Science fiction drama series, Colony, on Universal TV, cancelled after 3 seasons after big fall in ratings.

The science fiction drama series, Colony on NBCUniversal International Networks' Universal TV (DStv 117) has been cancelled after 3 seasons following a big fall in viewership.

The series with Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies started in 2015 in the United States, with NBCUniversal International acquiring and scheduling the first and second season back-to-back on Universal TV since March this year for South Africa and Africa.

The show's ratings fell during the third season that saw the production move from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Colony was produced by Legendary Television and Universal Cable Productions and was created and executive produced by Carlton Cuse and Ryan Condal.

The third season of Colony finally introduced a first-look at the "aliens" who took over Earth and segregated populations - but it turned out to be a ... robot!

It wasn't "aliens" who invaded Earth but robots - scared and fleeing from an even more threatening as-yet-unseen alien race. With Colony's abrupt cancellation there won't be any conclusion to the story.

IN IMAGES. The Universal Channel's beautiful media preview screening of the new American drama series, Colony, with Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies.

On Monday evening NBCUniversal International Networks held a media screening event in Johannesburg for the American drama series Colony starting on the Universal Channel (DStv 117) on Mondays at 20:00.

NBCUniversal revealed that the second season of Colony will follow seamlessly after the conclusion of the first season of this dystopian/police state drama with Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies in the lead roles.

A lot of effort was put into making a beautiful experience and creating a wonderful media screening environment at The Venue in Melrose Arch where media and journalists covering television, MultiChoice programming executives, and TV talent sipped on sparking wine and were served a diverse range of snacks.

Media guests tucked into jalapeno poppers with sour cream, smoked salmon and cream cheese, smoked lamb cubes, chicken, squid ink pasta with smoked prawns, sushi rolls and beef teriyaki stir-fry.

Dessert was beautiful purple blueberry cake pops.

The Cape Town radio presenter Bailey Schneider was the master of ceremonies for the Colony press screening and Sarah Wayne Callies skyped in from Lisbon to answer questions from the press.

M-Net acquires and schedules several great science fiction series for March that are all well worth watching.

M-Net has acquired and scheduled (and rescheduled!) several great science fiction series for March that are all well worth watching.

M-Net (DStv 101) picked up the new science fiction thriller series, Counterpart, that started in America on 10 December. Counterpart will start on Tuesday 27 March at 22:00 on M-Net and revolves around a man who discovers that the mysterious agency he works for is guarding a secret parallel dimension.

Then M-Net also grabbed the first season of the anthology science fiction series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (pictured above).

Like The Outer Limits, every episode has a self-contained science fiction story and will start on M-Net on Wednesday 14 March at 22:00.



Then there is the rescheduled Time After Time that was initially slotted for late-2017 and for M-Net, but was yanked from the schedule.

Time After Time has now also been moved to M-Net City (DStv 115). It will now premiere on this channel on Monday 5 March at 21:00. The show was sadly cancelled after its first season but the story is great. HG Wells uses his time machine to pursue the serial killer Jack the Ripper to modern-day New York.

Not science fiction but also looking good, is the new forensic crime drama series, Instinct, that M-Net has also acquired. Instinct, with Alan Cumming, will start on M-Net City (DStv 115) 3 days after the new show starts in America.

Instinct is a bit like The Mentalist, Elementary and How to Get Away with Murder, and revolves around the professor and former CIA agent Dr Dylan Reinhart who is lured back to his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer who is using his book to commit murders.

South Africa is far behind, but the first season of the quite good, totalitarian science fiction drama series, Colony, is finally starting on the Universal Channel (DStv 117) in March. Josh Holloway is a dad who lives in a segregated Los Angeles with his family where resources are scare after aliens arrived on Earth and divided cities worldwide with massive walls.