{"id":241890,"date":"2026-05-22T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/spartacus-house-of-ashur-canceled-by-starz-after-one-season\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:39:53","slug":"spartacus-house-of-ashur-canceled-by-starz-after-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/spartacus-house-of-ashur-canceled-by-starz-after-one-season\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spartacus: House Of Ashur\u2019 Canceled By Starz After One Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE: Steven D. Knight\u2019s big return to the \u201cSpartacus\u201d Universe with &#8216;Spartacus: House of Ashur&#8217; will not go beyond its freshman season at Starz, which has canceled the gladiator drama. Lionsgate Television, which produces the series, is currently shopping it to other\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f04gy04J9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/f04gy04J9Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2057928344428306631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Spartacus: House of Ashur\u2019 has been cancelled after one season. LionsGate is shopping it to other networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spartacus sequel could not match the buzz and viewership levels of the original 2010 series. Additionally, the makeup of the follow-up\u2019s audience did not quite align with Starz\u2019s focus on women and underrepresented audiences, sources said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2057928344428306631?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132378926.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Steven D. Knight\u2019s big return to the \u201cSpartacus\u201d Universe with &#8216;Spartacus: House of Ashur&#8217; will not go beyond its freshman season at Starz, which has canceled the gladiator drama. Lionsgate Television, which produces the series, is currently shopping it to other\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/f04gy04J9Q \u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) May 22, 2026 \u2018Spartacus: House of Ashur\u2019 has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}