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“#Why So Many Netflix Shows Have Only One Season<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Netflix just cleaned house again, canceling the comedies The Crew<\/em>, Country Comfort<\/em>, Bonding<\/em> and Mr. Iglesias<\/em> in one fell swoop, with the first two ending after only one season. And in the last two months, the streaming giant also axed freshman series<\/a> The Irregulars<\/em>, Jupiter\u2019s Legacy<\/em>, Grand Army<\/em> and Dad Stop Embarrassing Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Netflix turnover has some viewers streaming<\/em> mad. \u201cMan, Netflix makes these great shows and cancels them after one season,\u201d one tweeted<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another Twitter<\/a> user wrote<\/a>, \u201cNetflix needs to stop making shows that it never promotes and then cancels after one season because it got no exposure\u2026 Getting me emotionally invested in canceled shows and for what<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Powers That Be at Netflix are aware of the criticism. Speaking at last November\u2019s Paley International Council Summit with Netflix global TV head Bela Bajaria, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos hit back at claims that the streamer is disproportionately cancel-happ<\/a>y. Per Deadline<\/a><\/em>, Sarandos countered that it\u2019s disproportionately big news<\/a> when Netflix gives a show the heave-ho.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Mr. Iglesias\u2019 (Adam Rose\/Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And Bajaria argued that Netflix\u2019s renew-cancel ratio is similar to those of the company\u2019s competitors. \u201cIf you look at [second seasons] and more, we actually have a renewal rate of 67 percent, which is industry standard,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In fact, that renewal rate is probably better than broadcast networks can boast: The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> research showed a 58.2 percent failure rate for the broadcast networks\u2019 new scripted shows from the 10 television seasons between 2009 and 2019.<\/p>\n

Bajaria also contended that for all the Netflix cancellations that make the news, there are way more renewals that go underreported: \u201cWe also do make a large amount of first season shows, which sometimes feels that we have more first-season cancellations, but if you look at the renewal rate, it\u2019s really strong. \u2026 We\u2019re always going to have a mix [of shows] that are great to be told in a limited series form and shows that go on for multiple seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus, as Bajaria explained, other platforms and networks order pilot episodes of their shows\u2014and then cancel many of the projects at the pilot stage, before those stories even reach viewers\u2019 TV sets. \u201cWe order straight to series in the first [place], rather than make pilots, which results sometimes in more Season 1 cancellations,\u201d she said. \u201cEven with that, I still believe a season order is still a better creative expression of a writer\u2019s idea, so I still think that\u2019s the right model for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018Bonding\u2019 (Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For his part, Sarandos argued that we could redefine television success and move away from the 100-episode benchmark\u2014which historically has been the threshold for a TV series to be sold for syndication. \u201cThat was the goal, and anything that didn\u2019t get to 100 episodes or past the four seasons didn\u2019t feel like a success. Whereas I think many shows can be a success for being exactly what they are, and you could tell that story in two seasons or one season or five seasons,\u201d he reflected. \u201cI think it gets talked about so much because it\u2019s measured against the old way of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, the Netflix shows that are lucky enough to earn a second season are often not so lucky as to earn a third season. (IGN<\/a><\/em> recently quipped that with Netflix Originals, \u201cit\u2019s either one-and-done or two-and-shoo.\u201d) Wired UK<\/a><\/em> recent did a deep dive into the trend of Season 2 cancellations, after shows like Altered Carbon<\/em>, Sense8<\/em>, The OA<\/em> and Luke Cage<\/em> suffered that fate. As the magazine pointed out, Netflix is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to viewership ratings, but former Netflix original content veep Cindy Holland did tell reporters in 2018 that viewership has to \u201cjustify the cost of the series\u201d if that series is to be renewed.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The Crew\u2019 (Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And Netflix explained some of its viewership metrics in a 2019 letter to the U.K. Parliament\u2019s Communications and Digital Committee<\/a>, saying over a title\u2019s first seven days and first 28 days on the platform, the company tallies the \u201cstarters,\u201d aka the households that watch two minutes of a film or one episode, and the \u201ccompleters,\u201d those that watch 90 percent of a film or a TV season.<\/p>\n

These metrics rationales likely come as little comfort to any fan of Everything Sucks<\/em>, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance<\/em>, Teenage Bounty Hunters<\/em> or any of the other TV shows Netflix canceled after just one season. But the company\u2019s business-minded calculations might also be short-sighted, especially when you consider all the TV shows that started slow but gained audiences and acclaim as they progressed. We\u2019ll never know if the umpteen one-and-done Netflix shows could have built that kind of momentum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n