As KAOS is cancelled, joining The Acolyte, Lockwood & Co, and The Midnight Club on the streaming scrapheap, Ben Travis writes on why audiences can't keep up with streaming TV.
Sp this is basically about KAOS, the Greek gods show that was canned a few weeks after it premiered because people weren’t watching it enough I guess.
You might say it seems a bit early to can a show when people haven’t gotten around to it yet. Lots of people rotate between streaming services, rather than maintaining each subscription year-in and year-out.
I think this might be the problem though. Netflix don’t like us only paying them 1/3 of the time or whatever. We’re going to backlog their shows? Well then fuck us; we can’t have nice things then.
No Netflix. Fuck you. Nothing you do is that important to me.
They completely ignore the long tail benefits of building up a huge catalog. The streaming service with the biggest ‘vault’ wins, and yet they only seem to care about stuff actively in production.
Cancelling a story driven show early on not only pisses off fans, it effectively kills the whole value of the show for late adopters. Why would I start a show I know gets cancelled in season 2? If it had finished, people would work their way through the backlog. Owning a library of nothing but half finished shows is worse than useless for most people and further encourages people to cancel as soon as whatever current show they watch stops airing instead of sticking around to catch up on something else.
It’s odd that they want us to watch these shows right away. Streaming doesn’t work like that. Wife and I watch an episode, maybe 2 of a show each night. So it takes us weeks to get through a show season. So we have a list of shows to watch. We will watch a show months after it’s been out.
When Stranger Things was a big immediate hit that people binged it broke Netflix. They stopped trying to be HBO and instead treated each show like the lever of a big slot machine.
Sp this is basically about KAOS, the Greek gods show that was canned a few weeks after it premiered because people weren’t watching it enough I guess.
You might say it seems a bit early to can a show when people haven’t gotten around to it yet. Lots of people rotate between streaming services, rather than maintaining each subscription year-in and year-out.
I think this might be the problem though. Netflix don’t like us only paying them 1/3 of the time or whatever. We’re going to backlog their shows? Well then fuck us; we can’t have nice things then.
No Netflix. Fuck you. Nothing you do is that important to me.
They completely ignore the long tail benefits of building up a huge catalog. The streaming service with the biggest ‘vault’ wins, and yet they only seem to care about stuff actively in production.
Cancelling a story driven show early on not only pisses off fans, it effectively kills the whole value of the show for late adopters. Why would I start a show I know gets cancelled in season 2? If it had finished, people would work their way through the backlog. Owning a library of nothing but half finished shows is worse than useless for most people and further encourages people to cancel as soon as whatever current show they watch stops airing instead of sticking around to catch up on something else.
It’s odd that they want us to watch these shows right away. Streaming doesn’t work like that. Wife and I watch an episode, maybe 2 of a show each night. So it takes us weeks to get through a show season. So we have a list of shows to watch. We will watch a show months after it’s been out.
When Stranger Things was a big immediate hit that people binged it broke Netflix. They stopped trying to be HBO and instead treated each show like the lever of a big slot machine.