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Prime Video Cancels ‘Motorheads’ After One Season as Producers Shop the Series

Modest viewing-hour rankings outweighed strong completion rates.

Overview

  • Prime Video opted not to renew the YA drama roughly three months after its 10-episode first season debuted in May.
  • With Amazon’s permission, producers have begun talks with potential new platforms, and an executive producer expressed optimism about finding a new home.
  • The show maintained a presence in Prime Video’s U.S. daily Top 10 and holds Rotten Tomatoes scores of 78% from critics and 95% from audiences.
  • Despite engagement, the series never reached Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 and peaked at No. 19 on Luminate’s streaming chart with 3.29 million hours the week of May 23.
  • It is unusual for an internally produced streamer original to be shopped post-cancellation, and the first season ends with unresolved storylines that fans are campaigning to see continued.