The Wheel of Time is channeling the One Power no more.
The epic fantasy series has been canceled after three seasons at Prime Video, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed.
Adapted from Robert Jordan's best-selling book series, The Wheel of Time followed Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike), a powerful sorceress of the Aes Sedai on a quest to find and train the Dragon Reborn. The Dragon Reborn, eventually revealed to be Rand al'Thor (Josha Stradowski), is a prophesied legendary figure foretold to either save the world from the Dark One or destroy it.
The show also followed Rand's loved ones — Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford), Nynaeve al'Meara (Zoë Robins), Mat Cauthon (Dónal Finn), and Egwene al'Vere (Madeleine Madden), all powerful in their own right — as well as various other Aes Sedai and magical creatures grappling with their own journeys amid the Dark One's impending influence.
The cancellation news will no doubt come as a disappointment to diehard fans, who in recent weeks started a campaign to save the show.
According to Prime Video, The Wheel of Time marked the streamer's biggest original series debut to date when it premiered in 2021, and ahead of season 3 it had drawn more than 100 million viewers worldwide.
Per Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the cancellation, viewership for season 3 was still solid but the show slipped out of Nielsen's Top 10 Originals chart quicker than its predecessors, and the decision to cancel ultimately came down to the show's hefty price tag.
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In the wake of last month's season 3 finale, EW asked showrunner Rafe Judkins about a potential fourth season. "I can say that we've put a lot of pieces in place at the end of season 3 to tell some of the most iconic stories from book six, which is a really important book in the series," he said, "and some of the biggest moments from book five as well, so we're in the area of the books right now that is some of the most exciting."
He continued, "One of the great things about Wheel of Time the book series is that it is sort of a reverse Game of Thrones. It gets better as it goes on. And so that's what television is always about, is getting better as you go… The great shows of television past really hit their stride in season 3 and 4, and I think that's what this show in this series has the potential to do, and just keep getting better from here. So we're all very eager to continue this story and finish it."
