Prime Video has ended The Wheel of Time after three seasons, closing the door on a fourth-season renewal for the fantasy drama based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling novels.
The series, led by Rosamund Pike as Moiraine Damodred, premiered in 2021 and quickly became one of the streamer’s signature genre plays. Season 3 debuted on March 13, 2025, continuing the story’s central conflict around the Dragon Reborn and the growing threat of the Dark One.
While Prime Video has not issued a detailed public postmortem, multiple outlets reporting on the decision cited a familiar streaming-era math problem: high production costs paired with weakening audience momentum.
The Verge described the cancellation as a cost-and-viewership call, and Entertainment Weekly reported that Season 3 fell out of Nielsen’s Top 10 Originals chart faster than earlier seasons—factors that ultimately made renewal harder to justify.
The move lands despite the show’s strong early reach. Ahead of Season 3, Prime Video said the series had drawn more than 100 million viewers worldwide and represented the streamer’s biggest original series debut at launch, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Showrunner Rafe Judkins later addressed the news in a public statement, saying he couldn’t point to a single clear reason for the cancellation, while emphasising the scale of the audience the show achieved across its run.
All three seasons remain available to stream on Prime Video, but the cancellation leaves the adaptation unfinished relative to the long-running book saga—fueling renewed calls from fans for another platform or format to continue the story
