A fan-favorite Starz TV show is getting canceled after just a season. However, there’s still hope for a Season 2 happening.
What Starz TV show has been canceled?
According to a new report from Deadline, Steven S. Knight’s Spartacus: House of Ashur is being canceled after just a season. The show, which premiered in December 2025, was a sequel series to the original Spartacus TV show, and followed the character of Ashur in an alternate timeline, one where he wasn’t killed on Mount Vesuvius.
Despite being canceled, Deadline notes the show is being shopped around to other platforms by Lionsgate, so hope for a second season isn’t over just yet.
House of Ashur was led by Nick E. Tarabay, Graham McTavish, Teinka Davis, Claudia Black, Jamaica Vaughan, Ivana Baquero, Leigh Gill, Jordi Webber, and India Shaw-Smith. The series was created by Knight, who also created both the original Spartacus, and served as a director on other projects like Daredevil, Dollhouse, and Jupiter’s Legacy.
The show is described as a “history-bending, erotic, thrilling, roller-coaster experience that builds on everything that made the original series a colossal hit. The series poses the question: what if Ashur, played by fan favorite Nick Tarabay, hadn’t died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of Spartacus: Vengeance? And what if he had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion?”
The first season of Spartacus, titled Spartacus: Blood and Sand, premiered in January 2010. It was followed by a six-episode prequel miniseries titled Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. The second season, Spartacus: Vengeance, came in 2012 followed by the third season, Spartacus: War of the Damned, in 2013.
