It seems that Syfy has been making a push to get back to their roots by focusing more on science fiction programming. Will The Expanse be a hit in the ratings for the cable channel or will it be a flop? Cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
The Expanse is based on the James S. A. Corey book serie. It’s set centuries into the future where Earth’s population has ballooned to over 30 billion and humans have colonized the solar system. Police detective Miller (Thomas Jane) and his crew must unravel a conspiracy that threatens peace and the survival of humanity. The rest of the cast includes Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Florence Faivre, Paulo Constanzo, Chad L. Coleman, and Jared Harris.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
12/31 update: Syfy has renewed The Expanse for a second season. Details here.
Final season averages: 0.22 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 700,000 total viewers.
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What do you think? Do you like The Expanse TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
one of the greatest sf series ever. 9 if not 10 out of 10. i cant wait for the second season. im really surprised that it got a mediocre viewership. Maybe it starts slowly but after ep3-4 i was hooked enough to finish watching in one night. acting is decent to good, while the execution, cgi and story are excellent. but yeah this show is not very popular i foind out about it just recently by an accident. i think it could be bigger if it was more known
. the expense is going where no show has gone before with realistic futuristic space travel and a political situation that we could easily see happen today and in fact we are trying our hardest to go to mine asteroids as we speak. It got great reviews from all the critics online everybody was talking about the show I would say. But WTF Syfy how can you ask for good ratings when you release all four episodes at one time everybody Pirates them watches them in two nights . What a horrible decision it makes no sense whatsoever and another… Read more »
I watched the whole first season. It definitely tied things together in episodes 8 and 9. I rewatched the first year as I am not too bright and it takes time for things to click for me. I enjoyed it even more and noticed a lot the smaller things I missed the first time. I am onboard for season 2. Well made show and the cast owned their roles by the end of the season, which makes sense over time.
Couldn’t get into The Expanse. I was bored to death through the first 3 episodes, and quit watching. The ratings look to have been worse than that of Defiance and Dominion, and the got canned. Mark my words, the expanse will end up canned, by the end of season 2.
It seems like most of the people that like the show have read the books. The show looks amazing but the writers need to hook new fans and based on the first 4 episodes the script was too slow boring and convoluted with too many characters that were hard to follow and unlikable. I am going to try to catch back up now that the first season has ended and I heard it picks up later.
This is an excellent show if you enjoy the relative realism of hard science fiction and have the patience to watch the entire first season to begin to understand the plot and appreciate the character relationships. Watching fewer episodes is confusing if you have not read the books. The authors of the five critically acclaimed and best-selling books are directly involved in the writing for the show, so an extremely complex world and characters are almost seamlessly transferred from the first book which was nominated for a Hugo. The mixed reviews undoubtedly reflect the difficulty of cramming a complex hard… Read more »
This show is amazing. Rich, and worth every second of my life it took. People who have anything negative to say, don’t know jack about what it means to turn to the syfy channel. ANd to them I say ‘go somewhere else’
Look at the ratings, in them think she did show really continue lobby cancel swim better shows recently? There’s no sense here why would they cancel all the shows better ratings and leave this crap on the air? Some overzealous producer Kenaston failure but will keep the showroom regardless how bad is his look at the ratings again, She does she’ll be on the year overwhelming no it shouldn’t be. The books were Great but this show sucks.
Read all the books a while ago. SyFy has done a brilliant job – put real hardcore scfi on the screen – even though I know whats happening its still a riveting series to watch!!!!
If you like this show, just watch it, but I watched the first few episodes and then decided it wasn’t worth the effort. Too much going on that I just did not understand.
I agree with you…..I watched up to 7 and I. Can’t stand it anymore…..it’s a pain watch, actors and bad, roles are worst…..and after a few shows 2nd season? Did anyone there. Looked at the rating System? It lost ratings then added……some morbit people would like this crap,.i HOPE the cancell this trash.
It’s a shame that anything with any intelligence these days people have no patience for, just watch the show and give it a chance it really is great.
Lol The IQ of the show is not as high as you think it is for people who watch it. Good grief this sure has so much of the violence in the end it shows that the mentality of people who watch it. Hence quality of the show the actors crap lines etc. etc. etc. shows just how bad the series is. I can’t believe they’ve canceled other more successful series care of this crap on the air. I stopped watching after seven episode. I couldn’t take bad acting accents with the bad and the bad acting with the bad… Read more »
The expanse is a great show. Not enough writers spend enough time making things seem as realistic as possible. Right down to the little details like the crack in the guys phone. Amazing show, again its just the fact that to many people need Adderall to enjoy anything these days.
I would be incredibly disappointed if they cancelled this show, It’s fantastic, and I’m usually not someone that’s big on Sci-fi shows period. The acting is decent(to very good), visually It’s fantastic & not doesn’t try to hard to look futuristic imo(Say like Demolition Man) , and the story in itself is excellent. This show is so good I’m now currently reading the books that this show was based on (By James S.A. Corey-The Churn to be specific) & they’re fantastic as well. I think part of the reason It’s not getting good ratings is hardly anyone has heard about… Read more »
Boring! Gave it 4 epys and then stopped watching like 1000’s of others.
Boring! Gave it 4 epys and stopped watching like 1000’s of others.
Unfortunately I have lost interest in this show. I have read all the books so far and while I accept that film/tv versions of books are never the same, I am very disappointed in the way the main characters(Rocinate’s crew) have been portrayed. The crew were stuck to each other like glue. If one was threatened, all were threatened. There wasn’t any thought to right or wrong. They would defend each other without question with their lives. This was/is a main thread throughout the whole series of stories and it has been completely destroyed. The show’s producer(s)/director(s) have turned these… Read more »
You are obviously seeing the crew by who they as the series progresses. This show is the same crew at the beginning.