{"id":186907,"date":"2025-08-30T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186907\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:02:10","slug":"motorheads-canceled-by-amazon-after-1-season-being-shopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186907\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Motorheads’ Canceled By Amazon After 1 Season, Being Shopped"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Prime Video<\/a> has opted not to renew YA drama Motorheads<\/a> for a second season, Deadline has learned. The decision comes more than three months after the 10-episode first season dropped May 20.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut there is hope for the series\u2019 passionate fans who have been campaigning for a renewal on X and TikTok. The producers \u2014 with Amazon<\/a>\u2018s permission \u2014 have taken out the show, created by John A. Norris, and already started conversations with potential new homes, sources said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe set out to make a show with no agenda and a lot of heart, to give families something they can watch together,\u201d series executive producer Jason Seagraves said in a statement to Deadline. \u201cWhile Johnny and I are disappointed Motorheads won\u2019t be continuing at Prime Video, we couldn\u2019t be more proud of what the team created. Despite going into release with impossibly low audience awareness, our passionate and vocal fan base led the charge and made the series impossible to ignore. Their enthusiasm has energized us and we\u2019re optimistic we\u2019ll find a home that believes in and supports the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMotorheads, starring Michael Cimino<\/a>, Melissa Collazo, Ryan Phillippe<\/a> and Nathalie Kelley, has shown staying power, remaining in Prime Video\u2019s daily Top 10 shows in the U.S. until this day, reentering the Top 5 yesterday and currently at No. 7. It has been well reviewed (78% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes), and those who have sampled it, have stuck with it, which is very important to streamers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat I\u2019ve been excited to see on that show in particular is we\u2019ve got such great completion rates,\u201d Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 head of TV Vernon Sanders told Deadline last month<\/a>. \u201cSo folks who start that show tend to watch it all the way through, and that\u2019s a great sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFurther supporting the claim that viewers who watched Motorheads did indeed like it, the show\u2019s audience Rotten Tomatoes score is a high 95%.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose viewers\u2019 overall numbers may not have been high enough for Prime Video, leading to the cancellation. Motorheads never made Nielsen\u2019s weekly Top 10 streaming rankings. On Luminate\u2019s Top 50 weekly rankers for streaming series, it charted for five weeks, staying largely in the 40s and peaking at No. 19 with 3.29M hours viewed the week of May 23. The show did hold the No. 1 spot on Prime Video globally early on per FlixPatrol, which tracks the streamer\u2019s top performers daily.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Motorheads title \u2014 which does not scream teen romances set against the backdrop of street racing \u2014 could\u2019ve been a barrier for female viewers who flocked in large numbers to Prime Video\u2019s similarly themed Culpa film franchise. (Proving the two\u2019s shared DNA, I hear Motorheads did well in Brazil where the Culpa films have been very popular.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the show\u2019s official logline puts it, Motorheads\u00a0is about first love, first heartbreak and turning the key in your very first car. It centers on teen twins Zac (Cimino) and Caitlyn (Collazo) who, along with their mother Samantha (Kelley), move to Pennsylvania to live with their uncle Logan (Phillippe), a former NASCAR driver-tuned-auto body shop owner.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the same July interview, Sanders spoke about Amazon\u2019s bet on Motorheads.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were just really wowed by the idea of the show. We were launching NASCAR this summer, and so having a show that actually spoke to fans of that genre [was an asset]. It was really just the characters. We feel like we lucked out getting into business with those showrunners as well,\u201d he said. \u201cMotorheads\u00a0has just really sort of resonated with us and struck us \u2026 We\u2019re quite proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Motorheads\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tZac (Michael Cimino), Alicia (Mia Healey)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tMotorheads is part of Amazon\u2019s expansion in the YA space, capitalizing on the success of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Maxton Hall and the Culpa movies. Two other new YA series that launched in the past couple of months, Overcompensating and We Were Liars, look promising for renewal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnlike TSITP, Maxton Hall, Culpa and We Were Liars, Motorheads is an original idea and not based on bestselling books, which likely contributed to the low awareness leading to the premiere. It also did not get the same level of promotion as some of the other high-profile titles did.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a result, the show was a slow build in finding an audience \u2014 which could explain why it is sticking around in the U.S. Top 10 as new viewers discover it. A wholesome coming-of-age series that the whole family can watch together, Motorheads has found a receptive audience in the middle of the country.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom writer-showrunner Norris,\u00a0Motorheads, whose cast features four Latino leads, also stars Uriah Shelton, Drake Rodger, Johnna Dias-Watson, Audrey Gerthoffer, Nicolas Cantu, Josh Macqueen and Mia Healey. Matt Lanter and Sophia Esperanza recur.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLogan (Ryan Phillippe)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series has some unfinished business as the Season 1 finale ended with two major cliffhangers. A night street race between Zac (Cimino) and Harris (Macqueen) ended in a horrific crash as Harris\u2019s car flipped multiple times and burst into flames, leaving his fate up in the air. And Caitlyn (Collazo) received a mysterious call from Spider Lake, Mich., possibly from her and Zac\u2019s father whom they had never met. It was part of the series\u2019 underlying mystery that will now potentially be left unsolved.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is rare for streamers to allow their original series \u2014 especially when they are produced by the platform\u2019s internal studio \u2014 to look for new homes post-cancellation, making Motorheads a rare exception. <\/p>\n

\n\tFrom Amazon MGM Studios, Motorheads is executive produced by Norris, Seagraves, Jake Fuller, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger and Jax Media. Neil Burger directed the pilot, and Ryan Zaragoza serves as co-executive producer and producing director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has opted not to renew YA drama Motorheads for a second season, Deadline has learned.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2431,171,104735,104736,8266,104737,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-186907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-michael-cimino","11":"tag-motorheads","12":"tag-prime-video","13":"tag-ryan-phillippe","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115116909956221975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}