Discovery certainly has quantity over quality too. And Netflix has also plenty of quality.

To be honest, those two are way too in debt for that to be possible but a merger between the two would actually make a great service. Netflix has the viewers and international reach and it can absorb both sides of Discovery (they got plenty of their own reality TV stuff) and Warner (prestigious projects in TV/movies, big franchises like DC or Harry Potter). Hell they even are both interested in gaming (Netflix is publishing games and Warner too and they have studios).

A merged service between the two would basically be unstoppable.

Oh yeah it makes perfect sense, let's hope they treat it better than their other sitcoms (Great News being canceled was so sad). It's kind of weird how they had plenty of drama hits (or even comedy drama but not much in terms of pure sitcom comedies (they have some comedies hit like Cobra Kai, Never Have I Ever or Sex Education but they're quite different from the "classic sitcom").

> few outlets are making actual sitcoms with really funny people

I don't understand why not too. Like it's been widely reported than some of the biggest streaming "evergreen hits" are sitcoms like Friends, The Office, Community, The Big Bang Theory, How I met your Mother, Arrested Development, Malcolm, Parks and Rec and such. People just like to rewatch those, it's comfort TV and streaming is perfect for it.

You would think they'd try to make new ones.

I don't think they think that, it's just that their originals are just failing all the time because no one watches Peacock. So they probably give them 2 seasons as a baseline and since they didn't bring people after that, they cancel.

I mean it's not hard to understand why. Just watch the number of subscribers, that's the potential audience reached, much larger on Netflix

I mean it's on Peacock lol, of course it's going unnoticed, it's not even aired internationally I think.

Hopefully it finds a new audience on Netflix, the show is great

Shows about space have been done on cheap budgets decades ago (so you were paying more for less, effects wise). Star Trek, Stargate, Farscape, BSG and such. If that show is even half as good as those classics, first I'll be very surprised and I'd call that a win. It'll likely still cost more (even with inflation) and be way shittier though.

We don't even from what budget they reduced it, if it was huge it can still be big even with a big reduction (like going from 20M to 10M an episode, it's a drastic reduction of 10M per episode but it's still a lot left). It also simply depends the story they want to tell and we don't know that.

Not necessarily, budget doesn't mean quality, there is plenty of expensive shits and cheap gems on TV.

If that show is even half as good as Dr Who or Stargate SG-1, it'll be a win though. Budget doesn't make the quality of a show.

To be fair, since we didn't know the initial budget, it may not be bad news, if it was like 20M$ an episode (House of the Dragon budget), it's not worth that much (and really doesn't need that much, space stuff isn't that expensive, reminder that Star Trek, Stargate, Farscape and such managed it on pretty small budgets decades ago). It's also way too risky for a company so in debt to spend on a completely unproven property (only movie it got being a huge failure)

This is something happening in so many movies/TV that is always weird to me. Like do people ever do that in real life (never seen it)? You're two people, you're going to talk elsewhere, you're not making everyone else move out, lol.

They didn't, Amazon isn't producing the show, they're the distributor. Alcon probably did that hoping to continue but Amazon said no. Alcon can continue elsewhere (like they did before) but really the show isn't that popular sadly. Getting canceled 2 times isn't exactly the best sales pitch either I think

Yeah that's marketing BS for sure. Hell people seem to forget that Amazon wasn't even the one creating or owning that show. It was Alcon Entertainment with Syfy

To be fair, in this case, it wasn't voluntary. Aegon didn't want to marry her.

Whereas Rhaenyera and Daemon wanted to since she was a teen

Apple TV+ launched in 2019 like Disney+ (which had price increases way before)

Yeah they would have no problem but Apple isn't known for big acquisitions like that. Beats remains their biggest one IIRC.

Also, I don't think they're going all-in (or even half in) on video streaming, Apple TV+ is like a side hustle to them, it's not their main interest.

They could have gone for Warner when AT&T sold it but apparently had no interest (Comcast and Discovery were the only ones apparently and Comcast dropped it). Now that's it's with shitty reality TV with Discovery, I highly doubt they are more interested

> this is a gtreat tool/measure to gauge worldbuilding and character dev

Not really it's trying to compare a show with the standard for another show. It's not the same type of story and by the narrative itself, it had to advance to the point of the real story (which started in E9 really)

That's what happens if you want high production quality stuff. It's a good thing IMO

S1 of HotD is extremely low on spectacle (some people even complain about that), it's mostly about people talking and political plays

I mean considering they're the only profitable service and by far the most successful, yes it's going well lol.

They cancel more but they cancel failing shows without enough audience like every other service. They also simply produce way more so in absolute numbers they have more in every category. By the way, random numbers like you give are useless (also quality is entirely subjective so you can't say a show is bad or filler just because you don't like it, plenty of people will like it if it gets renewed)

Apple is a special case since they don't care for profit, they don't play the same game than the others (Amazon neither).

This may actually be a big problem for the show if people dropped it at those points. Netflix also looks to completion rate and where people stopped

The only ones I can see are Amazon or Apple because they can burn money without a problem due to their business model (their services have no intention to be profitable on themselves)

That would be wrong though, plenty of shows have been renewed pretty late by Netflix.

Lol if something like The Sandman failed because it didn't find enough audience for its cost, it has no chance on network TV. It's less viewers and they have less budget to spend on shows.

They also probably have the problem that anyone that wants Netflix has Netflix now or close to it and it's not a new show or two that will change that, at worst it changes the churn rate (people cancel a little later or come back earlier). That's why their growth have slowed, they're close to market saturation really.

As for advertising, that's why all the services are starting to do it.

Also yeah, The Sandman is expensive and didn't have enough viewers to justify its budget so it's a risk. Netflix has plenty of money but they also can't afford to run something at a loss completely, they're not Amazon or Apple (which don't play by the same rules than all the others btw, their business model shouldn't be compared)