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koreth@lemm.ee 1 year agoI 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 1 year ago
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 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 1 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.