'The Expanse' and 'UnReal' head to streaming as Amazon and Hulu pick them up for Season 4's

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By Darian Scalamoni

            As I talk about here on Cinema Wave all the time, we’re living in an era where television rules and there is content coming at us from all angles. It’s surprising though that many shows have been getting the ax from their networks but not as surprising that streaming services and other networks have picked up these series to air on their channels or subscription-based networks.

            It was just last week in which Fox cancelled The Mick, Last Man on Earth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine were cancelled by the network, but the latter was saved by NBC for a Season 6. Now, two more series are being saved, this time by separate streaming services. According to Deadline, The Expanse, Syfy’s critically acclaimed show will get picked up by Amazon for a Season 4. Also, UnReal, the Lifetime drama that has earned awards for its star Constance Zimmer in the past, will move to Hulu for its own fourth (and likely) final season.

            The Expanse is written and co-created by the Oscar-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby who wrote Alfonso Cuaron’s, Children of Men. The show stars Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Frankie Adams and Thomas Jane.

            UnReal was created by Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon and is led by Shiri Appleby who plays Rachel Goldberg, a young producer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with, and among, the contestants of a dating show, in order to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage that the program’s dispassionate executive producer, Quinn King, demands. Constance Zimmer also stars in the series as King.