose à great serie like this.