Amazon StudiosFans hoping for some resolution to the mysteries of Amazon's The After can stop holding their breath.
E! News can confirm Amazon Studios has shelved Chris Carter's new series. The After, part of Amazon's pilot season, was ordered to series after receiving positive feedback in February 2014. Fast-forward a year later and nothing.
"We have decided to not move forward with The After," Roy Price, vice president of Amazon Studios, said in a statement. "We would like to thank Chris Carter, the phenomenal cast, crew and producers for all their efforts."
The show's pilot is still available to view on Amazon. The series, which hailed from The X-Files' creator, followed eight strangers who are thrown together in a violent world by "mysterious forces."
The After starred Adrian Pasdar, Jamie Kennedy, Sharon Lawrence, Aldis Hodge, Andrew Howard, Arielle Kebbel, Sam Littlefield, Louise Monot, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason Lewis, Brynn Bowie, Madison Bowie, Giovanni Lopes, Fred Cross, Stacey Rand, Greg Collins, Don Harvey, Rolando Boyce, Dove Meir and J.R. Cruz.
On Amazon, The After had four out of five stars from viewers who watched the pilot.
Amazon's push into the original programming sphere has been successful so far with the critically acclaimed Transparent and comedy Alpha House. Its latest addition, Mozart in the Jungle, stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Bernadette Peters.
The After's cancellation before the rest of its series premiere is just the latest in a line of shows getting axed before the proper debut.
Fox touted Hieroglyph to press and advertisers in May only to pull the plug on the series, which was already in production, in June. NBC canceled the Krysten Ritter comedy Mission Control prior to its debut. Ritter has moved on to star in the Netflix series AKA Jessica Jones about the Marvel Comics character. Similarly, NBC's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Tina Fey's new series starring Ellie Kemper, was shuffled off to Netflix and given a second season order before it debuted on NBC.