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The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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Streamers have been removing content from their platforms lately — and they're canceling series after just one season. "It's soul-crushing," says one creator. "There is nothing we can do."

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[–] cassetti@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think if you were to chart the number of single season series over the years, you'd likely find that streaming media has exponentially more cancelled shows after one series because it's easier for them to monitor engagement of the series by viewers and cut the fat when they think a show won't succeed based on the metric data they have.

Can you imagine shows like Stargate SG1? They most likely would have been cancelled after season1 because the viewer count wasn't there at the start of the series.

[–] koreth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually did run some numbers on this at one point and found that the cancellation rate on network shows has ranged from 30-50% for the last 70 years, with the average number of seasons hovering just under 2. Reddit post with graphs and sources.

Running the same numbers for streaming services is trickier, and I couldn't figure out a reliable way to get a good data set to analyze. But even so, the numbers for broadcast TV are high enough that it would be numerically impossible for streaming services to, say, be 3 times more likely to cancel a show after one season.

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, so would you say the ratios were similar between streaming and non-streaming networks?

I have reddit blocked at the router level so I can't view anything on that site (still boycotting the company lol)

[–] koreth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My intuition is that it's probably in about the same range as the broadcast networks, but I have no numbers to back that up.

I don't think it can be significantly higher or lower: if the cancellation rate were significantly lower, "streaming services always cancel after one season" wouldn't have caught on as a perception, and if it were significantly higher, it wouldn't be as easy to find multi-season streaming shows as it currently is. But is it slightly higher or lower? I have no idea.