Today at the Television Critics Association, Amazon announced that it has renewed its science fiction series The Expanse for a fifth season.
Last year, Amazon picked up the series for a fourth season after the Syfy Channel canceled it, and it announced at San Diego Comic-Con that the new season would debut in December 2019. Along with the news, Amazon released a new teaser for the upcoming fourth season.
Set centuries in the future, the series is based on a book …
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Amazon has finally revealed when the next season of The Expanse will begin streaming: December 13th, 2019. The company made the announcement today at San Diego Comic-Con, releasing a trailer and a longer clip of the upcoming fourth season.
Based on the science fiction book series by James S.A. Corey, The Expanse is set several centuries in the future, where humanity has colonized the solar system and broken into three major factions: Earth, Mars, and the Belters, an alliance of settlements in the asteroid belt and outer planets. The bulk of the series follows the crew of a spaceship called the Rocinante as they find themselves in the midst …
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Over the course of eight books, The Expanse has felt a bit like one of those videos that zooms out from Earth into the larger universe. Part of the appeal of Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War was that they were a space opera set in our local neighborhood, dealing with issues that are relevant to the world we now live in: war, racism, justice, all accompanied by power armored-marines, spaceship battles, and a menacing alien threat.
But as the series progressed, authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (collectively known as James S.A. Corey) have, well, expanded their scope to more cosmic issues. Abaddon's Gate opened up the cosmos to humanity b …
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Long before it was a television show and prior to the book series by James S.A. Corey, The Expanse was originally a game. Now, the futuristic sci-fi world is headed back to its roots, thanks to Green Ronin Publishing, which launched a new role-playing game adaptation of The Expanse through Kickstarter earlier this week.
In 2001, series creator and co-author Ty Franck began to develop the world that would become The Expanse. Inspired by books like Alfred Bester's novel The Stars My Destination, he had begun writing the early sketches of the world for a possible game, and when a Chinese internet company was interested in ideas for an exclusiv …
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The Expanse's third season ended on June 27th on the Syfy Channel. The final episode, "Abaddon's Gate," is the last installment of the show shot for Syfy. Over the course of The Expanse's latest arc, an expedition involving every faction of Earth's solar system discovered the true nature of the protomolecule that's been the series's major mystery, and confirmed the dangers and potential gains it represents for humanity.
Spoilers ahead for the series, as well as some of the James S.A. Corey novels the show adapts.
Shortly after Syfy announced that it wasn't renewing the series for another season, The Expanse underwent a soft reboot with th …
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It's official: The Expanse has been saved. After the Syfy Channel canceled The Expanse earlier this month, Alcon Entertainment has confirmed that Amazon will pick up the show for a fourth season, after after outcry from the show's fans.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement at the International Space Development Conference: where he appeared next to members of the show's cast: "The Expanse is saved."
Alcon Entertainment Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson issued a statement, confirming that Amazon would be picking up the show: "We couldn't be more excited that The Expanse is going to continue on Amazo …
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Earlier this month, the Syfy channel canceled The Expanse, prompting fans to petition streaming services such as Amazon and Netflix to save the show. Amazon is reportedly interested in picking the series up for its fourth season, and after last night's episode "Delta-V," we really hope that it will.
Spoilers ahead for the TV and book series.
In the first two and a half seasons of the series, we're introduced to a solar system in the midst of a cold war between Earth, Mars, and the inhabitants of the Outer Planets. When an ice hauler is destroyed, it begins a domino effect that leads to war. Along the way, we learn that a shady corporation …
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Bad news for fans of The Expanse: Deadline is reporting that Syfy has not renewed the show for a fourth season. This might not be the end of the show, however: Alcon Television Group, the studio behind the series, plans to shop it around to other outlets.
In a statement to The Verge, President of Entertainment Networks for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Chris McCumber said that the decision not to renew the show "was an incredibly difficult decision," and thanked the cast, crew, and fans for bringing the series to television. Series co-author Daniel Abraham tells The Verge that "the entertainment industry is astoundingly complex," and tha …
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The Expanse kicked off its third season last month on Syfy, continuing the story of the crew of a spaceship in an inhabited solar system that's set centuries in the future. In its first two seasons, the series has established itself as one of the most politically relevant stories on TV right now, with the onset of a system-wide war always lingering on the horizon. Now, its third season is underway, and the war is on, bringing massive casualties, the very real possibility of mutually assured destruction, and a sobering view of where we could end up if we make the same mistakes.
Spoilers ahead for show and novels.
In the series, humans have …
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Tonight, Syfy will begin the third season of The Expanse, its science fiction series based on the book series by James S.A. Corey. The novels debuted in 2011, and the television adaptation, which followed in 2015, has become one of the most timely and politically relevant stories on television. Over the past two seasons, it's teased a coming war between the system's various nations, and how the crew of a stolen warship, The Rocinante, plays its own role in navigating the troubles.
The show returns tonight at 9 PM ET / 8PM CT, and it's worth checking out. Here's what you need to know to get caught up.
Warning: Spoilers for previous seasons …
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