We’re Never Getting to the Last Battle on ‘Wheel of Time’

It’s a sad day for fans of Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, and an even sadder day for fans of that show who also loathe cliffhangers: it’s been cancelled. There’s no season four coming. The recently wrapped season three had yet to reach the Robert Jordan-adapted story’s much-teased Last Battle, so the fate of the world may forever be left hanging in the balance. This news comes from Deadline, which writes “the decision … followed lengthy deliberations, sources said. As is often the case in the current economic environment, the reasons were financial as the series is liked creatively by the streamer’s executives.” The trade notes that while ratings for season three were decent, they represented a dip from the show’s first two outings, and the “overall performance was not strong enough compared to the show’s cost for Prime Video to commit to another season … the streamer could not make it work after examining different scenarios and following discussions with lead studio Sony TV, sour ... Read full article.