Motorheads has been cancelled after one season despite showing strong viewership numbers. There’s still a silver lining to the update because the producers are now shopping the Prime Video streaming series to other streamers.

Executive producer Jason Seagraves said Prime Video’s Motorheads was developed for a broader audience. “We set out to make a show with no agenda and a lot of heart, to give families something they can watch together,” he told Deadline. The show has held its ground in the streamer’s daily top ten since it premiered last May (it’s #7 in the United States as of Aug. 31). Motorheads is also well-received, having garnered a 78% critical score at Rotten Tomatoes.

Amazon MGM Studios head Vernon Sanders hinted that the show has already built a dedicated fan base. “What I’ve been excited to see on that show in particular is we’ve got such great completion rates,” he told the outlet last month. “So folks who start that show tend to watch it all the way through, and that’s a great sign.” Audience reception for Motorheads is overwhelmingly positive, currently fresh at 95%.

“We were just really wowed by the idea of the show,” Sanders added. “We were launching NASCAR this summer, and so having a show that actually spoke to fans of that genre [was an asset]. It was really just the characters. We feel like we lucked out getting into business with those showrunners as well. Motorheads has just really sort of resonated with us and struck us … We’re quite proud of it.”

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The series has not been renewed despite its performance and the streamer’s push for more young adult content, notably The Summer I Turned Pretty and We Were Liars. However, unlike those shows, Motorheads is an entirely original concept: it’s “about first love, first heartbreak and turning the key in your very first car,” per the official logline. “It centers on teen twins Zac and Caitlyn who, along with their mother Samantha, move to Pennsylvania to live with their uncle Logan, a former NASCAR driver-tuned-auto body shop owner.”

Flashbacks played an integral role in Motorheads‘ narrative, according to series lead Ryan Phillippe. “It really heavily reshapes the way you view almost everyone in the story,” he told ScreenRant, referring to his character Logan’s backstory. “That’s what I love about the show: we’ve got all of the coming-of-age moments, and we’ve got the humor and the heart, but there [are] also multiple mysteries going on.”

“It’s an incredibly bingeable series, and every episode ends with a cliffhanger. It leads you right into the next one, so I hope that people are just going to watch this thing all in one go,” he added. Season 1 ended on a shocking cliffhanger, something Seagraves promises to resolve.

“While [series creator John A. Norris] and I are disappointed Motorheads won’t be continuing at Prime Video, we couldn’t be more proud of what the team created,” he asserted. “Despite going into release with impossibly low audience awareness, our passionate and vocal fan base led the charge and made the series impossible to ignore. Their enthusiasm has energized us and we’re optimistic we’ll find a home that believes in and supports the show.”

Motorheads Season 1 is streaming on Prime Video.

Motorheads

Release Date

May 20, 2025

Network

Prime Video

Directors

Neil Burger

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