Resident Alien has been canceled after four seasons, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The news came Thursday night ahead of the show’s intended finale set for Aug. 8. The sci-fi comedy, starring Alan Tudyk as a crash-landed alien named Harry, notably shifted its home network from Syfy to USA Network for its fourth season in hopes to expand its audience.
Resident Alien received a bit of a viewership boost from the first three seasons of the series being available to stream on Netflix last summer. In a conversation with TV Insider, series creator and showrunner Chris Sheridan said he “knew going into [season four] that this was likely going to be our final season.”
“Creatively, that was exciting because I knew we could spend the time wrapping up some storylines and driving toward an ending,” Sheridan added. “I’m so proud of how good Season 4 is and especially proud that we were able to finish as strongly as we did, with a finale that is probably my favorite episode of the series.”
Alongside Tudyk, who plays an alien attempting to assimilate to human life in a small town in Colorado, Resident Alien starred Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler, Elizabeth Bowen, Judah Prehn and Meredith Garretson. The series is produced UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Amblin TV and Dark Horse Entertainment.
Notably, Syfy and USA will both be a part of Comcast‘s cable TV spinoff company Versant.
TV Insider was the first to report on the cancellation.