Amazon Prime Video has canceled ‘The Wheel of Time’ after three seasons of its fantasy series citing high production costs and weakened audience engagement as contributing factors. While the fantasy series had a strong following and some popularity, the series third season was not producing enough audiences to warrant the large production costs.
The Wheel of Time was adapted from Robert Jordan’s popular series of novels and premiered in 2021. The Wheel of Time is a Prime Video show, with Rosamund Pike as Moiraine Damodred and displayed an expansive reach and cast. Much praise was heaped on the series in its first season but the viewership was down significantly in the third season that aired in March 2025. The series slipped off Nielsen’s Top 10 Originals list within only three weeks of its Season 3 debut.
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Although Season 3 received critical praise, it scored 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and reached top charts in several countries. Prime Video and Sony TV did have extensive conversations around a fourth season but ultimately decided not to proceed.
Showrunner Rafe Judkins already had plans to adapt major events from later novels in the series, indicating that he and the team were eager to dig into the deeper story arcs in the original books, the cancellation of ‘The Wheel of Time,’ left a group of fans with an incomplete journey and a lost feeling.
All three seasons of The Wheel of Time are still available on Prime Video. The cancellation of the series is apparently part of a larger conversation among high budget fantasy series in keeping viewership consistent with production costs on the rise.
