Cancel your season two plans, fans. There will be no second season of the Sun Records TV show on CMT. The story is ending with one season and has already been removed from the press site. The series is set in Memphis, Tennessee, during the early days of the Civil Rights movement and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.
A music business drama, Sun Records stars Chad Michael Murray, Billy Gardell, Drake Milligan, Kevin Fonteyne, Christian Lees, and Jonah Lees. The CMT cast also includes: Trevor Donovan, Keir O’Donnell, Jennifer Holland, Margaret Anne Florence, and Kerry D. Holliday.
Deadline reports:
While Nashville — which is half-way though its first season on CMT and fifth overall — has been renewed for a 16-episode sixth season, there are no plans to extend its companion, 8-episode period drama Sun Records, which chronicles the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, CMT’s head of development Jayson Dinsmore told Deadline.
“Originally we had planned for it to be a three-night events, and we morphed the development into a limited-run series,” Dinsmore said of Sun Records, which got a boost by airing behind Nashville. “It always was to be a limited-run series. It did extremely well but there are no current plans for additional episodes. We may revisit. You never know, because it did quite well.”
Sun Records: A Look at the Ratings
The first season of Sun Records averaged a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 585,000 viewers. While those ratings seem low in comparison to broadcast network TV series, they fall between the other CMT TV shows we are tracking (i.e. Nashville and Still the King).
What do you think? Did you watch the first season of the Sun Records TV series? Do you think CMT should have cancelled or renewed it for season two?
How can you let a show like this go CMT? You are abandoning your fans who loved Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, and so many others.
RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW!
PLEASE!!!!
Please Renew it!!!! It was a great show and so well done!! There so much junk on tv and it was a pleasure to have such a quality show to watch.
Yet again another good show gets the axe. It is important to tell the story of how these 50’s artists made it into the industry. Plus the young actors were outstanding.
What a shame to cancel season 2. You never even gave it a chance to get off the ground. Also I think a lot of people had hoped to see a little more about Elvis. But dang, you sold it out before it had a chance.
So much more of the story I was looking forward to. I’m going to be sad forever over this. 🙁
I had to add another package to my Comcast line up to watch your Sun Records,
Sub is now gone and so are you………Ronn
My wife and I really liked the show. Bring it back!
I really wish you would renew Sun Records CMT! Its so important to show the younger generation how amazing and talented these 3 men were! Your never going to find a person that looks and sings so much like Elvis again! Please please renew for the fans! 🙁
Yes.. a second season would be awesome.. I was hooked after three episodes.. ease bring it back!!
Wow, I was really hoping that there would be another season for this show. I love the actors chosen to play the entertainers….especially Jerry Lee!!! Please reconsider and bring it back to us.
I really enjoyed it. Just watched the last episode last night. Interesting how many people were such sleazeballs, including Sam Phillips, Colonel Parker and Vernon Presley. I’d really like the story to go further. Please bring it back.
I liked sun Records. Waiting for Season 2 . Disappointedthis show has been cancelled… Was just getting good. Or at least put it on Netflex or something so I can find out what happens next☹️
CMT please bring Sun Records back! It was one of the things I looked forward to every week!
Please bring this back. It is an AWESOME show!
I should have known that by liking it, it would be canceled so we can be fed more garbage.