Prime Video has ended Spider-Noir after one season, cutting short Nicolas Cage’s first TV role after the series reached the screen on May 25 on MGM+ and on May 27 globally on Prime Video. The decision lands even after the show drew a 92% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, a 90% audience score, and 11 Emmy Award nominations.
Spider-Noir opened at No. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. Top 10 for original series in its first week and logged 851 million minutes viewed, then reached 2.6 billion viewing minutes in the U.S. over its first six weeks. For a project built around one of Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters IP, that is a sharp reminder that reach, not just reaction, decides what gets another season.
Nicolas Cage on Prime Video
Cage played Ben Reilly in the series, which also featured Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson. It was his first TV role, and the show gave Prime Video a recognizable lead while tying the launch to the Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television deal that put Spider-Noir on the board as the second series ordered.
The route mattered too. Shows in this collaboration first debuted on MGM+ before moving to Prime Video, and Spider-Noir became the first series from the deal to make it to the screen. That made its cancellation more than a single-title call; it reset expectations for how the Amazon and Sony TV partnership would translate development into ongoing series.
92% Rotten Tomatoes, still cut
The 92% critics score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes show Spider-Noir landed well with both reviewers and viewers, and the 11 Emmy Award nominations gave it a rare awards-season profile for a new series. That combination would normally buy room, but Prime Video still chose not to proceed, which points to a harder business test behind the scenes.
One likely reading is simple: strong scores and awards attention can help a title’s case, but they do not override the cost of keeping a visually ambitious series alive if the platform decides the audience size does not justify another run. Spider-Noir even filmed both color and black and white versions, which suggests the production was built with extra overhead rather than a stripped-down model.
Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures
The Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television collaboration is not stopping with Spider-Noir. It will continue developing multiple projects, and one is nearing a series order, which keeps the partnership active even as this title stops at one season.
For viewers, the practical result is plain: Spider-Noir is a finished series, not a bridge to a second chapter. The most useful next read is how the deal keeps moving after one cancellation, because the platform has already shown that even 2.6 billion U.S. viewing minutes is not enough on its own to guarantee a return.
