One of the main things Netflix brings to Hollywood is autonomy away from the financially complicated and flabby studio system.Īs an independent producer, they’ve been able to make complex financial decisions more freely, as they don’t have the longlasting, legally binding partnerships with entities like the Writers Guild of America, The City of Los Angeles, or SAG-AFTRA (that’s the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, if you’re nasty). We’ve seen for a while that Netflix has been polishing its cancellation axe, systematically chopping well-loved shows such as Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and One Day at a Time from the platform for fiduciary reasons. Shadowhunters was apparently cancelled because Freeform could no longer “make the economics work” after Netflix severed its relationship with the German production company, Constantin Film.
Today we’re looking into the potential ways Netflix could save our show and the activist steps we can take to make the choice easy for them. Within and outside the fandom over the past few months, there’s been a lot of speculation about how Netflix might save Shadowhunters. Shadowhunters is smart, witty, and suspenseful, and has a diverse set of unique characters (with plenty of LGBTQI representation), making it a one-of-a-kind show that doesn’t deserve cancellation. Our conservative days are over – let’s join together to take activist measures to keep the stories we need on our screens. So we decided to up the ante and work every day to save our shows.
We started working to raise awareness of the shows that need saving with our #SaveSaturdays campaign – but desperate times call for desperate measures. We’re standing with these epic shows that were gone but not forgotten in hopes of saving the shows we know deserve a second chance on the right network. Seemingly safe in the knowledge that our favorite shows had secure second homes on streaming sites like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, cancellation season was just as harsh as ever, with many examples of stellar TV getting cut from networks. Last year was especially brutal for television fans and bingewatchers. By: Daisy Franklin ‘Shadowhunters’ season 4: The Netflix play
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