SyFy Cancels The Expanse, Amazon Picks Up

Dave said:
In the UK it gets personally delivered by Jeremy Clarkson in the advert. It looks like incredibly dangerous drone flying. Are you sure in arrives on time?
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If Mister Clarkson's drone doesn't have a V8 then the answer is no. It might come in a bit late. And through the cap in the window instead of it somehow landing on your doorstep.
 
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What with Amazon producing a Lord of the Rings series and Iain Banks’ Culture show, I am going to have to look at joining. I buy the digital versions of the Expanse, but I’ve been PVRing, and have all the TVs in the house on the televised channel for support for the program.
 
I've been watching this. It's quite well done (especially the visuals, Space vehicles, etc.) There are 3 whole seasons!
 
It's great to see that Amazon have picked up the show for Season 4 (and beyond)! I think there are still going to be a number of things that need to be sorted like:
  • Will Netflix give up the international rights?
    • If not then how does this work, available in US on Amazon for first 6 months then internationally on Netflix thereafter?
    • And who pays whom? I'm guessing Amazon will want to buy out international rights from Netflix and I'm guessing that deal isn't done yet.
  • Will this be added to Prime or just dropped into the Amazon Video section (meaning pay for it)? Doesn't bother me either way as long as I can view from outside the US
  • Will episodes air weekly from Season 4 onwards or will they drop the lot at once? Certainly would prefer the weekly reveal (and not just this but with all shows), it gives people time to digest and discuss episodes before the new one comes out...
  • Can it PLEASE get some advertising! Now that Amazon are committed to this, they're going to want to market the hell out of it, especially after the reaction from fans, which has been awesome!
  • There's also talk of merchandise coming with this change, which obvs Amazon is going to be great at selling. But what they make and sell is still probably to be decided...
So overall I am overjoyed to see that the work will continue, I just hope I can get hold of a legal way of watching it!
 
Gnrevolution said:
There's also talk of merchandise coming with this change, which obvs Amazon is going to be great at selling. But what they make and sell is still probably to be decided...
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I'd like to see model kits on the space vessels. The protomolecule biomechanical space octopus would be a challenging and interesting thing to build. I also assume some of Avasarala's costumes and jewellery is going to be a big thing. I'm not so sure about the action figures as I've never seen that market getting big. Maybe that is just me. Maybe AMZ will even produce and publish Alex's Space Cooking Book for the upcoming interplanetary travellers. Who knows what will happen.
 
ctg said:
I'd like to see model kits on the space vessels. The protomolecule biomechanical space octopus would be a challenging and interesting thing to build. I also assume some of Avasarala's costumes and jewellery is going to be a big thing. I'm not so sure about the action figures as I've never seen that market getting big. Maybe that is just me. Maybe AMZ will even produce and publish Alex's Space Cooking Book for the upcoming interplanetary travellers. Who knows what will happen.
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There's already a Rocinante model out there. And for the bargain price of $170 US:giggle:

The Rocinante from "The Expanse" by Fantastic Plastic
 
I was genuinely disorientated watching the last episode until I realised that must be the end of book 2 and start of book 3. There was quite a jump forwards, and lots of new characters and the Ring.

Also great the Amazon is picking it up. I would join Amazon for this (I was not interested in The Grand Tour or anything else.)
 
Amazon also has Mr Robot here in the UK which I am also an avid fan of, but yeah other than that I don't watch much on Prime at the moment, would definitely watch this though!
 

io9: The third season had events from both book two and book three guiding its plot. Will there be any of book five in season four?

Shankar: Without giving too many spoilers [laughs]—there’s so much that is juicy from this point on. One of the great frustrations when we thought we’d been canceled at the end of season three was that the end of the third book is really the end of the first big movement of the series. Which is, after spending a lot of time inside the solar system, this gigantically important thing happens that opens up an entirely new frontier for humanity. And that starts happening in book four.

Yeah, the book itself is completely restricted to the storyline on this new planet, Ilus, and a huge portion of the new season [is based on] book four. But we’re also creating material [that takes place] back in the solar system, that reflects on the events on Ilus. It’s stuff that isn’t in the book, but it actually bridges books four and five going forward. There’s a whole bunch of things happening that are sort of referred to, obliquely, in the text, but we’re bringing them to life and actually playing storylines back in the solar system simultaneously.
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https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-expanse-showrunner-talks-about-the-move-to-amazon-a-1827815805
 
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