‘Spider-Noir’ Canceled After One Season As Prime Video Eyes Greenlight For Another Series Based On Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters
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Prime Video has confirmed it will not renew Nicolas Cage's superhero drama Spider-Noir for a second season, even though the show performed strongly with critics and audiences. It was the first series to reach screens under Amazon MGM Studios' multi-title deal with Sony Pictures Television covering Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters, following the earlier scrapping of related spin-off Silk. Despite the cancellation, the wider Amazon-Sony partnership is continuing, with another project from the deal reportedly nearing a series order, though its concept remains undisclosed.
Spider-Noir scored 92% with critics and 90% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes and picked up 11 Emmy nominations, the most of any Prime Video show in 2026. It launched at number two on Nielsen's US Top 10 with 851 million minutes viewed in its first week, reaching 2.6 billion minutes over six weeks, but fell out of the daily Top 10 faster than other recent Prime Video hits. Its costly production, which filmed both colour and black-and-white versions, likely weighed against a modest viewership tail in the renewal decision. Season one wrapped up most of its story, led by Cage as Ben Reilly with a cast including Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li and Brendan Gleeson, under showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot.
- Prime Video cancels Spider-Noir after one season despite strong reviews
- Amazon-Sony Marvel character deal continues with new project nearing greenlight
- High production costs likely outweighed the show's solid but fading ratings
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Prime Video, Amazon's streaming service, has been building a slate of superhero shows with Sony Pictures Television based on characters from Sony's Spider-Man universe, separate from the main Marvel Cinematic Universe run by Disney. Spider-Noir, starring Nicolas Cage, was the first series to launch under this arrangement, presenting a darker, partly black-and-white take on a Spider-Man character.
Streaming services regularly decide whether to renew or cancel shows after a single season, weighing factors such as viewership, critical reception, awards recognition and production costs against the price of making more episodes. This decision matters because it affects the future shape of Sony and Amazon's shared plans for further series drawing on the same pool of characters, and because it follows an earlier decision to cancel another related show, Silk, raising questions about the partnership's direction.
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Prime Video has decided against renewing Spider-Noir for a second run, bringing an early end to the Nicolas Cage-led drama after a single eight-episode season. The series held particular significance as the first show to reach screens under a wide-ranging development deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, which draws on characters from Sony's Marvel-licensed universe; an earlier project born of the same partnership, the Spider-Man spin-off Silk, never made it past development. Despite the cancellation, reports indicate Amazon and Sony intend to keep working together, with at least one further project from the slate reportedly closing in on a formal series order, though details of its subject matter have not been disclosed.
The decision to cancel comes despite Spider-Noir being one of the best-reviewed titles in Prime Video's recent history. The show drew strong marks from both critics and audiences on review-aggregation sites and picked up eleven Emmy nominations, reportedly more than any other Prime Video series this year and, by some counts, the most of any Marvel-related television production aside from WandaVision. Cage's performance as the world-weary investigator-turned-vigilante was widely seen as a coup for the platform, marking his first time as a regular cast member on a television series after previously lending his voice to a version of the same character in an animated Spider-Man film.
Viewership figures told a more mixed story. The series opened respectably, reaching the runner-up spot on a major streaming-ratings chart for original programming in its debut week and accumulating billions of minutes watched across its first six weeks on air after launching in late May, first on Amazon's linear MGM+ channel before moving to Prime Video. However, its audience did not sustain the momentum shown by some other recent Prime Video hits, sliding out of daily viewership rankings sooner than comparable titles. That relatively modest staying power, combined with the considerable expense of producing a series shot in both colour and black-and-white to achieve its period noir look, appears to have weighed heavily on the renewal calculus, with the balance between outlay and audience return typically being the deciding factor for streaming services.
Set in Depression-era New York, Spider-Noir centred on Ben Reilly, an ageing private detective who had walked away from his secret life as the city's masked protector following a personal tragedy, only to be drawn back into costumed heroics by a case he could not ignore. Cage headed a cast that included Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston and Brendan Gleeson, battling a rogues' gallery of comic-book villains. The project was adapted for television by Oren Uziel, who shared showrunning duties with Steve Lightfoot, working alongside Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal — the team behind the animated Spider-Verse films — with Lord and Miller also serving as executive producers through their production company.
Where outlets differ
The trade-press account places heavier emphasis on the business rationale for cancellation: it details the specific Rotten Tomatoes scores (92% critics/90% audience), precise Nielsen viewing-minute figures, the show's chart position, its comparison to other Prime Video titles' longevity, and explicitly links the costly dual colour/black-and-white production to the cost-versus-performance renewal logic. It also uniquely reports that another project from the Amazon-Sony slate is nearing a series order and references the earlier scrapped Silk series as context for the partnership.
The entertainment/fan-focused account frames the story more around fan and genre reaction, situating Spider-Noir within Prime Video's broader crime-thriller slate (Reacher, Cross, Bosch) and stressing the 'shock' of the cancellation given the show's Emmy haul (calling it the most-nominated Marvel series bar WandaVision) and its viewing figures, without breaking down critic/audience scores separately or discussing production costs. It also gives more attention to supporting cast details, such as Lamorne Morris's prior role, and does not mention the wider status of the Amazon-Sony deal or any upcoming greenlight.
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