And the Next Cancelled Show is...
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The horrible numbers we saw accounted for time shifting.
Still doesn't invalidate what was said earlier. A company that's in it for the money is making it and perhaps making all the decisions, which should never happen with something like this.
I'm not even surprised or shocked anymore by Netflix cancelling things anymore. But what does surprise me is that they'll go ahead and produce something that they'll go ahead and cancel after a single season. If things are so bad to cancel it after 1 season, then why bother? Wouldn't there be focus groups telling them it's perhaps best not to go ahead with them? Instead, it seems there are an awful lot of below average content that they seem to greenlight and then cancel shortly after release. Ends up feeling like "Yay, a release! Uh... btw, we're cancelling it!"
I was quite crestfallen when they killed the new Dark Crystal series. Was waiting 40 years for that and it was put down way too soon. Although I get how it was way too cost-prohibitive for them to do the full puppet thing on practical sets vs CG. A shame, it was a brilliant show.
Now I'm just hoping they don't also kill several others of my favorites. Cobra Kai doesn't have any visual effects-heavy sequences, so I'm confident they'll keep it around for a little while longer. Witcher, however, is on that thin line of also maybe being too expensive to keep around. Umbrella Academy has already been given its fourth and final season to close out on its own terms, so no worries there. Then there's Stranger Things that, like Witcher, may be too expensive to continue to produce much longer. If all these things end due to Netflix cost cutting and fiduciary mismanagement, I suspect I will no longer have need of them.
Now I'm just hoping they don't also kill several others of my favorites. Cobra Kai doesn't have any visual effects-heavy sequences, so I'm confident they'll keep it around for a little while longer. Witcher, however, is on that thin line of also maybe being too expensive to keep around. Umbrella Academy has already been given its fourth and final season to close out on its own terms, so no worries there. Then there's Stranger Things that, like Witcher, may be too expensive to continue to produce much longer. If all these things end due to Netflix cost cutting and fiduciary mismanagement, I suspect I will no longer have need of them.
I suspect the Witcher will get one more season, as per their 3-season default, and nothing more, aside from the spinoff. Given the popularity of Stranger Things, I think it's safe for a while longer, but it's definitely an outlier.
I expect STRANGER THINGS to be done after season 5.
Likely so. The actors are growing faster than the characters should be, as is always the case when child actors are involved in long-running shows. I suspect the final season will deal with taking down the Mind Flayer and possibly destroying the Upside-Down for good.
The Duffer Brothers announced before season four came out that season five would be the final season.
Still has lasted longer than most Netflix shows, so there's that.
Longer than originally intended, in fact.
I suspect the many cancellations have a lot to do with Netflix's 'binge' based business model: their growth comes entirely from new subscriptions, so they are always on the lookout for new shows. Once a show has brought in more subscriptions, what's the use of spending more on it? Mind you, this model seems to be falling apart.
Perhaps you're right. Although you can't exactly expect viewership to gain any traction when it's pulled so soon, especially when weighed against their discovery. People have so much to watch, even on their own platform, and they would eventually get to it, but it seems to be "Now! or get lost!"
Despite the bloodbath going on at WB/D and HBO Max, Harley Quinn officially received an order for a fourth season.
Honestly...I'm genuinely shocked.
The Peacock series Rutherford Falls has been cancelled (it's second season, which dropped on June 16, is the last).
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I'm not going to tell my wife about Rutherford Falls.
She'll figure it out months from now, and punch a hole in a wall.
She'll figure it out months from now, and punch a hole in a wall.
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