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?
Bad move sci-fi. Who’s gonna even bother to watch your next series if they know there’s a good chance it’s gonna be dropped after a season or two? Probably not me. Dare to be different! Get off the stupid reality TV bandwagon and produce stuff worth watching.
99% of SyFy’s viewership problems is they’ve alienated the fan base that made them great. They constantly cancel great sci-fi shows in favor of **** like WWF/WWE/sharknado/etc all in the interest of making ‘TV on the cheap’.
Guess what…. doing that has killed your viewer base. That’s why your shows have low ratings, because nobody watches your channel anymore.
Here’s hoping that Netflix or CW pick up Dark Matter. Because it’s better than a lot of other shows out there.
Netflix yes, CW no. I don’t want this show turning into another supergirl, some show geared towards little girls with stupid love flings and pointless episodes with musicals and such.
But ya, the cancellation of this show is stupid as all hell. They left it on the ultimate cliffhanger with an alien armada coming through a giant rip in the space/time continuum and it’s like ‘well, time to end it now, byes!’.. Morons..
Syfy always does this they keep all the loser shows on and cancel the best ones. Maybe they should cancel or terminate the person who is making all loyal Syfy fans stop watching.
Come on how we want season 4 and more!!!
Dark Matter was a very good show. The creators and Syfy need to merge it with Firefly and create a whole new series with the two crews uniting.
….Dude, you just made my day! Rumor has it that Nathan Fillion wants to bring back Firefly, and to have the two correlate would be friggin’ amazing! (if done correctly ofc, kinda like a Arrow and The Flash work-a-long =3
Yes!! Heed this “Johns” wize words of wisdom! 😀
PS: Bring back the best Sci-Fi show in this day and age! We want more ^-^
Hopefully someone will pick it up.
I think they should have kept it on. One of my top shows. However I do not care in the least about “Talk about shows” and most likely will never watch one. I watch the shows which is all I care about. I think many others feel the same way. Hopefully the networks are not considering the participation in these behind the scenes fluff.
I am saddened by the cancellation of one of my favorite series Dark Matter! Please reconsider and at least give us one more season and give us some closure some sort of proper ending.
Season 1 this was my favorite show on the air, but by season 3 I couldn’t even watch it. From turning 2 from the strong determined leader who was going to become a better person and get herself and the others out of the nightmare they made of their lives, to by season 3 her being someone who usually was either indifferent to others being in danger to be the one turning on them — and studiously trying to not care about the others. She seemed to be following 3’s leed back to being what she’ld been before. From the… Read more »
I am done with SyFy channel. They can’t be trusted, and they have no respect for fans. I hope someone else picks up Dark Matter, it’s the best Sci Fi in ages. Meanwhile, I am sure the syfy channel can find some more crappy Asylum movies to run.
So disapointed! I thought you were better than this SiFi! Why end a series leaving fans with no knowledge how the story ends??? I am so sick of networks doing that. I thought SiFi wouldn’t do that. Why should I watch any new series ??? You just may leave us in the lurch. Dark Matter was my favorite show!
SyFy (and its former SciFi) has an extensive library of bovine excrement when it comes to the cancellation of excellent shows; typically in favor of keeping mediocre programming that stink like the aforementioned bovine excrement.
I think SyFy has a ****** history of cancelling the best show for mediocre drivel and Dark Matter is the latest victim.
Yes Season Four For Dark Matter TV Series
Season Four Going To be Interesting And Better
Including Season All With 24 Episodes
This is a great, imaginative and enjoyable show to watch. It’s one of the central shows that actually was a draw for us to the Syfy channel. Huge mistake in dropping it.
I’m on the fence, with even bothering with any new sigh shows after this!!! This was by far ur best series since eureka, no reason this couldn’t at least b concluded in a season 4!!!!