“We’ve never canceled a hit show,” says the Netflix co-director of the controversial series

After the great controversy generated by some of the most popular series on Netflix being canceled at any moment, the co-director of the company, Ted Sarandos, responds strongly to this and ensures that none of these shows have achieved success enough audience to be called “successful”.

Series such as ‘1899’, ‘Warrior Nun’, ‘The Midnight Club’, ‘Destiny: The Winx Saga’, ‘Desparejado’, among others, have been canceled by Netflix over the last year, causing a wave of criticism on social media regarding the decisions the company makes and based on what it does to define a successful or unsuccessful production.

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandossaid, “We’ve never canceled a successful show,” making it definitively clear that all shows that have been forgotten are because they failed to achieve success despite being in the top 10 most watched.

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A lot of these shows were well-intentioned, but they were targeting very small audiences with a very big budget,” Sarandos said.

The do-CEO of Netflix explained that “The key (of the series) is that it must be able to speak to a small audience with a small budget and a large audience with a big budget” referring to a monetary issue such as the main reason for such cancellations. And he adds, “If you do it right, you can do it forever.”

The series canceled by Netflix in 2022 have shown that it is not enough to achieve top 10 success during the first few days of release if from first the production has stats to achieve based on its level of monetary budget, so this will continue to happen until new releases reach the numbers required.

Netflix could cancel more hits

With this official statement from the company’s co-CEO, it becomes clear that Netflix will have no qualms about continuing to cancel popular series in the future, regardless of the movements they will make on social networks as in the case of “Warrior Nun” or what critics say about it as in the case of “1899” from the creators of “DARK”.

On the other hand, it is clear that Netflix does not consider a successful production, unless its scale is necessary to exceed the momentary investment and exceed the expectation, otherwise any show could be canceled and sent to the department of oblivion. just like it happened. . with great titles loved by subscribers.