HBO’s ‘Westworld’ canceled amid big budgets on more successful shows

Warner Bros. Discovery has canceled "Westworld" on HBO.

“Westworld” has come to an finish.

After 4 seasons, HBO introduced on Friday that the cerebral sci-fi drama is not going to return to tv, The Publish has confirmed.

Warner Bros. Discovery — the cable community’s new guardian firm — cited the exhibits hefty manufacturing prices paired with dwindling viewership.

The newly shaped media conglomerate is slashing its price range as a part of its $3.5 billion cost-saving synergies plan. In the meantime, HBO is reportedly now dropping dozens of thousands and thousands every on “Home of the Dragon” and “Euphoria”.

“Westworld” stars Evan Rachel Wooden, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafyan and James Marsden.

Ariana DeBose, Aurora Perrineau and Daniel Wu additionally joined the forged in Season 4.

The sequence ran for 4 seasons.

Husband and spouse producing duo Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure created the sequence, which premiered in 2016. The present centered round a technically superior amusement park with robotic “hosts” in a wild west setting.

Upon its debut, the present achieved HBO’s highest viewership for a premiere since “True Detective” in 2014. The primary season of the present was simply as profitable because it grew to become the most-watched HBO authentic sequence ever. 

However scores have slipped every season since, and dramatically dropped in Season 4, which concluded on Aug. 14.

Ed Harris in Season 2 of “Westworld.”

The sequence acquired 54 Emmy nominations and scored 9 wins.

“Over the previous 4 seasons, Lisa and Jonah have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, elevating the bar at each step,” HBO mentioned in a press release to Selection. “We're tremendously grateful to them, together with their immensely gifted forged, producers and crew, and all of our companions at Kilter Movies, Unhealthy Robotic and Warner Bros. Tv. It’s been a thrill to affix them on this journey.”

“Westworld” scored 9 Emmy wins throughout its run.

Nolan and Pleasure added in their very own assertion via banner Kilter Movies: “Making ‘Westworld’ has been one of many highlights of our careers. We're deeply grateful to our extraordinary forged and crew for creating these indelible characters and sensible worlds. We’ve been privileged to inform these tales about the way forward for consciousness – each human and past – within the transient window of time earlier than our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”

The Publish has reached out to reps at HBO for remark.