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?
I also like how the setting was way back and showed us how music got started, how our famous singers got to where they was being great singers and making great music that we can still listen to today. The season was just getting started good and then yall just cut it off leaving us hanging…..that is unacceptable really. I was hooked after watching the first episode and never missed a episode. Iam just so disappointed that y’all took it off the air like it never happened! BRING BACK SUN RECORDS TV SERIES!!!
Sun Records was a really good show. I enjoyed watching it and I was really excited to see a 2nd season. I DON’T agree with y’all cancelling it!! Please reconsider and bring the series back. I read here that the 1st season had great rating so why did y’all cancel it? That is not cool by any means! BRING BACK SUN RECORDS SERIES FOR ANOTHER SEASON AND MORE!!!!!!
If you don’t renew Sun Records for season two you’re making a huge mistake. The story was just beginning to take shape. You’re leaving your viewers hanging by cancelling the series now. Not only is the story excellent but the actors and actresses are outstanding. This story needs to be told. I didn’t see one negative comment. If you don’t continue on with this story then you just don’t care about your viewers opinions.
I agree totally. The show is as really good
I LOVE Sun Records! The acting is just terrific and it is so well written. I am soo disappointed PLEASE rethink this action of cancelation… There aren’t many such entertaining TV Shows left!!
Love sun records I amarals sont disponibles the cancelled.
I was so looking forward to the second season!!!! WHY is it cancelled????
I am very disappointed that there is not going to be a second season. You left us high and dry. Elvis just started, Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, didnt even get started. Way to go CMT but you will put Nashville back on. Smh
This was a wonderful show enjoyed by my entire family! So sad something like this would be taken from the viewers options to leave more openings for trashy reality television.
I watched all the episodes. Thought they were very entertaining and fun to watch. Need a second season.
Too bad…only a few shows have been successful in capturing moments in time when it comes to music…recently… two come to mind that have been axed; SUN RECORDS…on the birth of Rock and roll …what a shame that those much younger than me will not have a chance to visually experience the artists and the sounds that built our rock and roll foundation. VINYL….another excellent look behind the scenes of the music industry just as it was morphing from 60’s kitsch into hard rock, punk, disco and the emergence of RAP…cancelled way too soon! Cheers to those who made these… Read more »
Why I dont understand ! It was awesome, its the real reason why we have Rock n Roll! Like John Lennon said before Elvis there was nothing!! Thats the truth! Dont be haters !! Bring the real truth why we have great music to this day!!
Great show..need to at least do a 2nd season.
Really enjoyed this show! Sad there’s not going to be another season! This show’s way better than Nashville!
Loved this show…please bring it back
It was the only reason I watched CMT. I didn’t even know about the show until I stumbled upon it flipping through stations. I stopped and watched the rest of the episode, then was texting friends to see if they might have any episodes on their DVR. None of my friends had heard of it either, and once they saw it, they were hooked too. Not sure CMT did enough to advertise the show. I even asked my Facebook friends(I think I had about 800 at the time)and only 3 people responded saying they had even heard of it! Guess… Read more »