Netflix CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters defend the cancellation of several of our favorite series.
The CEOs of Netflix have defended themselves against the constant reproaches of fans on social networks before the cancellation policy of your series.
The hashtag “#CancelNetflix” has become quite popular these first days of 2023 after the announcements of Cancellation of series like ‘1899’, ‘Top Secrets’ or ‘The Warrior Nun’, programs that had tens of thousands of followers around the world. However, the CEOs of Netflix Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters have defended the company’s position stating that “hit Netflix series never get canceled“.
“Many of these shows were well-intentioned, but they were targeting a very small audience with a very large budget.“, Sarandos recently told Bloomberg. “The key is that you have to be able to speak to a small audience on a small budget and to a large audience on a large budget. If you do it right, you can do it forever.”
The big bosses of Netflix give as an example to ‘The game of the squid’, a series that exceeded all expectations by crossing borders at unexpected speed. “It’s very rare for a show like Korea’s ‘Squid Game’ to be as global as it was,” she said. “Within 30 hours, the whole world was watching ‘The Squid Game’ with hardly any promotion.Added Peters: “We’re starting to make ‘The Squid Game’ not something unusual, but basically something that happens literally every week.”
Therefore, the justification for cancellations as ‘1899’ is that, although it did reach a large audience, its budget higher than the audiences obtained. The anger of the fans also occurs because several of the recently canceled series had been announced as renewed a few months (or days) beforeas was the case with ‘Top Secrets’.
In 2022 we suffered the hack to series like ‘The Midnight Club’, ‘Destination: The Winx Saga’, ‘The OA’, and ‘Santa Clarita Diet‘, and 2023 has started along the same paths, to which should be added the new policy of not sharing accounts, the increase in the price of subscriptions, the “cheap” subscription with ads… 2023 is going to be a difficult and decisive year for the future of the most popular streaming company (for now) on the planet.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
