Prime Video is stopping after Season 1
TheWrap reported on September 4 that Prime Video has opted not to renew Spider-Noir. The decision arrives a little over three months after its debut.
The series premiered on MGM+'s U.S. linear channel on May 25 and reached Prime Video globally on May 27, where all eight episodes were released together.
There will be no Season 2.
The timing makes those 11 Emmy nominations hard to ignore
Amazon MGM Studios announced in July that Spider-Noir had earned 11 nominations at the 2026 Emmy Awards. That made it Amazon's most nominated series this year, ahead of Fallout with ten.
The categories are heavily weighted toward craft: cinematography, production design, title design, prosthetic makeup, music, sound, visual effects and stunt work.
That tracks with the show's defining idea. Spider-Noir was designed to operate as both a superhero production and a period film-noir series, with viewers able to choose between an Authentic Black & White presentation and a True-Hue Full Color version.
Awards recognition and renewal economics are two different things. The contrast is still unusually sharp.
Amazon has not supplied an audience number that explains the cancellation
Prime Video has not publicly attached the decision to a specific viewing threshold or released detailed numbers showing exactly how Spider-Noir performed relative to its cost.
Calling it a measurable audience failure would therefore require information that is not currently public.
Critical reception was not obviously hostile either. Rotten Tomatoes lists the first season above 90% with critics, while the series also collected the strongest Emmy tally in Amazon's 2026 slate.
Cage's Ben Reilly deliberately avoided another young Peter Parker
Spider-Noir placed Nicolas Cage in 1930s New York as Ben Reilly, an aging private investigator haunted by his former life as the masked hero known as The Spider.
Cage had previously voiced Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but the live-action show was not simply a recreation of that animated character.
Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot built the series around hard-boiled detective fiction, pulling as much from classic noir imagery as from familiar Spider-Man mythology.
Lamorne Morris played reporter Robbie Robertson, Li Jun Li was nightclub singer Cat Hardy and Brendan Gleeson appeared as crime boss Silvermane. Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola and Jack Huston were also part of the ensemble.
Making two visual versions was more complicated than adding a filter
The color and monochrome options were designed into production rather than generated as an afterthought.
Lighting, costume colors, makeup, lenses and visual-effects work all had to survive both presentations. The production's VFX pipeline also had to accommodate the different visual requirements.
Spider-Noir's Emmy nominations for cinematography, production design, makeup, sound, visual effects and stunts reflect how much of the show's identity was concentrated in those choices.
The larger Sony-Amazon Spider-Man television plan is not necessarily dead
Spider-Noir was an important test for the content partnership between Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios built around Sony-controlled Spider-Man characters.
That strategy has already had casualties. Silk: Spider Society spent years in development before Amazon ultimately declined to move forward with it.
Entertainment Weekly now reports that another series under the Sony-Amazon arrangement remains in development, with further details expected later. No title has been publicly identified.
So the lesson is narrower than declaring Sony's entire Spider-Man television experiment over. One series made it to air. It earned 11 Emmy nominations. Amazon still decided eight episodes were enough.
Spider-Noir itself remains available
The cancellation does not remove Season 1 from Prime Video, and both viewing formats remain available.
It also does not determine the future of every incarnation of Spider-Man Noir across Sony's animated Spider-Verse projects. The live-action Ben Reilly series is the part that ends here.
