Netflix’s Ted Sarandos defends decision to cancel ‘The Get Down’ and Sense8’

For fans of the shows The Get Down and Sense8, the recent news that Netflix canceled them is a devastating blow. And even with clamor from fans to get the shows renewed, it looks like the streaming service isn’t changing its mind. According to the company’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, they had to cancel the shows because the cost of production wasn’t being justified by its viewership. According to The Wrap’s story on Sarandos’ statement, the chief content officer said, “We couldn’t support those economics. If you put all your money into something that a very few people are watching, eventually you’ll have nothing for people to watch. … But relative to what it cost to make [The Get Down], we couldn’t put together enough audience to support those economics. … Similarly, the audience [for Sense8] was very passionate but just not large enough to support the economics of something that big, even in our platform.”

Netflix isn’t one to release its viewership data but it’s the first time Netflix has announced such high-profile cancellations. And this isn’t the end. CEO Reed Hasting said recently, we could expect a higher cancel rate for the service’s original series in the future—which ones this will be we don’t know yet.

Source: Screen Rant

Netflix original ‘The Get Down’ gets canceled after a season

Hearing a Netflix show gets canceled isn’t a common occurrence. But it seems the Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down is going in that direction. It seems the series can’t justify the extremely high price tag it requires to make an episode. The streaming service pulls the plug on the hip-hop history show a month after the second part of the first season dropped on its platform. But it seems expense isn’t the only issue with the show. Luhrmann shared a post on Facebook writing about how he had to put off a film commitment in order to work on The Get Down and now he can’t postpone it any longer. You can read the full post here.

Source: A.V. Club

When do we get hooked on Netflix?

Netflix just released the latest set of "hooked" episodes of some of the most popular series streaming on the service. You know, that one particular episode that completely SUCKS YOU IN and makes you want to continue watching. It's that one episode that has kept 70% of viewers watching and completing the season. However, in doing reseach of our viewing habits, Netflix also discovered that this isn't just an observation of us here in Canada but it's pretty universal.  Canadian viewers were pretty much in-line with global hooked episodes for a number of series. 

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