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Comment on Why has it became usual business for shows people like getting canceled after one season? They don't even have time to flesh out a decent story? Why not let them have at least 3?

justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

As I recall, viewers typically go down as the show goes on. If its got a bad viewership, there’s not a great reason to keep pumping money into it when you can put that money into something new that might do much better.

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Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yea but look at the greats or semi greats they gave a shot Game of Thrones, The Wire, Dexter, OZ, L and O (all of them), Yellowstone. Studio’s went in blindly and took a chance.

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- justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’m not looking up numbers right now but didn’t all of those have strong first seasons, in terms of viewers?
  
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  - zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If this article from Variety is to be believed, Game of Thrones experienced viewer growth each season.
    
    variety.com/…/euphoria-season-2-finale-ratings-12…
    
    It did start strong, almost 10 million viewers is great, but the final season apparently had roughly 5x as many.
    
    The article does indicate that this is unusually strong, though. I’d probably credit that to Game of Thrones becoming a cultural sensation. People became interested the more they heard other people talk about it. It bled into “normie” spaces instead of staying niche.
    
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- schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You think Law & Order (all of them) are networks “taking a chance”?
  
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