‘Spider-Noir’ Canceled by Prime Video After One Season
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Amazon's Prime Video has cancelled "Spider-Noir" after a single eight-episode season, ending the Nicolas Cage-led drama despite strong critical acclaim and a leading 11 Emmy nominations for a Prime Video series this year. The decision is notable because the show holds a 92% critics' score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it an unusually well-reviewed casualty, and it marked Cage's first regular television role. "Spider-Noir" was also significant as the first series to emerge from Amazon's partnership with Sony Pictures TV to adapt characters from Sony's Marvel universe, following the earlier scrapping of a planned series called "Silk: Spider Society."
Based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir, the show was set in 1930s Depression-era New York and starred Cage as private investigator Ben Reilly, alongside Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li and Brendan Gleeson. It premiered on MGM+ in May before moving to Prime Video, racking up 2.6 billion streaming minutes in its first six weeks, and its Emmy nods span categories including production design, cinematography and stunt work. Sony says a second series from its Amazon partnership, drawing on its pool of over 900 Spider-Man-related characters, is already in development and due to be announced soon.
- "Spider-Noir" cancelled by Prime Video after just one season
- Show had 92% Rotten Tomatoes score and 11 Emmy nods
- Sony's next Amazon Marvel series is already in development
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Amazon's Prime Video has ended "Spider-Noir" after just one season, even though the show was widely praised and picked up 11 Emmy nominations, more than any other Prime Video series this year. It starred Nicolas Cage, in his first regular TV role, as a private detective in a 1930s New York setting, based on a Marvel Comics character called Spider-Man Noir. The show also had strong scores from critics and viewers alike, which makes its cancellation unusual by industry standards.
The series mattered beyond its own storyline because it was the first result of a partnership between Amazon and Sony Pictures Television, set up to bring characters from Sony's Marvel-related universe to the screen. That partnership had already seen one earlier project, "Silk: Spider Society," dropped before release, so "Spider-Noir" was seen as an important early test of the arrangement.
Sony has a large pool of Spider-Man-related characters it can draw on for future shows, and has said another series from the Amazon partnership is already being developed. This background helps explain why the cancellation is being discussed not just as the end of one show, but as a signal about how that wider Sony-Amazon collaboration is going.
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