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Amazon Prime Video Cancels The Wheel of Time After Three Seasons

Production costs outpaced audience numbers, with fans now campaigning online to keep the series alive.

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Overview

  • Amazon executives cited rising production expenses, slipping audience figures, and competition from costlier franchises like The Rings of Power and Fallout as reasons for the cancellation.
  • Season 3 garnered praise for its production values and offered the most faithful screen adaptation yet of The Shadow Rising segment while still diverging in key character arcs.
  • Showrunner Rafe Judkins had outlined plans for fourth and fifth seasons that would build toward the saga’s climactic Last Battle, but those arcs have now been shelved.
  • The SaveWOT campaign offers fans a centralized site to sign petitions, create supporter content, and coordinate social media efforts to urge another network to pick up the series.
  • Observers and fans have debated the series’ creative liberties with Robert Jordan’s source material, praising its accessibility for new viewers while critiquing its more radical plot and character adjustments.