Netflix announced today that House of Cards, currently in production, will end after its sixth season airs in 2018. They confirmed the decision just hours after Kevin Spacey apologized to actor Anthony Rapp, responding to allegations of sexual harassment. Netflix’s first hit original show was in the news recently for reportedly inspiring Russian trolls who were trying to learn about U.S. politics.

Netflix released the following statement this afternoon,

“Media Rights Capital and Netflix are deeply troubled by last night’s news concerning Kevin Spacey. In response to last night’s revelations, executives from both of our companies arrived in Baltimore this afternoon to meet with our cast and crew to ensure that they continue to feel safe and supported. As previously scheduled, Kevin Spacey is not working on set at this time.”

Though sources say that the decision had been in the works for several months, the continued fallout from Spacey’s apology to Rapp (and coming-out statement) seems to have increased the pressure that Netflix was under to address the future of the show.

The streaming service has yet to say whether Spacey’s title role in the upcoming Gore Vidal biopic, Gore, will be affected.

Beau Willimon, House of Cards’s creator, parted ways with the show after four seasons but commented on the allegations against Spacey on Monday morning, stating that he found them

“deeply troubling.”

The fate of Spacey’s character, Frank Underwood, in the sixth season—which takes up after season five left Claire Underwood in charge—seems up in the air, given the Internet’s near-universal condemnation of the actor’s apology.

(Photo, Netflix; via Vogue)