Kurt Sutter Cancels "The Bastard Executioner" Via Hollywood Reporter Ad
November 18, 2015
by Lacey Rose


The audience has spoken and unfortunately the word is, "meh."

So reads the ad creator Kurt Sutter took out in this publication and others to announce the cancellation of his FX series, "The Bastard Executioner".



The "heartbreaking" decision, made in concert with FX Networks CEO John Landgraf, comes as the ambitious 14th century period drama lost more than half of its audience through its first six weeks on the air, falling from 4 million combined weekly viewers for its Sept. 15 premiere to just 1.9 million for episode six.

The series wrapped its first, and now final, season Nov. 17.

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Sutter went out in a "blaze of glory" with this morning's cancelation announcement in the trades, says Brian Lowry. He adds: “In this age of reboots and contortions to keep series alive, there’s something refreshing about acknowledging that failure is simply a part of television, even if there was a little bit of 'You can’t fire me, I quit' bravado underlying that, since FX would have likely reached the same conclusion."