New Report Reveals How and Why TV Shows Are Dying
Data intelligence company Luminate released a 32-page report digging into the wave of canceled TV shows from streaming, broadcast, and cable in recent years. Paramount’s 38% in 2023, or 49% in 2024 compared to 62% from Prime Video.) And while Netflix’s cancellation numbers have gone up and down in this four-year period, there’s a cheat in that some shows are quietly ended or never renewed. “Excluding planned endings, which may or may not be voluntary from the series’ creators, about 41% of Netflix’s U.S. slate in 2025 was not renewed, versus only 11% that was canceled outright,” wrote Luminate.
- ▪Data intelligence company Luminate released a 32-page report digging into the wave of canceled TV shows from streaming, broadcast, and cable in recent years.
- ▪Paramount’s 38% in 2023, or 49% in 2024 compared to 62% from Prime Video.) And while Netflix’s cancellation numbers have gone up and down in this four-year period, there’s a cheat in that some shows are quietly ended or never renewed.
- ▪“Excluding planned endings, which may or may not be voluntary from the series’ creators, about 41% of Netflix’s U.S. slate in 2025 was not renewed, versus only 11% that was canceled outright,” wrote Luminate.
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Data intelligence company Luminate released a 32-page report digging into the wave of canceled TV shows from streaming, broadcast, and cable in recent years. Starting mainly in 2022 and ending in 2025, one of the report’s first interesting pieces of data concerns Netflix: notorious for killing shows, it turns out the streamer’s renewed nearly (or more than) 50% of its scripted and unscripted works in this research period, either surpassing or being not far behind competition like Prime Video or Paramount, depending on the year. (For example: a 57% renewal rate vs.
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