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The purge of Jennifer Salke’s expensive follies continues at Amazon. As reported a few weeks ago, the streamer was looking very closely at all things Citadel.
The super-mega-budget spy thriller series debuted on Amazon Prime Video to mixed reviews and the viewign figures didn’t stay the course. A raft of spin-offs were somewhat prematurely announced as Amazon had clearly convinced themselves they had an unstoppable franchine on their hands.
The first season was, tonally, all over the place veering between a Roger Moore Bond outing and all the most serious bits of John Le Carre novel.
Now Amazon as their hands on Bond, they won’t want anything diluting the espionage thriller market too much, and Citadel was failing to deliver against its cost.
So now it is being pared back. The spin-offs are cancelled. Those that were already shot – Citadel: Honey Bunny and Citadel: Diana – will now end as single season, limited series. Nothing else outsided the main Citadel show will continue forward. Events of those two spin-ofs will instead be baked into the storyline of the main show.
The upcoming second season of the Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas-led main series will continue, witht he show expected to air next year.
Of course, Amazon are putting a spin on this. Amazon MGM Studios TV chief Vernon Sanders said in a statement:
“While these successful and widely enjoyed international chapters will not continue as individual series, Season 2 of Citadel will be our most exhilarating yet.
With high-stakes storytelling, new additions to our amazing cast and bold, cinematic ambition, the new season will deepen the emotional journeys of Nadia, Mason and Orlick against the relentless force that is Manticore.”
According to a press release, season 2 of Citadel is set just one month after the events of the first with Nadia and Mason are being hunted by Manticore agents around the world, and being foreced to team up with a group of unconventional spies when Manticore’s Paulo Braga threatens to unleash a cataclysmic piece of technology, built by Citadel’s own Bernard Orlick.
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