Wilkin Brattle (Lee Jones) can now beat his sword into a plowshare, since there will not be a second season of The Bastard Executioner TV show. FX has cancelled the Tuesday night drama after one season of ten episodes.
According to Deadline, creator Kurt Sutter, who also plays the Dark Mute character, knew the 14th century period drama would not return for season two, when he filmed the season one and series finale.
Deadline reports Sutter took out ads (below) in the trades, to thank the cast, crew, and the network. Said cast includes: Jones, Sutter, Stephen Moyer, Matthieu Charneau, Katey Sagal, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Sam Spruell, Darren Evans, Danny Sapani, Timothy V. Murphy, Sarah White, Sarah Sweeny, Ethan Griffiths, and Ross O’Hennessy.
According to Deadline, Sutter did not break the bad news to the cast at the time, as the decision was not then final, and he did not want cancellation news to affect production. Last week, star Katy Sagal admitted she was not sure if there would be a second season.
As of episode nine, which aired Tuesday, November 10, 2015, The Bastard Executioner was not faring well in the ratings. Its to-date season average ratings in the 18-49 demographic was a mere 0.45, with a total average audience size of 1.26 million viewers. Dateline mentions that the ratings were not high enough, considering the cost of shooting on location, in Wales.
This show has been added to the growing list of shows that won’t be back next season.
What do you think? Do you like FX’s The Bastard Executioner TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled? Would you have watched a second season?
This makes me soooooooooo sad!
Bring it back. It was a great show.
i loved this show. crap on the cancel
Every time I like a show they cancel it…..
bring it back
i loved this show!!!!
Horsesh*t….this show was awesome….very good story lines…I couldn’t wait for the next show from week to week…guys at work would talk about it and make predictions on what would happen next… season one very good….you cannot cancel this show….you so called experts kill me with your decisions…keeping shows that are bunk…cancelling shows that are good…..what a load of crap FX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just told my son the same thing, don’t start watching new shows because they may not renew them
The show had poor promotion, lacking drama or depth in the few commercials shown. I set my DVR anyway and was amazed and mesmerized by what I saw. This was one of the best shows to come around in a long time. Between Fx with it’s reality shows and “We’ve got the movies” (yes the same 10 movies playing nonstop since you became a network.) I’m tired of exceptional shows getting dropped due to network incompetence and crappy ones on season after season. I’m not going to invest myself in new shows just so they can be yanked. I’ll be… Read more »
Agree, this is an excellent series and should be aired for another season
I’m considering the same as after watching a couple, I taped all the episodes so this is very disappointing as it was taking up space in DVR only to be cancelled and was planning to get one DVR to record 6 at one time and be able to watch on more than one TV making it easier to keep up. I have a friend who only watches TV on Roku now. If you watch Amazon and Net Flix, does that mean you don’t have a main server like Bright House or Verizon?
Don’t give up on it!!! Shop it around. Great show!!! I wonder if the name turned people away from watching?
I enjoyed the show very much and am very disappointed FX cancelled it. I wish another network would pick it up.p
I liked the show. my husband and myself set the dev and we never miss it. We would have liked a second season!
Bugger why do great shows never get a chance to grow. Never heard of the show. Just looking on Amazon prime for something to watch. Found this one and watch all ten episodes in a day. Started last night fell asleep woke thinking about it finished it off. Only now went on line to see when the next season starts and it wont. Very sad news. Maybe see it on Prime, Hulu or Flex. They seem to have people that enjoy a good drama.
I’m so upset I wish there was one more season to see if more people watch love this show
I dont think enough people even knew about this show. I didn’t ever see
any advertising for it. I just happened to watch one episode and I was
hooked. Why do they cancel the good shows, and renew the boring ones?
Bring this one back.
I agree