Netflix has renewed its live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender through its third season, and that will close out the series. The show debuted on February 22nd with the second-highest viewership numbers for a Netflix original this season and it has averaged 149 million hours viewed across 20 million accounts. The renewal comes as no surprise, but I would have thought they might have tried to get a fourth season or more out of the show since the initial viewership has been quite high. But this one is certainly expensive to produce (around $15 million per episode), and Netflix execs apparently decided that a three-season run that mirrors the progression of the animated series (which also ran three seasons) would be best. There has been no word on when the second season will premiere, but I expect it will arrive at some point in 2025.
This announcement brings the Cancellation/Renewal Score for the current season to 19 renewed sci fi and fantasy entries (40% of shows tracked) vs. 9 cancelled and ending (19%). You can see the breakdown of the numbers and the full list of shows for the current and prior seasons at our Cancellation Watch Page.
Avatar: The Last Airbender takes place in a world where the people of the four nations have learned to control the elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air and have lived together in harmony. But the Fire Nation wipes out the Airbenders in its first step towards conquering the world, not knowing that one survived and could be the last hope at uniting the world against them. It stars Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Ken Leung, and Daniel Dae Kim and it is based on the animated series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.
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