Why Netflix keeps cancelling your favourite shows | WIRED Explains

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Last year, sci-fi show Altered Carbon joined Sense8, The OA and Luke Cage in being axed from Netflix after just two seasons. What followed was the now-traditional furious fan campaign to save the series from an early death.
But while it’s sad for fans to see a show cut dramatically short, for Netflix, it comes down to the data. In this WIRED Explains, we explore the data metrics Netflix uses to decide whether to renew or axe a TV show.
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  • @lostpianist
    @lostpianist3 жыл бұрын

    Because they don’t respect their customers’ experiences.

  • @danjun7986

    @danjun7986

    Жыл бұрын

    Because they pay for everything unlike traditional networks

  • @tristavlog

    @tristavlog

    Жыл бұрын

    Deciding not to go bankrupt is not disrespecting the customers. I totally agree with their business model for tv shows renewals.

  • @FaintImpression

    @FaintImpression

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tristavlog I'm not convinced this strategy is the best financially. It's short sighted and will hurt them in the long run though. They should at least be doing what they did with Sense 8 and wrapping shows up with movies or special episodes. They're creating a weak back catalogue of unfinished shows and they're straining their relationship with customers. As more 3rd parties pull their content off the services Netflix will just be left with a library of mostly incomplete shows that aren't worth watching. They're setting themselves up for future failure

  • @mncdssctn9110

    @mncdssctn9110

    29 күн бұрын

    All that matters is whether the show makes enough money to be profitable. How much the people who do watch think it is, is not important. That being said, if they gave more shows a chance to find its audience, it’s certainly possible that it will be a hit later on.

  • @victoriap1561
    @victoriap15612 жыл бұрын

    The problem is that the catalog becomes weaker as you don't want to watch that show later on if it's incomplete

  • @LewisWalsh
    @LewisWalsh2 жыл бұрын

    I get it. But I wish when they axed a show they would make a feature-length final episode to tie things up.

  • @shmookins

    @shmookins

    2 жыл бұрын

    Blame the writers that gamble their viewers to land another season deal. Netflix gives the writers freedom. So the writers shouldn't leave shows deliberately in cliffhangers when they don't know if they will get another season deal or not. Writers can address this issue in multiple ways, but sadly some don't care enough for their own fans' experience.

  • @resarious6225

    @resarious6225

    5 ай бұрын

    @@shmookins see now reading this after finding out the creators of inside job were told they were gonna get at least two seasons, and then got their show axed after one really makes me upset :,)

  • @BettyBoolean
    @BettyBoolean2 жыл бұрын

    Jupiters Legacy was cancelled after a single season but it was within on a couple of weeks of launch. It was set up for more seasons so it seems the decision to cancel was made before viewer data had been collected? I question even the annoucement of the decision in this case, why did netflix feel the need to announce when the show hadn't even had a chance to earn some word of mouth? The announcement itself must have had a negative impact on people giving it a chance. Why watch a show thats going nowhere?

  • @fuckhq1933
    @fuckhq19333 жыл бұрын

    Yes and then I cancelled my Netflix subscription

  • @UnstableEvil

    @UnstableEvil

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good

  • @jayvhoncalma3458

    @jayvhoncalma3458

    Жыл бұрын

    They got Nae nae'd

  • @fluffyhamster550
    @fluffyhamster5503 жыл бұрын

    It’s really annoying, that we can’t see all the same things like in the US for example 🤬

  • @tanmayasahu5171

    @tanmayasahu5171

    2 жыл бұрын

    Use vpn

  • @kateb2643

    @kateb2643

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's a licensing thing for the most part

  • @bionicwoman9884

    @bionicwoman9884

    2 жыл бұрын

    Netflix is an American US company.

  • @pigizoid9924
    @pigizoid9924 Жыл бұрын

    Netflix cancels shows that take risks to create amazing new content, they cancel those shows so they can fall back into their comfortable money making shows that get high foot traffic by being bland and easy to observe while not actually being good, they just want another big mouth season

  • @limesquared
    @limesquared Жыл бұрын

    Two months is not enough time to decide if a show gets canceled. And what if hit shows like Dark and Stranger Things had been canceled after a year ? They would have absolutely been ruined. We need to go back to a show a week to give the shows a bigger chance.

  • @usafinland3919
    @usafinland39192 жыл бұрын

    I am getting very tired of Netflix in Finland, not only do they cancel good shows but are so slow to add new ones. Any advice on a alternative network besides HBO?

  • @danielgreen6302

    @danielgreen6302

    Жыл бұрын

    true I loved Norsemen it was fantastically funny. what a terrible loss, and that's just for starters.

  • @michielp1922

    @michielp1922

    Жыл бұрын

    pirate your series

  • @R3M5
    @R3M5 Жыл бұрын

    so many childhood shows just dissolved. i remember seeing one season of one of my favourite shows missing, kinda sad how netflix is slow to add shows but quick to delete them

  • @melb5996
    @melb59962 жыл бұрын

    Utter disregards for its customer base. Not going to get a penny from me anymore

  • @ryanartward
    @ryanartward Жыл бұрын

    At least Amazon had the decency to make a series final season instead of doing a tablecloth pull.

  • @pendaranroberts4350
    @pendaranroberts4350 Жыл бұрын

    If I like a show on Netflix it’s pretty much guaranteed to be canceled. I’m thinking of doing my own canceling. The latest show I loved is archive 81, which I think is fantastic. Better than American horror story. Cancelled! Pisses me off so much!

  • @Baslium

    @Baslium

    Жыл бұрын

    I love archive 81 and I feel it can become a cult hit, no ideas why Netflix will cancel it.

  • @danjun7986

    @danjun7986

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Baslium probably because not enough people were finishing the season

  • @Alkis05
    @Alkis053 жыл бұрын

    It used to be the case that series would last forever and gradually fizzle out. Than series finales were invented. I see a lot of shows that people say were cancelled when it actually had an ending. Sure, some like sense 8 and Marco Polo were truly cancelled, but a lot of shows, like queens gambit, were never intended to be long shows. Sometimes for the better. There is nothing worse than dragging a popular show just to milk it for money without actually any original idea on how to keep the story going. TV networks also have the habit of axing series way soon, Fox being the greatest offender. At least, if a series Fails on netflix it is not because it was allotted a bad timeslot or released episodes in the wrong order (* cough * Firefly * cough *)

  • @fidker
    @fidker Жыл бұрын

    Here after 1899 got cancelled prematurely, so basically they will continue normie shows no matter if it's bad and axe shows that challenges, take risks and actually break new grounds, thankfully they'll cancel my access to Netflix themselves by removing password sharing this year

  • @samratdey9486

    @samratdey9486

    Жыл бұрын

    That's what happens when blind algorithms wear down everything to the lowest common denominator, Netflix is killing art and creativity on TV and deserves to die.

  • @nicb.1411
    @nicb.14119 ай бұрын

    But now its gotten to the point where i refuse to watch a new series unless it is already finished. No point in filling my head with incomplete stories. Definitely not paying for that.

  • @mncdssctn9110

    @mncdssctn9110

    29 күн бұрын

    Truly a catch 22. I’m not so eager to start watching shows that have a major risk of getting cancelled, but if everybody thinks like that, it’s definetly getting cancelled.

  • @-atr0c_ty-
    @-atr0c_ty-2 жыл бұрын

    I frikin hate you Netflix, For fking cancel my favorite childhood cartoon for 1-4 seasons. 1-4 SEASONS. NETFLIX. And then you just what cancel a whole entire seasons for p0rn movies? Yeah, no thx Edit: sorry for raging..

  • @ChripaerPh4

    @ChripaerPh4

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't need to be sorry, I feel the same. My childhood show was removed as well, it was adventure times. What was yours?

  • @marianblas165
    @marianblas1653 жыл бұрын

    Save The OA #SaveTheOA

  • @pendaranroberts4350

    @pendaranroberts4350

    Жыл бұрын

    Another fantastic show cancelled. So angry!

  • @sir1junior
    @sir1junior2 жыл бұрын

    ALTERED CARBON sadly didn't get it's last and 3rd season.

  • @macberry4048
    @macberry40483 жыл бұрын

    On the other hand they drop a show all at once and you have to wait a year for the next season. Right now Disney is doing better, right after Wanda they put falcon and winter soldier

  • @johnc_
    @johnc_3 жыл бұрын

    82 million households watched at least 2 minutes of Bridgerton? Not watched all of it... Do the autoplay previews count towards those 82 million?

  • @applemontea
    @applemontea7 ай бұрын

    It's sad if the show is actually good, and some people just haven't realized or had the free time to watch it, and because the show's 28-day metric was simply trimmed not to produced in the future, then quietly sank and died slowly. just like WIRED Explains who stopped uploading new videos 2 years ago

  • @sophie600
    @sophie6002 жыл бұрын

    rip Sense8 :(

  • @kaior1

    @kaior1

    Жыл бұрын

    I KNOW RIGHT

  • @mncdssctn9110
    @mncdssctn911029 күн бұрын

    NCIS with its view number would probably been cancelled after 1-2 season in this day and age, later on it became the most popular drama show on television and is now on season 21, plus some successful spinoffs.

  • @CoolSlickGuywithbigschlong
    @CoolSlickGuywithbigschlong2 жыл бұрын

    Wished there had been a third season of The Punisher ...Got hooked to the characters and story

  • @rasmusdrongesen2721
    @rasmusdrongesen2721 Жыл бұрын

    Why have a netflix when most of the shows gets cancelled leaving with a shitty ending...

  • @cltr174
    @cltr174 Жыл бұрын

    The worst show they canceled for me was Marco Polo, they don't even delete it while its incomplete

  • @clauaome25

    @clauaome25

    Жыл бұрын

    Same. I really wanted to see how it ended

  • @B.Mindful
    @B.Mindful Жыл бұрын

    I'm heart broken about Half Bad getting canceled... 😭☹️😣

  • @Dariel517
    @Dariel517Ай бұрын

    I hate when Netflix remove seasons and add just new ones which I hate

  • @notarobot459
    @notarobot459 Жыл бұрын

    Netflix home of the cancelled shows?

  • @elmerfudd5193
    @elmerfudd51933 жыл бұрын

    It’s like when tv shows move to a different night and time......😮

  • @tonivoul1971
    @tonivoul1971 Жыл бұрын

    They dont say the show is canceled they just leave it there just new users thing it is a new show when it came from 2016 and it stopted makong episodes for some years

  • @mkmhouse
    @mkmhouse2 жыл бұрын

    Poor Anne with an E 😭😢

  • @SoAS26
    @SoAS263 жыл бұрын

    What about the patriot act ???

  • @suiyeethepinkunicorn7780
    @suiyeethepinkunicorn77802 жыл бұрын

    I wonder wtf did Netflix do to my anime

  • @shmookins
    @shmookins2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds fair. Thanks for the explanation.

  • @theonlybonsu
    @theonlybonsu3 жыл бұрын

    Why?....The 💰. (Saved u four minutes)

  • @wscamel226
    @wscamel226 Жыл бұрын

    But then why was I able to watch 6 seasons of certain something just recently but now there are only 5 seasons??? WHYYYYYYYYY? Y? Yellow

  • @petermartin1954
    @petermartin19542 жыл бұрын

    Watch Amazon prime

  • @GTBLF.2012Music
    @GTBLF.2012Music2 ай бұрын

    They also canceled my show Pokémon Horizons for no reason

  • @atte140
    @atte1407 ай бұрын

    My fav anime got deleted😭😭😭😭😭 its Black lagoon

  • @evamalezic2066
    @evamalezic206611 ай бұрын

    Why did The 100 just dissapear from netflix one day????????

  • @GrimReaper192
    @GrimReaper1922 ай бұрын

    This doesn’t explain why they are slow to cancel bad/unpopular shows

  • @aquilmoscicki6620
    @aquilmoscicki6620 Жыл бұрын

    They took of znation like why I didn’t finished it

  • @nofilter.906
    @nofilter.9068 ай бұрын

    I dont watch Netflix anymore ( I canceled it )....if a show you like doesn't have 53 BILLION VIEWERS!!,,, it's not making money,CANCEL IT!!!.....so I got tired of shows I like being canceled....I dont fcuk with Netflix anymore..

  • @hanniffydinn6019
    @hanniffydinn60193 жыл бұрын

    It’s simple they cancel after season 2 of all shows. 🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍

  • @enjoyyoursleep1
    @enjoyyoursleep12 жыл бұрын

    My netflix account is shut....

  • @youfool6383
    @youfool6383 Жыл бұрын

    this is why i stopped watching netflix

  • @pigizoid9924
    @pigizoid9924 Жыл бұрын

    Netflix just wants big faces for cheap prices

  • @Baslium
    @Baslium Жыл бұрын

    New show is bad and old show that I love got cancle.

  • @LucasTOrz
    @LucasTOrz2 жыл бұрын

    Is call HYPE

  • @ashleybellerose7104
    @ashleybellerose71045 ай бұрын

    Okay but they got rid of Shrek... just to bring it back

  • @LinkTheFusky
    @LinkTheFusky Жыл бұрын

    NETFLIX WHERE MY HERO ACEDAMIA SEASON 2 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @erich8347
    @erich83472 жыл бұрын

    Peep Show >

  • @DJVSTAR1
    @DJVSTAR12 жыл бұрын

    Bye bye Netflix

  • @TheAgentOfDeath
    @TheAgentOfDeath3 жыл бұрын

    .

  • @permafrost1030
    @permafrost10302 жыл бұрын

    i watched a video from him like 6 years ago and it showed him being injected with something and the title said "become a cyborg" and it literally look so weird

  • @cameronlewis9474
    @cameronlewis947411 ай бұрын

    I’m your 666th like

  • @Bird_Man2023
    @Bird_Man20232 жыл бұрын

    Netflix is overrated, VERY overrated.

  • @anonts5050
    @anonts505012 күн бұрын

    because blackrock pay them to keep doing DEI woke show ?

  • @slbumkim2925
    @slbumkim29252 жыл бұрын

    Being has a tendency to 'return' to clusters ='the nature of solidarity' -a desire for empathy -(Wave)-(yin) and also, Being has a tendency to 'exist' as individuals ='the nature of self-expension' -a desire for breed-(Particle)-(Yang) Likewise, humans have two elements. We must realize that we all have both left and right elements =Solidarity and Self reliance No one has only one element. so 'Sum' derived from 'two poles' , (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) To develop intellect and ethics by harmonizing the two, It is good to realize it and balance it properly But A few people polarized the crowd(political partisanship) without balancing themselves. And They stole only the sum, only the synthesis from the triangle composition. Now We all have to get out of this deceptive situation. This is not the time for us to hate each other. We have to track down those who have been manipulating us.

  • @peterpietrzak1253
    @peterpietrzak1253Ай бұрын

    Shows get taken off Netflix because their rights expired to them?

  • @JuanCarlosMontillaCorrea
    @JuanCarlosMontillaCorrea Жыл бұрын

    Or do not use Netflix.

  • @Therian_l0v3.kitttypower
    @Therian_l0v3.kitttypower4 ай бұрын

    Netflix is making me mad my fav show is going to leave😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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