- The Wheel of Time‘s solid hope that they’re going to return for a fourth season
- Amazon hasn’t renewed the excessive fantasy collection for one more installment but
- The Prime Video present’s best-rated season signifies that it needs to be, although
The Wheel of Time‘s solid aren’t certain if Amazon will proceed to weave its extremely dense supply materials right into a fourth season.
Speaking to TechRadar earlier than the present’s third season started airing in mid-March, Josha Stradowski and Daniel Henney revealed they hadn’t heard if the excessive fantasy collection can be renewed once more. It’s attainable, then, that The Wheel of Time‘s third season may mark the tip of the highway for Prime Video’s TV adaptation.
However, Stradowski and Henney, who play Rand al’Thor and Lan Mandragoran, are holding out hope for some excellent news as soon as the Amazon TV Original’s newest chapter ends. And, with season 3’s closing episode as a result of be launched this Thursday (April 17), there’s an opportunity {that a} season 4 announcement could possibly be made within the hours or days after its arrival on one of many world’s greatest streaming providers.
“We do not know a lot,” Henney instructed me once I requested if anybody had knowledgeable them concerning the present’s renewal. We’re simply hopeful and have all of our fingers crossed.
“Season three is one thing we’re extremely pleased with,” Henney continued. “Watching it again, I could not be happier with the way it turned out. I’m certain Josha will agree that that is The Wheel of Time we got down to make.”
“Yeah, we’re assured [that a fourth season will be greenlit],” Stradowski added.
“When I used to be studying the e-book collection, it wasn’t till e-book 4 [The Shadow Rising, which season three is based on] that I assumed ‘Wow, okay, now I perceive why so many copies have been offered’. I really feel like season three is the place we discovered our type, so we have all obtained our fingers firmly crossed.”
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It’s laborious to find out if top-of-the-line Prime Video reveals (in my opinion, anyway) will get a fourth outing.
For starters, Amazon hardly ever reveals official viewing figures for any of its new films or reveals. On the off-chance that it does, it is often to boast concerning the hundreds of thousands of people that tuned in to observe the premiere of a brand new TV Original or the debut of any of the brand new Prime Video films it develops in-house.
The greatest data we have now from a viewership perspective, then, is from third-party sources, resembling viewers engagement consultants Nielsen. Companies like this are our greatest guess at understanding how The Wheel of Time season 3 carried out, albeit with a few caveats.
Indeed, Nielsen’s weekly viewing figures solely take a challenge’s US viewers into consideration. Additionally, their information relies across the variety of minutes seen, which might considerably skew the figures when attempting to work out how many individuals really watched the present.
All of that stated, Nielsen hasn’t launched any numbers for season 3 but. The viewers aggregation agency releases figures one month behind the place we’re at within the calendar. For instance, the most recent weekly Top 10 data contains viewership information for the week working March 10 to 16. At the time of publication (April 14), that is round 30 days in the past.
With The Wheel of Time‘s third season not debuting till March 13, it will be a couple of extra days earlier than we learn the way effectively its three-episode premiere carried out. That’ll give a clearer image as as to whether a fourth season will probably be greenlit.
There is hope that Amazon’s TV retelling of Robert Jordan’s best-selling novels will get one other installment, although. Based on its Rotten Tomatoes rating, season 3 is the highest-rated entry but, with common audiences (82%) and critics (97%) loving what they’ve seen. Compared to season 2 (80% and 86%) and season 1 (61% and 81%), this season is by far the very best for the reason that present made its debut in August 2021.
I used to be equally effusive in my reward for this chapter, too. In my assessment of The Wheel of Time season 3, I referred to as it “a spellbinding return to type for Prime Video’s fantasy TV underdog”. Based on this season’s seven episodes so far, which I actually loved, I’d be gutted if it is canceled simply because it’s beginning to get actually attention-grabbing, too.
