It’s a dark time for fans of Dark Matter. Deadline reports Syfy has cancelled the TV show after three seasons.
The sci-fi drama follows the crew of a derelict spaceship who awake with no memory and who must work together to survive a threatening voyage charged with vengeance, betrayal, and plenty of secrets. The cast includes Marc Bendavid, Melissa O’Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr, Jodelle Ferland, Roger Cross, and Zoie Palmer.
Ratings for Dark Matter have been low for some time. Overall, season three averaged a .15 rating in the 18-49 demo and only 614,000 viewers, making it one of Syfy‘s lower-rated TV shows for the 2016-2017 season.
On his blog, co-creator Joseph Mallozzi confirmed the show’s cancellation and thanked the fans, cast, and crew:
It is with great sadness that I confirm the news. Syfy has cancelled Dark Matter after three seasons.
To say that I’m incredibly disappointed would be an understatement.
I’ll save my comments and field your questions in a future blog entry. For today, I just want to extend a heartfelt thanks to my amazing crew, my wonderful cast, and to all of you, our incredible fans.
You all deserved better.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of Dark Matter? Do you think Syfy should’ve renewed the series?
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171 Comments on "Dark Matter: Cancelled by Syfy; No Season Four"
wait what no way wtf is wrong with you syfy how can you cancel this show
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This is unbelievable news! I was angry when Defiance was cancelled, but had joy with Dark Matter. Killjoys is exactly that – a killjoy and not at all enjoyable to watch. But it has a much lower salary and production budget so that is why it was kept.
I hope Netflix decides to pick up Dark Matter, and kick Syfy to the curb which it so richly deserves.
Its tough being a good scifi show, just not enough intelligent people around to sustain an audience.
Dark matter is a great show you can’t leave us hanging as you did at the very least you should give us fans an ending worthy of the show its self. But would rather another season. I didn’t watch on cable but on an Internet app and loved the show please bring it back for season 4
I agree Dark Matter was one of my favorite shows. I like the space genre and found the characters fun and easy to follow plot with each episode. I hope another channel will pick up the series. Thanks to the actors, writers and creator’s for a great show.
Wow wtf. This is one of my all time favorite shows. They definitely should try to keep it going for at least Netflix. Show ratings on cable are not always low because the show isn’t any good it’s because people would rather pay for Netflix and get more options than paying out the butt for cable. I’m one of those people
OH No. I loved that show. Made my Friday nights. Please dont cancell…
I have just discovered this show on Netflix and love it. The story is unique, great cast, acting was fantastic, Each character brought so much to the show. I love the strong female roles. All sexy by the way. All in and kept me motivated and interested in watching the show. I am so bummed out to learn it has been canceled. I have to agree with others that I can’t believe reality tv, paranormal crap stays on tv and quality entertainment such as Dark Matter gets canceled… Ughh
as if! what a crock of bull! yet these stupid shows like haunted and others such are still going? cant get any good shows to go past one season the last few years! makes for crappy tv now. upsetting to say the least@@
Please bring season 4 back great show .. since grimm is gone …love this show can’t stand star trek
Don’t let this show die. JOIN THE FIGHT!
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bummer ! another great si fi show dumped in the tradition of star trek and fire fly.with so much crap surviving ,I wonder if its demise was due to a lack of promotion.
Yeap, cancelled Directv upon learning Dark Matter was cancelled, bye Syfy, you will not receive any more of my time. If I choose to watch you, it will be on the net…..I am tired of supporting you only to be disappointed. You are like MTV, forgetting what you are supposed to be doing.
Omg! They left it with such big cliffhangers!! Whyyy do they do this to us!! They should AT LEAST give us final episodes!!
I totally agree, so sick of them cancelling good shows on cliffhangers. These days the minority’s seem to win these days, not with good shows though. I watch killjoys but out of the two I would have thought killjoys would have gone first over Dark Matter. These quality shows may not have high viewing figures but their viewers are very much top quality and deserve the right for some closure if they are going to cancel. Come on syfy, you are going to lose your diehard fans.
This is becoming old. It seems more and more that syfy has trouble understanding what a good science fiction show is. Dark Matter had all the ingredients to be a long running, positive addition to the rich history of science fiction television. A space opera with overtones similar to Firefly and other well written sci-fi series, the execs at the station should be replaced with people who program what the station was designed for…..good….real science fiction.