The Mist season 2 renewal hopes: Should Spike bring the series back?
What we do think is useful tonight is giving you a clear picture of where the show is at the moment when it comes to some of the numbers. As of right now, the series is averaging just over a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographic, and to go along with that almost 470,000 viewers. If we are comparing this to many other top-level cable series, the numbers aren’t great. They don’t give us a ton of hope that the show is going to be coming back, but you also never say never with this sort of thing.
There are two factors that could very well play into the show’s hands when it comes to a renewal.
1. Expectations – Spike, despite dabbling here and there into limited series and the like, have not done all that much in terms of original scripted programming. They have The Shannara Chronicles season 2 coming, but that’s a show that it is taking over after the first year was at MTV. If they want to establish more of a scripted brand, they have to start somewhere and maybe they think that this is a pretty decent place for them to start. Having a reputation for canceling shows after one season is never great this early in the game.
2. A re-branding – Next year, Spike is going to be turned into The Paramount Network, which may be a brand more befitting scripted properties to go along with the network’s stable of reality shows. Maybe they would like to have The Mist as some sort of cornerstone for that in the early going. You can give the show another season, see if people discover it over the hiatus, and then determine the future from there.
Ultimately, we don’t think that there is much in the way of an immediate hurry one way or another to determine what to do with this show. Just take a look at the ratings when some of the live+7 data comes out, and then make a decision from there. We just hope that some executives act with loyalty to the viewers in mind, and also that the show at least produces enough of a profit to justify it coming back. We do understand in the end that TV is a business, and at a certain point there are people who are going to make business-minded decisions in the end. It’s hard to expect anything else after seeing so many other cancellations happen over the years.
Do you think that a The Mist season 2 renewal will happen? Be sure to share in the comments below, or vocalize some of your thoughts in the poll!
Meanwhile, head over to the link here in the event you do want some additional news when it comes to the show. (Photo: Spike.)
Michael Gallagher
September 2, 2017 @ 5:48 pm
Have not read the novella but plan to soon. Loved the movie, especially the darkish ending (reality sucks, deal with it). My kids and I have been enjoying the series immensely, and really hope it gets a second season to explore Arrowhead and the source of the Mist, plus more creatures from the Todash.
Vivian Oberon
August 26, 2017 @ 5:48 am
I wish Alex would;ve got killed instead. They should focus on the train and what was happening at the end for next season. Forget whiny kids and get on the govt conspiracy theories!
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August 25, 2017 @ 1:05 pm
What Mr. Schwarz, Spike Channel’s Senior Vice President, needs to do is cancel the series and restart it, but without the horrible representations of young and old people who believe in nature, animals, Athiestism, healing power of counselling, accepting others’ help & looking for information outside the mainstream and Capitalist media and different sexualities and identities are the evil and sick characters. Anotherwards either follow Mr. King’s story or the movie or just let someone else do that and turn ‘The Mist’ into a successful series, instead of protrayer of ugly hate.
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August 25, 2017 @ 12:52 pm
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I HATE The Mist Series Last Few Episodes Development of Characters & How It Interacts with Audiences’ World
Dear: Mr. Schwarz, Spike Channel’s Senior Vice President,
Right off the bat, I want to state that:
I am a diehard fan of Steven King, his stories (far too few of the best ones are not made into equally great movies and series), good-great series and movies,
Yet, I am frustrated lately with the awesome quality of Mr. King’s creations are being messed up (not my opinion, as the stories are written and some cases already made into movies- like The Mist, which I loved, are facts to support this statement into fact) for in my opinion reaching out to the wrong and small percentage of population (maybe, fans of the stories & Mr. King) of The USA. I could go into what Mr. King’s stories have the characters as verses the altercations to characters (when all is needed is to follow the original written stories). Just one quick example is The movie Dark Tower seriously destroys itself by making the gunslinger black, when the ‘40s black woman that is on the journey with him is supposed to be black and adjust to the gunslinger and the all the other male companions are white, especially the former drug using and trafficking companion that becomes her lover. Her (and their) ability to come together and even love each other and be in love with one of them, despite they are of a race that puts her in constant terror in her ‘40s life is huge to the story. She (and they) even feels okay with her calling them white boys in the novel; there is no way, with the gunslinger black to fix that.
In the series The Mist, I HATE that:
The older woman who believes in- animals and beings (that are not animals), the environment, nature over god, has needed counselling from a professional and believes in getting information out of the mainstream sources becomes a prophet (stupid) of sorts for the mist is nature cleaning out the evil in the town, we must give nature/the mist what it wants and we are need to get the accused rapist teenage boy.
The teenage gay boy who has a horrible father, putting marriage before her son mother, been treated horribly by town people, especially fellow classmates and thus, has need prescription drugs to deal with it, is a understandably weak enough to seek love through a fellow classmate that hates who he is, but I HATE the rest that he- turns out to be the one who raped his best friend (a female, understandable) to keep her love from going to her love interest, kills his ugly father and was prevented from killing the main character that has done nothing but try to get him back to his daughter (her best friend) and the boy’s best friend.
I would, maybe, not even HATE these two character developments, if they were among a group (Steven Kings’ huge theme) of older people who believe in- animals and beings (that are not animals), the environment, nature over god, has needed counselling from a professional and believes in getting information out of the mainstream sources and teenagers of different sexualities that have horrible home lives, best friends opposite genders and have sought the counselling help and prescriptions help from professionals.