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?
I guess you’ll give us more crap programming to replace Dark Matter. Getting to be less and less reason to turn the channel to SyFy. Do the right thing and renew Dark Matter and give it a proper final season.
Just heard the news and was upset with Syfy again for cancelling what I considered one of the best shows on Friday Night. Of the three shows I liked Dark Matter and Wynonna the best. Killjoys was good but seemed to be lacking something this year in my opinion. Buts its not the first time NBC & Syfy has cancelled the best Science Fiction/Fantasy shows on their networks just so they can keep garbage crap on the air. I don’t watch NBC anymore since Grimm ended and Syfy has become an afterthought most of the year anymore.
Very good show with wonderful cast. Evey time I throw myself into a show it seems to get cancelled. I was setting home wanting to watch Dark Matter at 8:00 our time, I knew something was wrong when it did not air. Please rethink this, it was one of my must watch shows set to record on my DVR. I will miss it greatly, again I really enjoyed the cast they worked well together.
Syfy is really no longer a science fiction channel. It has turned into a “fake” science fiction channel. By letting go of real science fiction shows this channel is now catering to the masses that can not follow a plot line or understand SCIENCE fiction. So very tired of the “sharknado” type of shows that have been trending lately. So very sad to see this happen. Way to go Syfy, cater to the illiterate.
Cmon why the f….. this and killjoys made a good scifi block. At least 1 more to close the show
Newest and best show out there and we’ll worth watching. If it wasn’t for shows like this Syfy wouldn’t still be on the air….
This makes me very upset with Sci-Fi network this was an amazing show. I can’t understand how they can cancel Dark Matter with all the other lousy shows on Sci-Fi still on the air. They got rid of great shows too early and keep the lousy shows going on.
Nooooo! My Violent Space Canadians!
I loved this show they have to bring it back for one more season!
By cancelling Dark Matter syfy have shown just how seriously they take their moto, “it’s a fan thing”. No it isn’t. syfy care not one iots for their fans and this proves it. SYFY, show how much you do listen to your fans and reinstate Dark Matter.
Big fan of Dark Matter. Very disappointed in Sci-Fi, again. Was a big fan of Defiance and Farscape and Sci-Fi cancelled them far too soon also. Farscape had a 5 year storyline and they canceled it in season 4, then, after the fans went crazy, released a 2 hour movie which was good, but failed to do the series justice. All I want from Sci-Fi is good original space shows that are allowed to run their course. Once again, it looks like I’ll have to look to other channels for that.
Send them $50MM and they will be glad to put it back on.
They are not your spiritual guide; they are a business.
The Expanse is a great space show. It’s still on syfy for know. 🙂
Wrong move SyFy. I have generally stopped watching the station because of all the stupid shows they put on. But I thought Dark Matter had a glimmer of hope for them returning to real Science Fiction. Guess not. Really tired of zombies and vampires and sharknadoes. They don’t even do them with class.
They could at least have done a short fourth season to wrap up loose ends. Not happy at all.
Really sad to see it go! I didn’t fit that demographic I am a 60 year old business owner. I think it had at least two more years of good story lines.
This CANNOT be happening again!! This is the best show on TV besides Supernatural… I even love it more than Doctor Who. It’s Firefly all over again; only maybe WORSE because I seriously doubt that Dark Matter will be able to publish books that continue the story. I will NEVER watch the SyFy channel again unless y’all bring Dark Matter back. I’ve always defended this channel when others bad-mouthed it–but now I will be the one telling everyone I know, and many that I don’t, what a pathetic excuse the SyFy channel is to the sci-fi wotld. I’m only one… Read more »