CloakerJosh t1_j5syydb wrote on January 25, 2023 at 10:09 AM

Reply to comment by ricnilotra in Ted Sarandos says that Netflix has “never canceled a successful show” by avery5712

Gonna ignore some of the obvious here and just say:

I promise you that if they determined they'd make more money by keeping it on than the supposed tax write-off they'd get to benefit from by cancelling it - they wouldn't have cancelled it.

ricnilotra t1_j5t0awv wrote on January 25, 2023 at 10:28 AM

HBO canceled a fully filmed and edited Batgirl film. You are a moron.

CloakerJosh t1_j5t0q4i wrote on January 25, 2023 at 10:34 AM

Right, of course. Sorry.

It's because they hate money, right? How stupid of me.

Has nothing at all to do with the luke-warm test audience reception, or the fact that they determined based on their analysis that they'd get a better fiscal gain by writing it off than the money it would have made them by them releasing it commercially.

I'm the moron. Everyone is wrong except you, you see The Matrix. Share some red pills with the rest of us so we can be as enlightened, please.

SuDragon2k3 t1_j5tgodi wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:26 PM

Blazing Saddles. a Mell Brooks tour de force absurdist deconstruction of the western genre. Warner Brothers wanted to hold on to the IP rights, which reverted to Brooks six months after release unless something was made of them.

So WB made Black Bart, a TV pilot continuing the adventures from the movie. It was shown on TV, once. A not unusual story of the time (1974) which appeared to conclude in a usual manner, pilot then shrug and move on when it doesn't gain traction.

What is unusual is the that they apparently filmed the rest of the season, put it in the cans (1974. Filming was done on film, edited on film then converted for broadcast) and then locked away. According to some sources they made four seasons of it. (Some old concept called syndication I believe.)

Nobody outside 70's Warner Brothers has ever seen it.

Was this cheaper than getting the lawyers to fix the contract with Brooks?

Was someone getting the really good cocaine to keep it going?

What the actual f*** was going on in Hollywood at the time they could keep an entire production team making this when they knew it wasn't going to be released?

What if it was actually a decent comic-western?

ricnilotra t1_j5t0us6 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 10:36 AM

You are a moron for coming up with excuses for something that is flat out proven. Die mad