Netflix has just cancelled Santa Clarita Diet, this article goes some way towards explaining why

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‘Feeling The Churn: Why Netflix Cancels Shows After A Couple Of Seasons & Why They Can’t Move To New Homes”Honestly they’re just shooting themselves in the foot because I was planning on checking Santa Clarita Diet out after season 3 seemed to get really great reviews, and I heard people on my flist were really enjoying it, but hearing that it has

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Yeah I heard that come up a lot with their Marvel shows, that they wanted to cut the episode order down from 13 to 10. They really don’t seem to want to have too much of one show at all, even though their own data should tell them that the long-running shows are doing far better for them than Netflix originals...

The whole thing sucks because Netflix apparently make it even harder for other platforms to pick up their shows, they are kicking off now about how Disney has better not even have discussions on the Marvel shows before the two years are up, and also refused to let one of their cancelled comedy shows go to CBS, even though Netflix has picked up enough of other network shows themselves! It just seems like a show has no chance though if it’s Netflix that has cancelled it, and Netflix used to be the place we relied on to save cancelled shows :( I remember that coming up with their deal with the CW as well, that Netflix considered it important for the shows to be fully concluded and that was why Nikita had an extra shortened season, because they didn’t want to leave a story half finished. Sadly they really seem to have done an about face on that since for some reason

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They also get airing shows from other networks and stop updating them after a while. There are a lot of shows that I used to watch before I got caught pirating that they do have, but they only have the beginning, not the recent seasons, so it's useless to me.