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 don’t get it. It had really good ratings. What are these decisions to renew or cancel a show based upon?
I would have loved to see at least a final season.
I don’t understand why you would cancel. It got better and better with every season. This is the reason ppl stop watching shows because they get cancelled with so much more to go, leaving fans furious. Why even bother getting into a show just to be left disappointed. Syfy you really screwed up this time, you will lose so many fans, and who will want to watch another series of yours just to have it end like this, NOT ME!!! To the cast: You do deserve more, you all are fantastic and I’m sure you will do more great things.
It’s a verhaal darm matter, syfy decoders tot cancel thuis show. Is IT all about big profits then? In watched IT with great pleasure in Europese. Such a disappointment.
I was liking this show more and more and now it is cancelled. I wish they would have Finale episode to wrap things up. It ought to be a requirement to have a finale episode if there are two seasons or more . You gave them your loyalty and time, you shouldn’t be left hanging. Good luck to the cast members , Especially Melissa O’Neil!
I’m so disapointed with Syfy! My favorite show gone without closure! Dark Matter deserved quite a few more seasons. Such a well written show with exciting personalities who hooked you into their lives and adventures. If SYFY cares at all about its viewers they will bring DarkMatter back to us ! Please!
Damn…errr, darn. This is not fair. We really, really enjoy this show. The premise itself is so interesting. The android is just so marvellous, and each character has it’s own fascination to us. Why, why, why is it being cancelled???? Sci Fi this good should continue…..but, well, this is not fair. Please reconsider.
I feel pissed and betrayed. To top it off, everyone I knew loved Dark Matter and watched killjoys because it came before or after. Dark matter was the draw, always. This is unbelievable. I didn’t even think about it cuz I just thought it was assumed, season three. Clearly syfy doesn’t give a shot about quality. They finally turned out an amazing SciFi show, so of course they can it. Then they renew killjoys for two more seasons to say an FU to us all.
(no offense to killjoys: i liked you, but you were no dark matter.)
Agreed. The only reason I started watching Killjoys was due to its proximity to Dark Matter.
Although i watch Wynonna, I prefer DM which has over 100K more people viewing and a better score on 18-49 demographic? (from figures on this site) So guessing it must back stage politics and profit margins. Wynonna is probably much cheaper to produce, direct, and the actors surely can’t get paid too much, they don’t have to stretch their talents too far to be credible.
I haven’t felt this disappointed since Firefly. What a bad move! At least let them finish the series instead of leaving us on the worst cliffhanger!
agree about Firefly and DarkMatter and Constantine as well. What the hell is wrong with these executives. They have to kill great shows and keep mediocre ones. Now they really only have the Expanse.
I would sacrifice it all to keep the Expanse on the air. If you’ve read the books, you know what is coming, what is hinted at. All these crappy, sophomoric, Canadian fast food sci-fi shows can go hang. The Expanse is fine dining.
I hate it when good shows are cancelled. at the very least i think syfy should allow a special 2 hour episode to tidy up the loose ends. this way the fans won’t be p!ssed off
This was one of my favorite shows so naturally they cancelled it! I liked all of the characters, but my favorite was the android, a tough role to play, which was done amazingly by the actor, and all the actors on the show were great!
I love good sci-fi! too bad SyFy does not. If you just have to cancel a great show, at least let the creators and fans enjoy a final season.
SyFy what are you doing!? Dark Matter is a great show with lots of great character development for each crew on the Raza. I was especially looking forward to Suki (Android) use her emotion chip more often and also her awkward relationships with each of the crew. Now I have only one show now to eagerly look forward to, and that’s the new season of Killjoys. SyFy, you have ended sooo many amazing shows before they were ready. Now I’ll forever wonder why Five and Six were hugging about. There was a juicy reveal there and you shut it down!… Read more »
not happy with you Syfy I like to dark matter