Amazon Prime Video has canceled their new sci-fi series, Night Sky, after one season, according to Deadline. The show’s first season, which contains eight episodes, was released on May 20th.
Per Deadline, the show was released to mostly positive reviews, but did not gain a significant enough amount of viewership to overcome the high costs of producing a sci-fi series.
Despite the show not continuing, Night Sky will have a place in TV history as the show’s first episode was beamed into outer space, making it the farthest distance from Earth that a TV series has been distributed. Amazon Prime Video became the first streaming service to distribute content directly into outer space, who completed this endeavor in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, SES, and Intelsat.
Night Sky starred Sissy Spacek (Old Man And The Gun), J.K. Simmons (The Tomorrow War), Chai Hansen (The New Legends Of Monkey), Kiah McKirnan (Mare Of Easttown), Julieta Zylberberg (The Invisible Eye), Rocío Hernández (Cato) and Adam Bartley (This Is Us). The show was co-produced by Amazon Studios and Legendary Television. Executive producers for the series included Holden Miller (The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore), Jimmy Miller (Land Of The Lost), Sam Hansen (Guilty Party), Phillip Martin (Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act), and Daniel C. Connolly (Into The Bandlands), who also served as showrunner.
Deadline provided a description of the series: “Spanning space and time, Night Sky follows Irene (Spacek) and Franklin (Simmons), a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber that leads inexplicably to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when an enigmatic young man (Chai Hansen) enters their lives, the Yorks’ quiet existence quickly is upended — and the chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could have imagined.”