Netflix has been on the roll when it comes to show cancellations on their streaming site. Not only have they canceled under promoted shows such as First Kill and Warrior Nun, but even shows they have supposedly greenlit for a Season 2 like Inside Job and Dead End: Paranormal Park. However, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters defended they have “never” canceled successful shows.
“It’s a big business because that’s what consumers want,” Sarandos explained to Bloomberg, “There’s a great history of following what consumers want. We’ve developed a business that is not growing as fast as we want it to, but is growing in the three things that matter the most: engagement, revenue, and profit.”
When asked about the “evolution of business” on Netflix’s initial goal to come to a close with HBO’s site, Sarandos added that, “We have never canceled a [successful] show. A lot of these shows were well-intended, but talk to a very small audience on a very big budget. The key to it is you have to be able to talk to a small audience on a small budget and a large audience at a large budget. If you do that well, you can do that forever.”
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While their statements have been notable on behalf of Netflix, fans took to Twitter their outage on the whole they “have never canceled” a successful show before. This isn’t the first time Netflix was called out by many of its viewers. In fact, last time, fans dug up an old tweet of the streaming site’s official Twitter account stating: “We don’t like leaving a story unfinished. We learned a lot from Sense and we’re going to try to not do this in the future” while setting Sense8, another previous show they canceled, as an example of their “mistake”.
If there’s one thing fans are good at, it’s protecting their few favorite continuing shows on Netflix. Check out some of the fan reactions below:
As you can tell, the majority of the tweets came from fans who have had their favorite shows, the aforementioned titles, canceled despite their found success on the streaming site. This begs the question on what grounds does Netflix have when it comes to canceling shows?
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