Spider-Noir Is Cancelled, One Day Before Its Emmy Weekend

This is probably one of those news stories that personally pissed me off so much. On September 4, Spider-Noir was cancelled and won’t be returning for another season. The show, which premiered on MGM+ on May 25 and hit Prime Video days later, received 11 Emmy 

nominations, more than any other Prime Video show this year, and a great audience reception. It sits at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 90% audience score, and Nielsen clocked 2.6 billion viewing minutes in the first six weeks. Everybody loved Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly, as well as the storyline and the cinematography choices, including the fact that you could watch the whole thing in colour or in black and white.

However, all that positive response of millions of viewers around the world wasn’t enough for Prime Video. Amazon hasn’t actually given an official reason. What reporting there is points at the money: the first season reportedly cost somewhere around $400 million, and Deadline frames the call as the usual streaming arithmetic, cost against performance. 

The show opened big and then fell out of the daily Top 10 fairly quickly. So it did not fail. It was priced at a level where succeeding normally counts as failing.

Almost every response to Spider-Noir’s cancellation is negative

If you open Instagram right now and go through the comments of any popular channels posting about the news, you will see the frustration from people. And it isn’t just comment-section noise, that 90% audience score is people who actually finished it. 

Apparently, it’s rare when shows turn out to be this good that you crave for more episodes to get released as soon as possible. This feeling, in 2026, I had once I watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Silo S03, and Spider-Noir.

But now, it’s gone. As some comments I read on social media, which made a lot of sense to me, if a show has to eventually get cancelled, why do we even watch the pilot season until the follow-up season is announced already?

The one mercy is that season one told a mostly complete story. A few threads dangle, but you’re not left mid-sentence.

The timing is the worst part

The Creative Arts Emmys are on September 5 and 6. Amazon cancelled its most-nominated show of the year one day before that show walks into the ceremony. Spider-Noir may well win several. It will be the best-decorated cancelled show of the year.

And this is the second casualty of the same Amazon and Sony deal. Silk: Spider Society was scrapped before it even entered production. A third series is now reportedly close to a series order.

I guess that is the only way these big studios with their big budgets will start learning.