As we step into a global recession, more of us will be watching our direct debits than ever before – and £8.99 a month (packages start at £5.99 for standard definition – only suitable for those living in 2002 – before rising to £11.99 for a premium subscription) is already a bit steep. A small percentage of angry GLOW fans will cancel their subscription in protest (but most won’t bother) and whatever new show gets made instead will hook in a whole new load of subscribers.įor most people, money is the biggest worry. Sink that money into a new show instead and they can keep the never-ending pipeline flowing. The official word on GLOW’s cancellation is that COVID-19 is to blame – with Netflix saying the virus “makes shooting this physically intimate show with its large ensemble cast especially challenging.” If they were being more honest, they might pinpoint those “challenges” to the extra financial cost associated with all the safety protocols needed on any new TV and movie set – with Netflix looking at their budget books and weighing the cost of a few bottles of hand sanitiser against the hundreds of thousands needed to keep a mid-performing show running after three mildly-successful seasons. Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini as Sterling and Blair Wesley in ‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’. Since nothing is more attractive to non-subscribers than the idea of watching something they can’t see anywhere else, the more new shows added every month, the more new subscribers are likely to sign up. Compared to wherever it’s heading next, the company is still very much in its infancy, still concentrating on growing its subscription base – presumably until everyone in the world is paying them at least £5.99 a month. Started in 1997 by two Silicon Valley geeks with a mail-out DVD rental idea, Netflix grew up quickly until it was able to make enough money to finance its own movies. It might sound like an odd business model, but it actually used to make a lot of sense. You can sign an online petition to try and save your favourite show (over 13,000 people are begging the company to bring GLOW back already) but it probably won’t do much good – Netflix have made it clear that they really aren’t bothered about keeping long-running shows clogging up their catalogue. Basically, if you’re not watching Stranger Things or The Crown, don’t get too attached. There are already rumours flying around about The Witcher. This month, Away, GLOW and Teenage Bounty Hunters have all been cancelled – joining a growing list of beloved Netflix shows that never made it past three seasons including The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance, Tuca & Bertie, The Punisher, Altered Carbon, Sense8, Jessica Jones, The OA, Santa Clarita Diet and Messiah. Somewhere between starting out as the lovable underdog that took on the movie studios, green-lit all the best indie movies and made their own flavour of Ben & Jerry’s, Netflix became a $33billion mega-corporation that kills off cinemas and stamps all over everyone’s favourite TV shows.
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