Netflix has cancelled its Neil Patrick Harris-led comedy series “Uncoupled” after just one eight-episode season which launched back in July last year. Tuc Watkins, Tisha Campbell, Brooks Ashmanskas, Emerson Brooks, and Marcia Gay Harden co-starred in the film which only cracked Netflix’s Top 10 for one week.
Hailing from creators Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman, Harris starred as a man whose husband blindsides him by walking out the door after 17 years. Overnight, Michael has to confront suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-forties in New York City.
That’s not the only Netflix cancellation today, either. The streaming giant has swung the axe on the animated series “Dead End: Paranormal Park” after two seasons which launched in June and October last year, respectively.
The series was based on Hamish Steele’s horror-comedy graphic novels “DeadEndia” and follows the adventures of two teens who end up as security guards of a local theme park haunted house that’s actually haunted by real supernatural forces.
The production had assembled a writer’s room for season three with scripts, designs and outlines ready to go with the plan originally to be that the third season would be the last with a proper send-off for the characters. That won’t happen now.
The cancellations come as Forbes recently published a report revealing that one major metric helping Netflix determine whether to renew or cancel a series is that of a show’s completion rate – what per cent of a show’s audience actually finishes the show.
This is why shows that may have ranked high in terms of viewership, like “Resident Evil” and “First Kill” weren’t renewed – both had completion rates under 50% (around 44-45% to be precise), suggesting the audience didn’t particularly like what they saw.
On the other hand, shows like “The Lincoln Lawyer” (56%), “Arcane” (60%), “Love Death and Robots” (67%), “Heartstopper” (73%) and especially “Squid Game” (87%) all scored renewals. It also explains the recent “1899” axing, as the show reportedly had a dismal 32% completion rate, according to third-party sources.
Source: TV Line
