2021-22 TV/Streaming Ratings/Cancellations OT | Paper Girls' Route Closed
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It is rather disappointing that they went from mega crossover events between multiple shows to just... nothing.
COVID absolutely fucked the crossovers beyond comprehension. And then half the shows ended within about a year of each other.
‘The First Lady’ Canceled: There Will Be No Second Installment Of Showtime Anthology Series
Showtime will not be picking up a second season of one-hour drama anthology series The First Lady.
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|OT| First Lady, Last Season‘The First Lady’ Canceled: There Will Be No Second Installment Of Showtime Anthology Series
Showtime will not be picking up a second season of one-hour drama anthology series The First Lady.
This.
For how campy and ridiculous the writing on these shows were some (a lot of) times, they have always been good, popcorn fun. Turn brain off and enjoy.
So looked forward to the crossover events each season, especially when they got bigger and bigger (with each show added). I'm pretty certain it's something we will never see again. Even crossovers on other stations (like the Chicago shows, when they did them), haven't compared.
I will miss the Arrowverse.
Edit: Technically, I think Superman & Lois is still part of the Arrowverse as that they have been part of the crossover events before. But it's no longer a "-verse" as it's just one show. And I don't see CW creating more shows to build it up again (including making the Gotham Knights part of it).
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Not the same Superman and Lois as the ones who appeared in the Arrowverse. The producers changed their mind and clarified it's a different Earth with no other superheroes.
Hard to disagree with him. I keep meaning to resub to Apple+ but there's always at least three things I want to watch on the services I already have and the next few months look completely insane.
In about a 50-day span we're getting new Game of Thrones, Lord of The Rings, Marvel and Star Wars shows + the highly anticipated Sandman adaptation.
That's not even taking into account the Fall schedule kicking in and other stuff like Power Book III. It's insane.
Netflix Kills Its First Kill
‘First Kill’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season
Netflix has canceled 'First Kill' after one season. Its teen vampire drama series was executive produced by Emma Roberts.
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‘First Kill’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season
Netflix has canceled 'First Kill' after one season. Its teen vampire drama series was executive produced by Emma Roberts.
WHAT?!!!
That's honestly a huge surprise. I really wonder what were the reasons behind this decision.
Doesn't surprise me. Buzz seemed fairly muted on it. I don't get the sense many watched it.
‘First Kill’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season
Netflix has canceled 'First Kill' after one season. Its teen vampire drama series was executive produced by Emma Roberts.
The state of lesbian and sapphic TV keeps getting worse, but also the show wasn't particularly good.
Edit: It seemed to do well enough but the VFX budget is probably what killed it. ("What budget?" I know.)
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‘Weakest Link’ Renewed For Supersized Season 3 At NBC
Weakest Link will return to NBC. The network has renewed the series hosted by Jane Lynch, based on the British game show, for a bumper third season. The second season, which launched in March, consisted of 13 episodes and the third season will feature 20 episodes. 2022 TV Cancellations &...
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Thanks! I guess it makes sense...
Depends on your circle I guess. Around me it gave the impression that it was the biggest thing ever for at least 2-3 weeks. It also had A LOT of buzz on social media.
The state of lesbian and sapphic TV keeps getting worse, but also the show wasn't particularly good.
Edit: It seemed to do well enough but the VFX budget is probably what killed it. ("What budget?" I know.)
I completely agree. I was very critical of the show after I watched it. But I know it made a lot of people happy, and I honestly thought it was a lot more popular than it apparently was. So I figured it would be an easy renewal. Also, it was most probably very, very cheap to make. And yeah, what VFX budget? lol! :p
I'm having a stronger reaction to these WBD cancellations than I thought I'd ever have. Obviously like everyone else I've experienced shows I like getting cancelled but I think its different for the Warner stuff because I've always watched a lot of Warner stuff and they turned into a streaming serviced I liked A LOT. Really sucks that shows are being pulled off the services, there are broad cancellations, movies are getting canned, and the TV networks are getting blasted with ads to promote the Discovery stuff. I enjoy watching some trash TV sometimes but I'd never want that stuff to be the focus of a streaming network. Just looking at the first page of stuff advertised on Discovery Plus and realizing that the large majority of it is complete garbage to me. What a curse to have those execs be the ones who are on top for WBD. Gutting the better content from one portion of the company and supposedly taking the better brand and wrapping into the shittier one.
I'm just going to start assuming and blaming Zaslav for all the decisions that I hate over at WBD.
I'm just going to start assuming and blaming Zaslav for all the decisions that I hate over at WBD.
Im pretty much ready to say that Zaslav has ruined everything. Arrowverse was amazing and did the multiverse thing right. I can't even watch it anymore because of the bad taste these decisions have left it my mouth. At best I need a couple more years.
HBO Max isnt even that old and Im not feeling good about it anymore. Fucking discovery.
HBO Max isnt even that old and Im not feeling good about it anymore. Fucking discovery.
Can't help but be worried myself. Feels like every day more bad news keeps popping up. Whether it's seeing yet more tv shows get cancelled across a few WB networks, or seeing the new Scooby Doo movie ALMOST completed, and getting canned so HBOD can get their tax dollar write offs :/
ironically HBO Max is probably my favorite streamer atm here in Portugal, certainly the one I watch the most. Guess I should hurry up and finish watching Person of Interest and Fringe before they pull the plug.
And I guess RIP Harley Quinn too since its a Max original? sigh
In HBO related news, I finally started watchhing Barry (half of season 1) and unfortunately it's not really doing it for me :(
And I guess RIP Harley Quinn too since its a Max original? sigh
In HBO related news, I finally started watchhing Barry (half of season 1) and unfortunately it's not really doing it for me :(
‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 to Premiere in October (EXCLUSIVE)
The Emmy-nominated anthology series, with Emmy nominee Jennifer Coolidge returning to star, shot its second season in Sicily.
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Just saw HBO Max cut 6 exclusive films from the service. Is Zaslav trying to see how many unforced errors they can make before burning all the public's goodwill with the service?
Bozo Zaslav must really love crappy reality TV. I really just don't get the point in why they bothered to buy WB if they were going to just cancel and remove a ton of stuff. They don't need more outlets for their reality TV since they have several channels and their own shittier streaming service.
Reality TV is cheap to make. They know that most people aren't going to subscribe to a streaming service for crappy reality shows so they get the audience to subscribe for a few high profile scripted shows and keep them hooked on a great amount of shit reality shows that are cheaper to make.
They are buying WB for the catalogue and the content they can share between the premium channel and the streaming service.
That make sense. I mean I get it but also it seems like a strategy that is risky and has a good chance of faltering. I would think they need to keep making scripted shows as part of the hook. Crappy reality TV seems like it would not have the same retention even when combined with a great catalog like WBs.
HBO will keep on making stuff for TV, it's almost certain that the most popular HBO Max Original shows will find their way to TV and those shows will go on to HBO Max.
But I also agree that I have serious doubts that this plan will be successful.
The current mandate at the company is that we only make premium scripted content.
Some of Netflix's biggest hits were far from premium.
The fact that HBO Max is going to merge with Discovery just shows how far out of touch Discovery's executives are.
They apparently claim that Discovery is a bigger brand worldwide but that only is true because Discovery was one of the first big US channels to expand worldwide in the 90s.
If I ask 100 people under 40 about recent HBO shows, I'll probably get a few different answers.
If I ask the same answer about Discovery, I doubt I'll get an answer.
Discovery+ has been a thing for a while, I don't any single person on real life or online that has it.
I know a few dozens who have HBO Max.
I assume it's about buying users and hoping they don't cancel when they merge the services and cut all the scripted stuff. Not sure how smart it is though, but apparently everything is just a writeoff now.
Cut all executive pay and end bonuses for all high level Discovery execs.
It's a $43 billion dollar company. Saving $3B in expenses shouldn't be crippling especially considering the amount of redundancy between WB and Discovery.
That mirrors my experience pretty closely. I know one person with Discovery+ and several times as much who have and use HBO Max. Its unfortunate that they're already killing so many WB/Turner channel series but I hope that a lot of the Max Originals can be rescued and move to TV for the sake of justifying them staying on the streaming platform and continued production.
I agree that they are out of touch. I can't believe they are folding it into Discovery. That just seems so stupid. I hope the plan backfires really terribly and force them to go back to the strategy that was making Max the best service (at least to me).
Man that would be a dream. I wonder how much their bonuses total. Always feels like these companies have such stupidly high bonuses for execs.
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I wish execs watched or cared about their content. I really feel like a lot of them don't.
Alternatively,
|OT| HBO Go? More like, HBO "No"
(Ok, would've worked better if they kept the old name...)
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