Showtime Rubs Salt within the Wound by Instantly Eradicating Canceled Reveals From the Platform

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Audiences have realized some robust classes from streaming networks over the previous few years. Probably the most painful has been by no means to get too hooked up to a present in its first season, as even when it’s thought of a success, the assorted streaming giants gained’t hesitate to convey the cancellation hammer down.

However now Showtime has gone one step additional. They’re not merely canceling reveals after their first season, they’re scrubbing them from the platform altogether. This contains American Gigolo, Let the Proper One In, Kidding, Tremendous Pumped, On Turning into a God in Central Florida, and American Rust are all heading into the void. Poorly performing bought content material will meet the identical destiny, together with The Finish and Wakefield.

It’s possible you’ll be questioning why Showtime is deleting reveals it’s already paid for. In spite of everything, a small viewers continues to be an viewers. Properly, a few of these, like Let the Proper One In, are being shopped round by the rights holders to different networks, who’d presumably get the primary season included within the deal. Others could also be offered by Showtime to third-party consumers aiming to bolster their very own catalogs.

The bulk have disappeared for an altogether extra miserable cause. The Hollywood Reporter explains that deleting reveals from the service permits Showtime to take a tax write-down on them, with the bean counters calculating that they’ll make more cash from placing them within the digital archives than they’d ever generate in subscriber income.

We simply hope that none of those reveals find yourself misplaced for good. Most of those won’t ever land on bodily media, so we’re operating the danger of coming into a brand new darkish age of misplaced media as reveals and flicks are unexpectedly yanked away from viewers.