Dark Matter And Killjoys Renewed For Season Two
Both shows will be back on Syfy next year
Syfy and SPACE are bringing back Friday night’s space adventure duo Killjoys and Dark Matter.
The U.S. and Canadian cable networks announced today that both series have been renewed for second seasons, to air next year.
They’ll both come back with the same size episode orders in 2016 — 10 for Killjoys and 13 episodes for Dark Matter.
Both shows did decently in Friday night viewing, and predictably spiked with DVR-delayed and digital viewings. Killjoys averaged a 0.23 rating in the 18 to 49 demographic and 955,000 viewers for Syfy, rising to 0.41 and 1.455 million in Live + 3 numbers, according to Variety.
Dark Matter averaged a 0.27 rating in the demo and 1.023 million live viewers, rising to a 0.45 and a healthy 1.754 million viewers.
SPACE said that Killjoys was its highest-rated original series of all time, averaging nearly 450,000 viewers.
From Lost Girl producer Michelle Lovretta, Killjoys chronicles the adventures of three outer space bounty hunters who find themselves caught up in a social and political upheaval in the Quad — one that is much bigger than all of them. As the first season drew to a close, D’avin has found himself a prisoner in the RAC’s mysterious “Red 17” complex.
From Stargate producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, Dark Matter follows a crew of wanted criminals who awakened from stasis with no memories of who they are. As their identities unfolded over the course of the first season, viewers were treated to plenty of twists and turns — including the final revelation of who erased their memories and which one of their own has betrayed them to the Galactic Alliance.
The full casts of both shows should return for Season Two, where viewers can expect more world-building as their respective universes expand.
Mallozzi and crew have a five-year plan for the story of Dark Matter. After the awesome first season, I very much hope that this series is able to tell its full story before coming to a close at the end of that period.
Y’know, SGU was meant to be a five-year story as well. Hopefully history won’t repeat itself and leave us with only two seasons and a highly inconclusive ending. I really want to see this one through. 😀
Great to hear the Dark Matter has been renewed, but still want Stargate Universe back to complete the 5 year story arc. 2 years gone are done, 3 seasons to go and when it comes back through another channel or whatever advertise it properly and air it at the same times.
Dark Matter is an amazing show. Glad to see “SyFy” is giving real science fiction a chance.
Great news! Nice to SyFy doing SciFi.
I haver really enjoyed the first seasons of both these shows.
Who cares. Bring back SGU! Finish that amazingly wonderful story.
With SyFy’s history of not running any scripted shows past 5 years, planning for that time frame makes sense.
“SPACE said that Killjoys was its highest-rated original series of all time”
I hope that means something good for killjoys, I really liked the first season.
Too bad it didn’t get more viewers from the start on syfy, I wonder if people weren’t that interested in the premise or not enough marketing.
These new shows are good, but are not near as great as our favorites SG1 Franchise. The actors are fine. Really good. But, I don’t see a roadmap for the shows… in any way….
Universe was not as good as dark matter in my opinion so i belive dark matter will have no problem to fulfill the 5 seasons plan. Even though i would be glad to see star gate coming back in any form : new series, universe, the new movie (though it would be better to continue with the sg1,atlantis,universe world than creating a new one). is there any chance they will bring the plan movie which should have came after atlantis?