Posted on 05/01/2022 2:57:20 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
As consumers dump their Netflix subscriptions, the far-left streamer is reportedly stopping the production of two more animated kids’ series.
Dino Daycare, created by Jeff King, and the South Asian-inspired adventure Boons and Curses, created by Jaydeep Hasrajani, will not move forward at the streaming giant, according to a report by the Hollywood Reporter.
Dino Daycare was to feature a 6-year-old boy who helps out at a nursery for baby dinosaurs in a world where dinosaurs never went extinct. Boons and Curses was to center around a young warrior — who is made of butter due to a curse — and who takes on an evil ruler.
The two kids series are not the first shows to be canceled at Netflix amid a major loss of subscribers. Planned animated series based on Jeff Smith’s popular comic book series Bone and Roald Dahl’s novel The Twits have also been canceled.
Moreover, an upcoming series based on Lauren Faust’s Toil and Trouble will also not move forward.
The shows being axed at Netflix arrive amid consumers canceling their streaming services to save money amid soaring inflation. Netflix has also suffered its first net subscriber loss in more than a decade.
The streamer is experiencing a crisis in employee morale following a recent report that it lost 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter. Netflix expects to lose a staggering 2 million more in the months ahead. On Thursday, Netflix laid off staffers at its in-house fan site Tudum.
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We liked “Puffin Rock,” one of Netflix’s first original cartoon series. All the animals had darling little British (and colonial) accents.
Woke garbage for the most part.
One was being produced by Me-gyn Markle.
I had a British colleague confide in me, that across the pond they refer to us Yanks as “colonists.”
I would go back to watching if they would.
But the Harkles still have a nine figure gig...?
I keep reading in celebrity blinds alluding to that Netflix was just a medium to launder money for the billionaire set and wasn’t really meant to be anything other than a front to that end.
Elton John’s husband is involved. They have quite a few connections. It will be interesting to see if it gets off the ground somewhere else.
Not enough Pervert subscribers to keep making it ?
Even my wife, who is Native American, couldn’t help but let out a “WTF!” When we saw that one. Spoon fed woke crapfest.
“Oh yea...every blonde female is with a Black guy. Try something else.”
You mean like the commercials on regular TV?
They serve puffin in Iceland.
I did not partake…
Netflix was a lot better when they showed actual movies instead of it being 95% of their original content. That’s why I really prefer Prime now. The original content on these streaming platforms always sucks.
Just fire the Obamas and friends and you’ll have lots on money ,LOL
It seems the life time for the next big thing is getting shorter and shorter. Netflix had a great idea with it’s DVD rentals and then it went streaming and became too successful as the owner of the content saw what they were doing and took back their product.
Some of the best content on Youtube is created by “amateurs” with low overhead.
Hollywood should not ask for whom the bells toll, because the toll is for them (if they don’t change their way).
Every business has a core competence. Rare exceptions excluded, if they veer from that core, they die.
Netflix’s core competence is “feature film library”. Customers expected them to have darned near every movie ever made, but for latest releases (ex.: “in theaters”) and special distributions (ex.: Criterion). That’s why customers signed up; viewers didn’t care who made it, just that it was available on demand for a flat monthly rate.
Movie licensing rights are a nightmare. Getting and keeping content in-service was surely hard expensive work.
Competing services were relatively easy to create. Anyone who could land licensing rights could produce a competing library - likely with different content per those rights.
Like several competitors (Amazon, Hulu, Apple, etc) they started producing Netflix Exclusive content, to attract viewers and keep them via content simply unavailable anywhere else. This sorta works up to a point. That point isn’t good enough to stay afloat.
Exclusive content has a distinct difference from regular independent-studio feel: movies produced by streaming services have a weirdly neutral or narrative feel unlike other major studios. Netflix Exclusives (and likewise the others) either want to not upset viewers (lest they just cancel, as many did over that borderline kiddie porn movie), or indulge a sociopolitical message few viewers will tolerate (ex.: the non-sequitur lesbian scenes in the Philip K Dick series). Well-funded and well-made, they still just feel...wrong.
Many viewers will pointedly avoid such exclusive content precisely because it’s exclusive.
By attempting to pivot to “exclusive” content, Netflix shifts their brand to content few actually seek, rather than the long-tail library everyone wants.
And customers decide to go elsewhere for the content Netflix doesn’t have, capital having been burned on movies few wanted.
Netflix was kinda cool when Blockbuster was a thing too
I would order Dvds, rip and send back the same day.
The selection was far better back then.
Laundering money for the “Lavendar Mafia”?
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