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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9512313" data-attributes="member: 18">Amar Chadha-Patel is an absolute rock star, and the man needs to be a male lead in his own show. If you want more of him he's in the Decameron (Netflix), which is a weird show (unsurprisingly, given what it's based on) but fun. Hopefully he's getting lined up for something - he's more charismatic, a better actor and frankly, handsome than the vast majority of male leads we get on shows, who are a milquetoast bunch.This is correct, yes.It was very fashionable for a while between mid-2022 and mid-2023 to just start wildly deleting completed and often fairly-successful stuff from your streaming service's catalogue, so you didn't have to pay residuals etc. It started falling out of favour in 2024 particularly as it became clear that the savings per show were fairly tiny (but with a ridiculous enough purge you could make it look good on the balance sheet), and it's basically a trick you can only pull once, because future purges will inevitably be much, much smaller, and thus produce truly laughable savings. They particularly targeted a lot of recent shows, because the residuals (IIRC, and correct me if I'm wrong, Hollywood-adjacent people) are in a lot of cases higher in the first few years.Audiences also didn't like the deletions, but I suspect that was seen as a pretty minor issue, because those audiences are so used to cancellations that a lot of people, especially outside of the geek-o-sphere, still haven't realized some of these shows are actually gone, and won't until they try and rewatch them at a later date.</blockquote>

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