Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2021-22, One Season Totaling 8 Episodes
Series Premiere: December 16, 2021
Network: AMC+
Starring: Yael Stone, Rob Collins, Callan Mulvey, Shantae Barnes-Cowan.
Series Website: www.amcplus.com/
Description: Firebite is set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations. Sheltering from the sun in the underground mines and tunnels that surround the town until the present day, the colony’s numbers and hunger is growing. War is coming. Tyson and Shanika stand vanguard to the war. But what hope does an expertly reckless man full of bravado and a 17-year-old orphan possibly have to defeat these vicious blood-thirsty parasites, when legions of warriors before them have failed?
Note: This show will release one episode per week on Thursdays.
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Why Was It Cancelled? This Australian-made vampire romp is one of the first scripted originals for AMC’s streaming service, and I figured that they would want to keep it going at least into a second season. It certainly can’t be too expensive of a show to produce and new streamers are usually supportive of their originals. But there has been no word on the show’s fate since it wrapped up its eight-episode run in February, and since then AMC+’s sci fi entry Moonhaven received a quick second season renewal. At this point, I am going to consider Firebite done, though it is not impossible that it could return from the grave at some point, especially if fans make some noise to help it out.
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