Perhaps viewers are tiring of stories about people struggling to survive after an apocalyptic event.
This year will see the end of four post-apocalyptic TV shows: “12 Monkeys,” “Colony,” “The Last Man on Earth” and “The Last Ship” (the fifth and final season premieres on Sept. 9).
Meanwhile, the longest-running post-apocalyptic show, “The Walking Dead,” is fading fast in the ratings.
No new post-apocalyptic themed shows are set to premiere this fall.
Fox will start airing “The Passage” in early 2019, but the first season takes place before a viral outbreak leads to a vampire apocalypse. The show is based on a series of novels by Justin Cronin.
One wildcard for this fall is “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” on FX. The show’s producers haven’t released many details about the latest season of the anthology series.
Hollywood hasn’t completely given up on the post-apocalyptic drama genre. Other shows coming include “Y: The Last Man” on FX, “Snowpiercer” on TNT and “Black Summer” on Netflix.
But with only nine such series now airing, and one of those set to end soon, it appears we are past the peak of post-apocalyptic TV series.
By comparison, there were 13 such shows airing around this time last year. The trend of post-apocalyptic themed TV shows peaked in 2016 when there were 16 such genre shows airing.
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Comprehensive list of post-apocalyptic TV shows
8 new post-apocalyptic TV shows in the works (Sept. 6, 2017)
Photos: Poster for the final season of “The Last Ship” (top), scene from “The Passage”
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