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?
Killjoys was renewed for two more “final” seasons. I would have loved if they did the same for Dark Matter and allowed them to tell the whole story.I will be boycotting killjoys. Darkmatter had better than killjoys.
The last season of killjoys was bad and I think the ratings are going to go down without dark matter their for folks like me that watched both just because. I won’t be looking for killjoys next season.
sorry but why should i not attack stupid dissensions. by cancelling Dark MATTER u ask for disrespect that was such a awesome tv series my god. Ilove the guys and what was about to happened at least complete the season for god sake i want to say it a holes man i dont no what to say there goes my friday nites now whyyyyy
This is why we are not allowed nice things. When they start producing the goods, they are taken from us.
I don’t know who’s running things there but you should have suspected it was folks who think they are smarter they they are.
For me it started with the changing of the “Sifi” (Science Fiction) to “Syfy” (What the “F” does that stand for ?).
I was hoping for at least one more season.
Very disappointed that the series has been cancelled. Hope it returns.
I’m so upset over this! It was one of the most enjoyable shows for me since its start. What a bad decision to cancel one of the best sci-fi shows they got. I thought that’s what Syfy was all about?
It’s really unfortunate that I like their shows and get sucked in every time, because they do cancel A LOT of good ones. Defiance, Helix, SG:U… They could at least stop ending season finales with so many unanswered questions/cliffhangers.
BRING IT BACK!
IM ABOUT TO JUST STOP WATCHING SYFY ALTOGETHER! I LOVE THEIR SHOWS, ITS JUST SYFY’S NON EPISODIC ALWAYS END EACH SEASON WITH MORE THAN JUST 1 “CLIFF HANGER”, BUT MANY!
NOW THEY’VE CANCELLED ANOTHER SHOW WITH SO MANY OPEN-ENDED STORY LINES. NOW WE WILL NEVER NO THE CONCLUSION TO SO MUCH!
THIS HAPPENS MORE WITH SYFY THAN ANY OTHER CHANNEL ITS LIKE READING AN EXCITING CRIME/DRAMA NOVEL — AND THEN THROWING THE FINAL 5 CHAPTERS AWAY WITH NO HOPE WITH FINDING THOSE!!
SYFY-YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!! YOU OWE US, YOUR LOYAL FANS MORE RESPECT THAN THAT!
Why why oh why !!! …. Just cancelling at a top cliff hanger. Don’t you think about all the fans. Just thinking and acting selfish ? At least give this great serie a respectable end with a fourth and final season. Shame on you !
I am rather tired of syfy building up a show and then cancelling it. I mean what do they expect, airing on a friday night during the warmer months. Those like me that love the show watch it via buying the seasons on Amazon or other streaming services. I stopped watching syfy for years after all the good shows were cancelled (the stargates etc). Then defiance came to be, got hooked on it. Fraking cancelled (though it wss like the writers started spending too much time on drugs the last season). Then I find dark matter and killjoys out of… Read more »
I ‘am so upset you started the season of Dark Matter and you leave a cliff hanger at least finish the series if you don’t want it to continue. I enjoyed it so much it a waste to see it go I wanted it to last at least two more seasons. You put other series like killjoy that so boring. sorry, you take out good series on TV and take it out and people enjoyed and see it then you remove it to put other junk on SyFy.
Who figures out the ratings? Van Helsing is doing well?
Ⓖood news, I’ve never bought it on iTunes so no suppoert at all. I guess it was another show with most illegal viewers.
Dark Matter is one of the best shows on Syfy, with an impressive set up for another season. The acting is engaging, and the story well crafted. This is a very poor decision.
how dare they cancel that great show and keep killjoys which is not half as good as Dark Matter. SyFy you suck.
Syfy has made a mistake. The show has incredible chemistry with its cast and the writing is on point. Rather than cancel outright, at least allow the show to end with a proper finale.
Since FAILED RATINGS don’t matter to SYFY, why did they get rid of it? It had better ratings than Wynonna Earp(0.12), and that was renewed. What is the cutoff for FAILURE at SYFY? The live average ratings for 12 Monkeys in season three was below a 0.10. The only show on SYFY to have better ratings than the season before was The Magicians. I don’t know what the final ratings for Killjoys season 3 is yet, but it at least had a chance to do the same as last season. We’ll find out Tuesday or Wednesday.