Nicholas Cage’s Spider-Noir cancelled despite 11 Emmy nominations

Amazon's Prime Video has cancelled "Spider-Noir" after a single season, ending Nicolas Cage's first-ever regular television role after just eight episodes.

The decision is a jarring one. The series heads into Emmy weekend as Prime Video's most-nominated program of the year, with 11 nods spanning production design, cinematography, sound and visual effects. It also holds a 92% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 90% audience rating, and racked up 2.6 billion viewing minutes in its first six weeks, per Nielsen.

Adapted by Oren Uziel from Marvel's Spider-Man Noir, the show cast Cage as Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck private investigator turned lone superhero in Great Depression-era 1930s New York — viewable in either colour or black and white. Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Jack Huston and Brendan Gleeson co-starred, with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal among the executive producers.

"Spider-Noir" was the first series released under Amazon's partnership with Sony Pictures Television to develop the "Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters," which spans more than 900 titles. An earlier planned entry, "Silk: Spider Society," was scrapped. A second series from the pact is already in development and expected to be announced soon.