The decision on whether or not to renew TERRA NOVA has been so drawn out because the ratings for the show were actually not terrible...if it were any other show on FOX. However, TERRA NOVA is notoriously expensive to produce what with all those dino special effects, so whether or not those modestly good ratings would be enough to carry the show into a second season was unclear. Now we know that the average of 10.1 million viewers (with a 3.6 rating in the adult demo) was simply not enough for FOX to consider a second season worthwhile.
This is unfortunate timing for those who actually sat through all 13 episodes of the show. After a promising-but-shaky two-hour premiere, the show delivered us nine frustratingly weak, dino-lite, family-friendly hours before finally ramping up the action again for the two-hour finale. The last episode was definitely the strongest of the entire (short-lived) series, so it's a little bittersweet to see it get the axe just as it was starting to get interesting.
For those of you who are still dying to find out what secret is hiding out in the Badlands, there is still a tiny glimmer of hope. 20th Century Fox, TERRA NOVA's production company (aka the company that produces the show, as opposed to FOX, which is the network that airs it), isn't ready to give up the fight. They've started shopping the show around to other networks, in the hopes that someone else will want to pick up an already-established brand and give it a second chance. However, the chances of a network taking a gamble on a show that was already deemed "not worth it" by a competitor seem low, so barring such an eleventh hour miracle, it looks like we can declare TERRA NOVA officially extinct.
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