James R | On 19, Aug 2017

The Expanse Season 2 will premiere on Netflix UK this September.

The sci-fi series, from SyFy, is based on the New York Times bestselling book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and unfolds across a colonised solar system 200 years in the future, when two strangers become unwittingly swept up in a vast conspiracy.

Oscar-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) are showrunners of the project, alongside Naren Shankar (CSI, Farscape).

The show airs on SyFy in the US and was snapped up last year as a Netflix exclusive in 2016, with Season 1 arriving on the site in November.

“Each episode ends on a stonking cliffhanger that’ll have you clicking onto the next instalment,” we wrote in our review praising the series.

“The Expanse is a gorgeous, thrilling, emotional series that has quite simply raised the bar for science fiction on television,” comments Chris McCumber, President, Entertainment Networks for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. “We, along with the fans, are looking forward to continuing the journey with our partners at Alcon Television Group and the series’ brilliant cast and crew.”

While Season 2 was expected to follow its US broadcast earlier this year, though, fans on British soil have been kept waiting, with each month failing to see any word from Netflix on when the programme would return. Now, though, the streaming giant has finally confirmed that all episodes of Season 2 will premiere on 8th September. Even better news? It has already been renewed for a third season.

Here’s a trailer:

The stars are better off without us. #TheExpanse Season 2 arrives September 8th. pic.twitter.com/tlpYrliQzl

— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) August 19, 2017

 

The Expanse renewed for Season 3

21st March 2017

The Expanse has been renewed for a third season.

The sci-fi series, from SyFy, is based on the New York Times bestselling book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and unfolds across a colonised solar system 200 years in the future, when two strangers become unwittingly swept up in a vast conspiracy.

Oscar-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) are showrunners of the project, alongside Naren Shankar (CSI, Farscape).

The show, which airs on SyFy in the US, was snapped up last year as a Netflix exclusive in 2016, with Season 1 arriving on the site in November.

Season 3 will run for 18 episodes, premiering in 2018. The news arrives as we wait for Season 2 in the UK. At present, there is no confirmed release date for the show’s second run on Netflix, although it is currently airing on SyFy in the UK, so it is likely to land shortly after its finale on 19th April. Watch this space for news as soon as we get it.

 

Netflix snaps up global streaming rights to Syfy’s The Expanse

11th October 2016

Netflix has snapped up the global streaming rights to Syfy’s The Expanse.

The deal with Legendary Global Television Distribution, which is handling international sales for the programme, will see the show premiere on Netflix everywhere outside of the US, Canada and New Zealand.

The 10-episode space drama, based on the international best-selling book series of the same name, was first broadcast in the US in November 2015, with a second season already commissioned for January 2017. The show’s first season will arrive on Netflix on Friday 3rd November, with the second run to follow alongside Syfy’s broadcast next year.

The Expanse is set 200 years in the future, after mankind has colonised the solar system. A hardened detective (Thomas Jane) and a rogue ship’s captain (Steven Strait) come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

The cast also includes Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Saddam) as Chrisjen Avasarala, a member of a political family dynasty, and Dominique Tipper (Vampire Academy), Cas Anvar (Olympus), Wes Chatham (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Florence Faivre (Alpha House), with guest stars ranging from Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad) and Paulo Costanzo (Royal Pains) to Jay Hernandez (Nashville).
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The series is executive produced by Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Sharon Hall, Naren Shankar, Sean Daniel and Jason Brown, as well as Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who also developed the show.

The Expanse Season 1 to 3 is available to watch online on Amazon Prime Video as part of a Prime membership or a £5.99 monthly subscription from 8th February 2019.

 

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