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Spartacus: House of Ashur will not be returning for a second season. Starz has canceled the period drama after one series. However, Deadline reports that Lionsgate is looking for a new outlet for the series.
Nick E. Tarabay, Graham McTavish, Tenika Davis, Jamaica Vaughan, Ivana Baquero, Jordi Webber, Claudia Black, India Shaw-Smith, Leigh Gill, Dan Hamill, Andrew McFarlane, Jackson Gallagher, Jaime Slater, Simon Arblaster, Arlo Gibson, Cameron Rhodes, Evander Brown, Graham Vincent, Louis Hunter, and Donald Ross star in the series, which plays what-if with the Spartacus world. What if Ashur had lived?
Part of the reasoning behind the cancellation is that Starz no longer owns the series after its split from Lionsgate. It is also said that Spartacus: House of Ashur did not draw the viewership needed when it aired in December.
What do you think? Did you watch this Starz series? Were you hoping for a second season? Would you watch the series on another outlet?
It was really strange. It had enough of the old Spartacus, for those scenes, to be really entertaining, but just like the last couple of seasons of the original Spartacus they added too much dei. The premise of bringing back a dead character was already really strange, even if he was a popular character, and adding supernatural stuff in show where it hadn’t existed before was also strange. The biggest fault was having the woman character as a fighter and a champion, especially with people tired of the last decade of this same stuff, and with all the other stretches… Read more »
Sad to read this cancellation.I really enjoyed it.It is a really good follow up to the original Spartacus series.Damn,all the series I like are getting the axe.Why do the most awful shows get to stay on the air and the few good ones disappear?
Poor advertisements for it. Didn’t know it was available.