Streamers have been removing content from their platforms lately — and they’re canceling series after just one season. “It’s soul-crushing,” says one creator. “There is nothing we can do.”

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    1 year ago

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    Disney turned heads recently when it removed the sci-fi teen adventure Crater, a movie that reportedly cost $53 million to make.

    Bozdech is the editorial director at Common Sense Media which reviews content for kids (including Crater).

    When a writer works on a show that gets removed, “it’s soul-crushing,” says Zoe Marshall whose teen comedy Fantasy Football disappeared from Paramount+ despite an all-star cast and co-producers that included LeBron James’ company.

    “When you manage to get something actually made, it is a tremendous feather in your cap professionally,” says Marshall, "And people start to look at your work as references.

    A show can even become a hit and yet the actors and writers still don’t make any extra money, as The New Yorker recently explained in a deep dive about Orange Is the New Black.

    When Disney+ first launched, he said they thought the way to attract subscribers was, “to flood the digital shelves as much as possible… We realized that we made a lot of content that is not necessarily driving sub growth, and we’re getting much more surgical about what it is we make.”


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