It has been confirmed that The Runarounds will not be coming back for a second season on Prime Video, and while the news only officially broke on April 3, 2026, sources told Deadline that the show had actually been quietly cancelled a couple of months before the announcement was even made. The first and only season of the music drama dropped all eight episodes on September 1, 2025, and for seven months after that, Prime Video said nothing publicly about its future, which in the streaming world is rarely a good sign.The Runarounds is the project developed by Jonas Pate, who was one of the co-creators of Outer Banks for Netflix. It centres around several new high school graduates from Wilmington, North Carolina, who want to form a rock band during their summer after high school graduation.What is unique about The Runarounds, compared to most musical dramas, is that all the band members (William Lipton, Axel Ellis, Jeremy Yun, Zendé Murdock, Jesse Golliher) are a real band and were formed in 2021 specifically to be featured in this project.They play instruments themselves while they perform on the set, plus they composed and wrote their own tunes. In essence, what they were experiencing was identical to what the creators of the series wanted to convey. The Runarounds is cancelled; that is for sure, mainly because it was not getting enough viewers to sustain the show.What the numbers of The Runarounds looked like and why they were not enough?According to Deadline, The Runarounds never cracked Nielsen's weekly Top 10 streaming chart, which is one of the main benchmarks that Prime Video and other major streamers use to judge whether a show is performing well enough to continue. It did show up on Luminate's broader Top 50 chart during its first three weeks, pulling in 1.9 million hours watched in the US in its opening weekend at number 32, then 2.2 million hours at number 27 in week two, and 1.2 million hours at number 41 in week three. After that, it fell off the chart entirely.For context, Prime Video has been building out a whole slate of young adult content off the back of the massive success of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which turned into a phenomenon for the streamer. Shows like Maxton Hall and We Were Liars have both done well for them in that space, and the Culpables film franchise has also found an audience. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostBut not everything in that YA expansion has worked, and The Runarounds was not the only casualty. In addition, Motorheads, which came out in 2025, has yet to be renewed for any subsequent seasons as well, due to neither program being able to meet the success that the streaming company was looking for.The lead actress of the show, Lilah Pate, who is also the daughter of creator Jonas Pate, has already moved on to her next project. She has booked a series regular role on Frisco King, the Tulsa King spinoff being developed for Paramount+ by Taylor Sheridan, which is a significant next step for her career and also a sign that the path forward from The Runarounds had already been found before the cancellation was even made public.What did the band say, and where do they go from here?Although The Runarounds TV series is done, the band is still going, and they made that very clear pretty quickly after the news was released. The 5 members posted to the band's Instagram and stated directly to the fans that although the TV series is over, the band is not."This is merely the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one."They also teased that their first album as a band is on the way, which they had been working on separately from the show's soundtrack. The Runarounds are currently in the middle of what they have been calling their Minivan Tour, which runs through mid-April and then picks back up again in June for more dates. They are set to play Bonnaroo, which is not a small booking, and a sold-out show at the House of Blues in Florida, among other stops.Jonas Pate had previously told The Hollywood Reporter that he had a five-season plan mapped out for the show, with each season tracking the band at a different stage of their career, from a regional van tour all the way up to stadium shows. That will not be happening on screen now, but at least for the five actual musicians at the centre of it all, the journey continues.