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The Bastard Executioner cancelled after one season

Writer Kurt Sutter hasn’t been able to repeat the success of his hit TV drama Sons of Anarchy – his new show The Bastard Executioner has been axed after just one season.
Network executives at FX and Fox 21 TV Studios have pulled the plug on the series after 10 episodes because of low ratings.
Sutter admits he has known about the show’s cancellation for weeks, but did not inform the cast until recently.
“The audience has spoken and unfortunately the word is, ‘meh’,” Sutter writes in an ad in The Hollywood Reporter. “So with due respect, we bring our mythology to an epic and fiery close.”
Sutter goes on to explain that he wanted to bring closure to the show and even though it did not succeed in the ratings arena, he insists the venture wasn’t a failure.
He also praises the cast and crew of the show, telling Deadline.com, “I’ve never worked with a higher calibre of talent from top to bottom. I love my Sons cast and the people I work with here, but U.K. actors just have a different approach to the work and are not caught up in the machine of Hollywood.
“Here (in Hollywood), people get caught up in the awareness of ratings, and reviews and what everybody thinks, and ‘Am I going to have a job?’ Out there, there is more of a journeyman approach to acting… They just focus on the work.
“I started out with people who’d never worked together before, with some doing their first TV series work, and as the show progressed over the two-hour pilot and eight episodes, they bonded so much. They loved the work, and the characters in this ensemble.
“I was there in the finale, and I knew at that point the fate of the show, and I could tell there was no awareness of it, which was a bit heartbreaking and kind of beautiful. They didn’t know anything was coming and I couldn’t tell them. I just wanted to let them know now what an amazing experience this was for me.”
Sutter is now focusing on developing a Sons of Anarchy spin-off series about the members of the Mayans, a Hispanic biker gang which battled the club led by Charlie Hunnam’s character throughout the entirety of the hit series.

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