Dangerous information for followers of Amazon Prime Video’s “Motorheads” because the streamer has determined to not transfer ahead with a second season of the present. The YA sequence premiered on Prime Video again in Could and has remained within the streamer’s prime 10 most-watched exhibits ever since. Even so, the brass determined it wasn’t definitely worth the squeeze, so the sequence is becoming a member of the likes of “Paper Ladies” as Amazon exhibits that had been canceled after one season. However why, precisely, was it canceled? And is there any hope for the longer term?
“Motorheads” is about in a once-thriving rust-belt city that is now looking for a glimmer of hope, with the bigger story specializing in a gaggle of outsiders who type an unlikely friendship over a mutual love of avenue racing, all of the whereas navigating the hierarchy and guidelines of highschool. In line with Deadline, the 10-episode first season would be the just one produced for Prime Video.
John A. Norris (“All American”) created the sequence along with serving as its showrunner. The solid contains Ryan Phillippe (“Merciless Intentions”), Nathalie Kelley (“Dynasty”), Michael Cimino (“Love, Victor”), Melissa Collazo (“Freaky”), Uriah Shelton (“Woman Meets World”), Nicolas Cantu (“Cranium Island”), Drake Rodger (“The Winchesters”), Josh Macqueen (“Important Others”), Mia Healey (“The Wilds”), Matt Lanter (“90210”), Audrey Gerthoffer (“Occasion of 5”), and Johnna Dias-Watson (“Wednesday”).
As for the choice to cancel the present? “Motorheads” by no means made Nielsen’s weekly Prime 10 streaming rankings, regardless of charting particularly on Prime Video. The very fact of the matter is that streaming providers have been canceling TV sequence early lately, because the financial realities of the enterprise have come extra into focus. Therefore, this present did not make the minimize for a second season, not less than based mostly on no matter metrics Amazon makes use of to find out such issues. The excellent news is that followers of the sequence can maintain out hope that it’s going to dwell on elsewhere.
Motorheads might discover a new dwelling past Amazon
Once more, “Motorheads” is much from the primary Prime Video sequence to be canceled briefly order, however it’s one which appeared to be doing effectively with subscribers. To not point out that it additionally fared fairly effectively with critics and audiences alike. It holds a 78% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, nevertheless it additionally boasts an ideal 95% viewers rating.
That is exactly why, with permission from Amazon, the present’s producers want to see if they will discover a new streaming service or community prepared to make “Motorheads” season 2. Government producer Jason Seagraves confirmed to Deadline that the present’s creatives are, certainly, at the moment seeing if they will discover a new dwelling for the sequence. This is what he needed to say about it:
“We got down to make a present with no agenda and a whole lot of coronary heart, to present households one thing they will watch collectively. Whereas Johnny and I are disillusioned ‘Motorheads’ will not be persevering with at Prime Video, we could not be extra pleased with what the staff created. Regardless of going into launch with impossibly low viewers consciousness, our passionate and vocal fan base led the cost and made the sequence not possible to disregard. Their enthusiasm has energized us and we’re optimistic we’ll discover a dwelling that believes in and helps the present.”
Each firm within the streaming recreation has their very own equation for what works and what would not. Regardless of sturdy evaluations and an viewers that caught with the present, “Motorheads” did not work for Prime Video’s enterprise mannequin, it appears. However that does not imply it would not work some other place. For the second, it is not clear who is perhaps , however there are alternatives.
Netflix has saved quite a lot of exhibits from being canceled over time, however it is usually being a bit extra selective as of late, as is the remainder of Hollywood. We have additionally seen exhibits go from community TV to streaming, equivalent to “The Mindy Challenge,” which went from Fox to Hulu. Who is aware of? Perhaps this one may go the opposite means round, making the soar from Prime Video to a community hungry for YA programming equivalent to Freeform? Perhaps even MTV? Underneath the precise circumstances, the present may nonetheless proceed on. We will see what occurs within the coming weeks/months.
“Motorheads” is streaming now on Prime Video.
