Prime Video has canceled Spider-Man Noir after one season and eight episodes, ending Nicolas Cage’s first-ever regular TV role before a second season could move ahead. The show had built a rare mix of awards attention and audience reach, but that was not enough to keep it alive.
Spider-Noir entered the first weekend of Emmy ceremonies with 11 nominations, a 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and a 90% popcornmeter vote. In its first six weeks, Nielsen said the series logged 2.6 billion viewing minutes, a scale that put it well beyond a typical one-season curiosity.
Nicolas Cage and the first TV run
Cage played a character described as “a seasoned, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life following a deeply personal tragedy, as the city’s one and only superhero.” For a star making a first regular television run, that gave Spider-Noir unusual weight inside Amazon’s lineup, especially because it was the first Marvel-related series to come out of Amazon’s pact with Sony Pictures TV.
Spider-Noir also arrived with built-in franchise machinery behind it. It was adapted for television by Oren Uziel, with Steve Lightfoot as showrunner and executive producer, and it drew from Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man Noir, a character inside Sony’s oversight of more than 900 Marvel characters tied to the Spider-Man franchise.
Eight episodes, then silence
The cancellation leaves eight episodes as the full run, with no Season 2. That is the hard business reality for a series that had enough review support and viewing volume to look safer than most new genre shows, and it makes Spider-Noir a more notable cut than a routine low-performer.
Amazon and Sony Pictures TV already had a second series in development and were expected to announce it soon, which made the timing sharper. Silk: Spider Society had been the first project originally greenlit under the larger live-action plan and was later scrapped, so the partnership has already seen one title disappear before launch and another end after a single season.
What the cancellation signals
The clean read is that performance alone did not buy Spider-Noir a second year. Even with 2.6 billion viewing minutes, 11 Emmy nominations, and a strong Rotten Tomatoes score, the show did not translate into enough confidence for an extension, which is a reminder that platform strategy can outweigh audience momentum.
For Cage, the immediate result is simple: his first regular TV lead ends at eight episodes, and the next move in the Amazon and Sony Pictures TV partnership becomes the story to watch. If that second series does surface, it will now arrive under more scrutiny than Spider-Noir did.
