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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9600548" data-attributes="member: 18">They've cancelled an awfully large number over the years.No, and I think it's a little strange that you're carrying water for them here, as it appears to be untrue.We don't know the exact viewing figures, but based on all the information we do have (like shows going into and staying in the top 10), a lot of shows they've cancelled have been pretty widely watched, probably doing numbers other networks would kill for. Certainly better than a lot of shows that survive.But that's not how Netflix operates - unless shows are at least one of:A) Extremely, staggeringly cheap (this has saved a fair few shows, esp. reality ones, to be fair).B) Doing insane numbers.C) Favoured by a particular Netflix exec (sometimes even for genuinely "corrupt" reasons, like the Netflix doco exec getting multiple seasons for his conspiracy theorist dad's show)They usually get cancelled after 1-2 seasons, and then Netflix just uses the money to do another show, because what they're really shooting for is another Stranger Things or The Crown (but more the former). A reason to specifically sub to Netflix. I think they've been worse at than they wish they were. And I think part of the reason they're not great at it is that they cancel shows so rapidly.Shadow and Bone, for example, appeared to be doing very well, spending quite a bit of time in the top 10 in America and much of Europe (and indeed being #1 for quite a while, for both seasons), and Netflix had all but promised it an S3, but then bam, axed. I'm kind of expecting The Diplomat (the only good "current" Netflix show I can think of) to be next.</blockquote>

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