Syfy has renewed the hit original sci-fi series “The Ark” for a second season following strong ratings for the series.
The first season has reached 6.5 million viewers across all platforms, according to Nielsen and Syfy, with the series premiere pulling in the best total viewership numbers since “Resident Alien” in January 2021.
The series teams two of the architects of the “Stargate” franchise – that film’s co-writer Dean Devlin and the SG-1 series co-creator Jonathan Glassner.
The pair, who previously teamed on The CW’s “The Outpost” series, serve as co-showrunners here on a story that takes place aboard the Ark One, an interstellar vessel carrying humanity’s last hope for survival a century in our future.
At this time, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. Ark One is the first of these missions and encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and killing off many of its key crew in the process.
With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves and band together to stay on course, survive the unseen forces threatening them, and complete the mission of colonizing a distant planet our species may call home.
Devlin and Glassner say in a statement: “We couldn’t be more excited to get back into space with the crew of the Ark. Syfy continues to be an amazing partner and home for this series.”
Christie Burke, Richard Fleeshman, Reece Ritchie, Stacey Read and Ryan Adams star in the series. The first season finale will air Wednesday, April 19th on Syfy and all episodes are available for streaming on Peacock.
Source: Syfy
