Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2020, One Season Totalling 6 Episodes
Premiere: November 8, 2020
Network: Showtime
Starring: Fred Armisen, John C. Reilly, and Tim Heidecker, Thomas Mann
Series Website: www.sho.com/moonbase-8
Description: Set in the isolated desert of Winslow, Arizona at NASA’s Moon Base Simulator, MOONBASE 8 follows eager astronauts Skip (Armisen), Rook (Heidecker) and their leader Cap (Reilly) as they attempt to qualify for their first lunar mission. While working vigorously to complete their training, a series of unexpected circumstances forces the astronauts to question their own mental sanity, trust in each other and whether or not they’re cut out for space travel. Showtime
Season 1 Trailer:
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Status: Showtime scheduled this one outside of the Prime Time hours and it averaged only a 0.01 rating (one one-hundredth of a rating point) in same-day viewing for its first season. The premium cable channels also pay attention to digital and delayed viewing as well as encore runs, but it is unlikely this one made up much slack there. There was never an official cancellation announcement and Moonbase 8 is an independently funded series and likely does not cost the cable channel much, so there is a slight chance it could return at some point. But that appears very unlikely at this point.
Season to Date (StD) Ratings Results:
| Air Date | Airings | Live+SD Rtg | StD Avg | Tot Vwrs (M) | Status |
| 11/8/20 | 1 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.1 | On the Bubble |
| 11/15/20 | 2 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.1 | On the Bubble |
| 11/22/20 | 3 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.1 | On the Bubble |
| 11/29/20 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.0 | On the Bubble |
| 12/6/20 | 5 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.1 | On the Bubble |
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