Starz has decided to not move forward with a third season of Counterpart, starring J.K. Simmons. The sci-fi espionage thriller will now have its series finale on February 17.
Starz made its decision not to proceed with the series beyond its original two-season order in late December/early January. The cast extended their options until February 1 to give MRC, which is said to believe strongly in the show, time to find a new home. The actors’ options have now expired, and they are free to get new series jobs, though MRC is still pitching the series to potential buyers in the streaming space.
Starz definitely had initial faith in the series. The network picked up Counterpart straight to series with a two-season order. The reviews for the series were also quite good (100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and it gained a bit of a devoted following, albeit, a small one. Its most recent Live+3 deliveries were 434,000 total viewers and 136,000 adults 18-49 for the February 3 episode.
Counterpart follows Howard Silk, a lowly cog in a Berlin-based bureaucratic UN spy agency. He discovers his organization safeguards a crossing into a parallel dimension and is thrust into a shadow world in which the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world.
