Nicolas Cage headlines the 2026 Emmy winners conversation for Spider-Noir, but Prime Video has opted not to move ahead with a second season. The cancellation lands after 11 Emmy Award nominations, a rare awards total for a series that is already being treated as finished business.
Cage made his first TV role count as Ben Reilly, the seasoned, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York. For a platform decision, that kind of lead performance usually buys more runway; here, the numbers did the opposite.
11 Emmy Award nominations
Spider-Noir collected 11 Emmy Award nominations in 2026, which should have strengthened its case for continuation. Instead, Prime Video chose not to proceed, ending the series after one season even as awards voters put it in the year-end conversation.
The show’s figures were not weak. It posted a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, a combination that usually signals enough approval to justify another run.
Nielsen and Rotten Tomatoes
Spider-Noir also reached No. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. Top 10 for original series in its first week and drew 851 million minutes viewed in that same week. Over its first six weeks, it generated 2.6 billion viewing minutes in the U.S., then dropped off Prime Video’s daily Top 10 rankings relatively quickly.
That pattern points to a show that opened hard, then cooled. For streaming businesses, that is often the line that matters most: not just how many viewers arrive, but how long they stay and whether the title keeps pulling attention beyond the launch window.
Amazon MGM Studios deal
Spider-Noir was the second series ordered and the first to reach the screen under the multi-title deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television. The first series under that arrangement, Spider-Man spinoff Silk, was ultimately scrapped, while the collaboration continues with development on multiple projects.
Season 1 was largely complete as a story, with only a few loose threads left behind. Cage’s TV debut now stands as a one-season run that scored 11 Emmy Award nominations, strong Rotten Tomatoes scores, and heavy early Nielsen traffic — enough to look successful on paper, but not enough to guarantee more TV.
