Comment on "We Didn't Know It Was The End": Jonathan Frakes On Directing Star Trek Discovery Series Finale
Kerred@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From what I understand in television writing it was a constant struggle of “should we write a cliffhanger hoping it gets us renewed” to “we should have some closure in case we get cancelled”, since many writers had no idea what would happen.
FishInABarrel@kbin.social 11 months ago
Has ending on a cliff-hanger ever worked to get a show renewed?
passinglurker@startrek.website 11 months ago
ENT’s trip to 1944 between seasons 3 and 4. Or in other words what must be the writer’s “you made us make this temporal cold war cake and by koala we are gonna make you eat it” letter to the execs.
CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It kinda did with Sense8, due to overwhelming fan support for at least completing the story. Netflix caved and they produced a movie to wrap it up.
ClarkDoom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Twin Peaks but it took a couple decades lol
Vittelius@feddit.de 11 months ago
Depends on how you look at it.
I don’t think we know of a case where it convinced a studio executive, but then again we know very little about the reasons why some shows get renewed and some don’t.
We do know cases where ending on a cliffhanger helped drumm up enough fan engagement to reverse a cancellation (timeless on nbc is a recent(ish) example for that)