AMC+ Reverses Season 2 Renewal Determination – Deadline

The moon colony is closing down as AMC+ is not going to proceed with a second season of Moonhaven. Phrase of the cancellation comes 4 months after the dystonic sci-fi sequence was renewed for a second season and days after AMC Networks introduced sweeping cost-cutting measures as CEO Christina Spade stepped down, which included shedding 20% of its U.S. employees, and write-downs for as much as $475 million because it restructures its enterprise. As much as $400 million of that’s for content-related strikes the corporate calls “strategic programming assessments”

In a SEC submitting, AMC Networks stated that “programming assessments pertain to a broad mixture of owned and licensed content material, together with legacy tv sequence and movies that may not be in energetic rotation on the corporate’s linear or digital platforms.”

The reverse of Moonhaven’s renewal resolution is a part of that effort, I hear.

The present’s demise continues to be stunning given the truth that AMC Networks touted its robust efficiency, and, in gentle of that, I heard the corporate thought of a two-season pickup earlier than going with a six-episode second season order in late July. On the time, AMC Networks stated that Moonhaven was its primary most-watched AMC+ unique sequence and quantity most-watched new sequence within the streamer’s historical past behind Darkish Winds.

Created by Peter Ocko, who served as showrunner, Moonhaven is targeted on a utopian colony on the Moon which will maintain the keys to preserving life on Earth.

It stars Dominic Monaghan, Emma McDonald, Amara Karan, Ayelet Zurer, Joe Manganiello, Kadeem Hardison and Yazzmin Newell.  

Set 100 years sooner or later, the sequence follows Bella Sway (McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler who finds herself accused of a criminal offense and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian neighborhood on a 500 sq. mile Backyard of Eden constructed on the moon to seek out options to the issues that may quickly finish civilization on Mom Earth. A skeptic in paradise, Bella is sucked right into a conspiracy to achieve management of the unreal intelligence accountable for Moonhaven’s miracles and groups with a neighborhood detective, Paul Serno (Monaghan), to cease the forces that wish to destroy Earth’s final hope earlier than they’re destroyed themselves. Tomm Schultz (Manganiello), an ex-military with a philosophical bent, is the proper hand of the lead Earth diplomat to the moon, who finds his ambitions modified when he’s injected with a mind-altering moon drug. 

Produced by AMC Studios, Moonhaven is exec produced by Ocko and Deb Spera.

“I couldn’t be extra excited to return to the Moon and proceed our story with this wonderful solid and crew,” Ocko stated on the time of the Season 2 renewal. “AMC+ has been an exquisite companion in bringing our world to life, and we are able to’t wait to proceed the journey.”