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?
WHAT is WRONG with TV execs??? How can they keep doing this over and over? Losing Terminator TSCC broke my heart, especially after watching the last episode. This just triggers my PTSD :-/
Nooooo! I’m so upset! We need to somehow get this show back on the air. I’m so darn sad!
Dark Matters is a show I watch every Friday night. Now I do not watch Friday nights now. Syfy; has disappointed my self and from reading the other comments a lot of syfy watchers have had it with shows being ended with series left wide open and no real end in sight. We the viewers would like you to change this and listen to the viewers.
Man why did you leave us hanging on Dark Matter
**** like Z-nation is still on. So no spinoff to answer some show questions. What a waste of people’s time.
Extremely disappointed that Dark Matter has been cancelled. What chance of a mini series (like Farscape) to wrap up the loose ends? There seems to be no old fashioned story based sci-fi anymore! I might have misunderstood, but this great sci-fi series was cancelled by the Syfy channel – the supposed home of sci-fi. Not!!
I liked the show they definetly need to renew it. how is it that good shows seem to get cancelled and stupid ones seem to last.
That is the worst news ever..
This is a great show. There is no need to cancel it. You never gave it a chance. Moving the time it was shown hurt it’s chances. Please bring it back at least for a series finally season. Syfy maybe better than Fox at killing shows.
I was able to watch all the episodes. the fact that I watched all of them is a good indicator that the show was entertaining. I’m shocked that it was cancelled.
Big mistake! Dark Matter was SyFy at its best!! Great actors, sets, story lines, action, twists…had it all. Give it another season and promote the show a bit! All the trekkers our there will love it!!
I just found out Dark Matters will not have a season 4! You left the series at a place with too many unanswered questions–at least end the series with a conclusion rather than a cliffhanger…. Ending after season 3 is unacceptable for specially from the SyFy station, a station that I thought cared about their viewers.
I really enjoyed Dark Matter. I wish they would bring it back
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! One of my Favorite’s, Y’all better not Kill the Expanse or we be fightin
dark matter is just as good as killjoys ! will miss them. Wynonna Earp still on ok but space is what’s happening .