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Irish-made sci-fi series Nightflyers axed after one season

Nightflyers - The Syfy network in the US decided not to renew the show for a second season
Nightflyers - The Syfy network in the US decided not to renew the show for a second season

Nightflyers, the sci-fi series filmed at Limerick's Troy Studios and screened on Netflix in Europe, has been cancelled after one season.

The series, which was based on the novella of the same name by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin and which included Irish actors  Aoibhinn McGinnity, Eoin Macken and Brían F O'Byrne among the cast, made its debut on Netflix earlier this month after premiering on the Syfy network in the US last December.

US entertainment trade website Deadline reports that Syfy has now decided not to renew the show for a second season.

"Syfy brass concluded that it was better off as a one-off limited series," it says. 

Ten episodes is all Nightflyers fans are going to get

Based on Martin's 1980 novella - later turned into a 1987 film - Nightflyers told the story of "eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath" who join the crew of the Nightflyer and its reclusive captain in seeking alien life at the edge of the solar system. 

The eighth and final season of Martin's Game of Thrones returns to Sky Atlantic in Ireland and the UK on April 15.
 

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