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Netflix saves the day once again by picking up canceled series Scavengers Reign from Max, pleasing fans and sparking hopes for Season 2. Co-creators express excitement for show's switch to Netflix, thanking fans and the platform for the opportunity to reach a wider audience. With critical acclaim and growing fan base, Scavengers Reign on Netflix has reignited calls for Season 2 renewal, leaving fans eagerly waiting.

Netflix has once again been picking up the canceled shows of other streaming platforms, this time taking on the animated series Scavengers Reign. The series debuted on Max in October 2023, but despite holding a perfect 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, with an equally impressive 94% audience score, the show was canceled by Max last month. However, Netflix have wasted no time in swooping to pick up the distribution rights to the story of the crew of an interstellar freighter ship stranded on a dangerous planet.

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Acclaimed Max show Scavengers Reign moves to Netflix after a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating. It's a non-exclusive Netflix deal, which means the show will still be available on Max. Netflix could renew Scavengers Reign for season 2.

Scavengers Reign, the acclaimed Max show with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, is coming to Netflix. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, Scavengers Reign is an adult-animated sci-fi series that debuted on Max in October 2023. The story unfolds on an alien planet where a damaged interstellar freighter ship gets stranded. From there, the remaining crew works to locate their ship and missing crewmates while they navigate a hostile world that has thrived without human interference.

After first being reported by What's On Netflix, it's been confirmed by Variety that Scavengers Reign will begin streaming on Netflix in the U.S. as of May 31, after Max cancelled the show. It's a non-exclusive deal, which means...

Scavengers Reign will not continue on Max any longer.

The animated sci-fi series has been canceled by the streamer after one season. The first season will remain on Max, though it will also begin streaming on Netflix beginning May 31.

Scavengers Reign is about the surviving crew of a damaged deep space freighter who are stranded on a beautiful yet unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.

Season 1 debuted on Max in October. The series is co-created and executive produced by animators, writers, and directors Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner. 

Benjy Brooke serves as supervising director; executive produced by Chris Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, Shannon Prynoski, and Ben Kalina for Titmouse. Co-executive produced by Sean Buckelew and James Merrill for Green Street Pictures.

“Scavengers Reign” has been canceled at Max, but all hope is not yet lost for the show.

Beginning on May 31, Season 1 of the animated sci-fi drama will begin streaming on Netflix in the U.S., the U.K., Ireland and New Zealand. The Netflix deal is non-exclusive, meaning the episodes will remain available on Max. Sources tell Variety that Netflix is considering picking up “Scavengers Reign” for a second season, but a decision won’t be made until after Season 1’s debut on the streamer.

The series is set on an alien planet where a damaged interstellar freighter ship gets stranded and follows the remaining crew as they struggle to locate their ship and missing crewmates while navigating a hostile world that has thrived without human interference.

Variety named “Scavengers Reign” one of the top 19 shows of 2023, with critic Alison Herman writing that it “pairs the engrossing ambience of a...

Fans of science fiction have simultaneously seen something similar to Max’s new adult animated series Scavengers Reign and absolutely nothing like it before.

It’s a dichotomy that the show’s creative team leaned into when trying to create a world that houses a group of surviving crewmembers from the Demeter, a deep-space freighter ship damaged by a solar flare and stranded on a beautiful but terrifying planet. Separated and unaware the others have survived, each group — and in some cases a single individual — attempts to navigate and survive the hostile planet in hopes of eventual rescue.

Co-created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, the series, based on their 2016 short Scavengers, has been adapted into a 12-episode series by Green Street Pictures. It’s one of the latest examples of how networks and platforms are not only increasingly interested in animated titles that expand genre representation, but ones that have clear live-action impulses,...

Froy Gutierrez as “Ryan” and Madelaine Petsch as “Maya” in ‘The Strangers’ Trilogy, a Lionsgate release (Photo Credit: John Armour for Lionsgate)

The 2023 New York Comic Con may be moving forward without any big-name actors, but it’s still got plenty of television panels (and a scattering of film panels) planned over the course of the four-day event. Nycc kicks off on October 12th at Javits Center, with the first day’s lineup confirmed to include a preview of The Strangers Trilogy, creatives from Futurama, details on For All Mankind season four, and the season one finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

Nycc continues on Friday, October 13th with Apple TV+’s upcoming epic dive into Legendary’s Monsterverse – Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Friday panels also include Archer, Evil, Goosebumps, Chucky, and a spotlight on horrormeister John Carpenter.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Krapopolis, Ghosts of Ruin, and Matthew Vaughn host panels on Saturday,...

Scavengers Reign is a captivating sci-fi animated series that takes viewers on a thrilling journey across the cosmos, filled with exploration and survival. The crew of the Demeter, originally on a routine voyage, awakens on an unknown planet, facing the challenges of their new environment in hopes of rescue or escape. Scavengers Reign, created by Charles Huettner and Joe Bennett, showcases their distinctive creative style and is accompanied by a lineup of other exciting shows on Max.

A new animated tale is set to bloom in the vast expanse of the universe. This October, embrace the allure and mystery of the cosmos with the latest animated offering from Max, Scavengers Reign. This gripping sci-fi series promises a breathtaking voyage across the cosmic ocean, where the splendors and terrors of the outer worlds unfold in a symphony of exploration and survival. Bearing the burden of sudden tragedy, the crew of the...

HBO Max has ordered the adult animated sci-fi drama Scavengers Reign to series. Set to premiere next year, the series is co-created and executive produced by animators, writers, and directors Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner. It’s from Titmouse and will be unveiled at the Annecy Animation Festival.

Scavengers Reign is about the surviving crew of a damaged deep space freighter who are stranded on a beautiful yet unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.

Benjy Brooke serves as supervising director; executive produced by Chris Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, Shannon Prynoski, and Ben Kalina for Titmouse. Co-executive produced by Sean Buckelew and James Merrill for Green Street Pictures.

J.J. Villard’s debut animation series for Adult Swim may have won the network its first ever Emmy for animation, in 2015, but the creator wasn’t given free reign for his follow-up show, JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales, which he produced and directed. “After King Star King, they just told me, ‘This show is way too perverted,'” he recalls. “‘You went way too far.'” Before creating the six 11-minute episodes of his latest series, Villard was told: no sexual jokes, no religious jokes and no fart and throw-up jokes. “So I was like, ‘Okay, cool.’ And then I told my writers and they’re like, ‘Well, do you want me to quit today? Because what else, what the f**k are we going to do?'”

Somehow Villard and writers James Merrill and Johnny Ryan managed to stay just within the parameters set out for them in creating...