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?
Please reconsider, this show is awesome. These days, the other programs I have watched have not caught might attention like this one. The plot is completely different and sooooooooooooooo interesting. I would say that if this was a moving I would pay to see it. I am very disappointed.
I was looking forward to the next season. I have to admit, when I saw the title of the show, it didn’t sound like something I’d watch. A friend recommended it, so I got caught up, and watched every week. What a disappointment; it was one of the few shows I tuned into. It’s one of those shows that needed another season for audiences to catch on.
It really is a shame to cancel such a good show. what a waste of time only to watch on season then get cancelled.
Well that blows! Have been waiting for the 2nd season to return and am extremely disappointed to hear it has been cancelled. Actually my favorite new show.
Oh Man!!! This is so upsetting. I have so been looking forward to this show returning. I rarely watch TV and this show just captured me. I couldn’t wait for season 2. I watched them all on On Demand because I’d never heard of it until the season was over and someone told me about it. This has got to be just really poor advertising. The show was great and the actors were great. This should be brought back!!
I Loved this show! I watched it faithfully and told others of it. Very sad!
Please back the show it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen and if you put out a new season not only will it make your over 1 million viewers (which is a lot) happy but it will bring in more audiences because people will be more willing to go and tell there friends and about it and maybe put out more ads because I didn’t even hear about it till after the show ended I just finished and I am heart broken after finding out that it was cancelled and mad that the creator screwed his fans… Read more »
I liked this show! I want it back. It shows a concept, at least, of what it was like back then. The storyline was very good.
I would watch another season, I miss it!
I agree with you completely.
I think maybe a lot of people couldn’t handle the violence in the first show. I almost didn’t continue watching, but thought I’d give show #2 a chance and it proved to be my favorite show. I was looking forward to the series. The acting was superb.
Please reconsider…I have been waiting for the new season! I can’t believe it won’t be on!!!
I have been waiting for the new season! I can’t believe it’s not coming back…It was a great show!!! Give it another chance…
Bring the Executioner back, the show is great! So much work and dedication went into this production. Please bring it back! Amazing writers and actors worked so hard! I loved this show!! Reconsider, please.Thank you!
I thought the show showed great promise but I only saw a couple of episodes and then taped all the episodes when I had time to marathon watch so I’m really disappointed as since I’m changing out my DVR, I will lose all the shows I recorded. After the big build up, I don’t think it was given a chance. Maybe it was conflicting in the time space?
Great historical epic. I just happened on it and recorded all the shows. Would like to see it continue instead of some ridiculous comedy or reality show. I agree it didn’t receive the promotion it needed and the title of the series could have been part of the problem. Didn’t fit well with the majority of story line.