lightsongtheold t1_iu1y39h wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:15 PM

Reply to comment by filthysize in Peacock’s ‘Girls5eva’ Renewed for Season 3 — at Netflix by SanderSo47

Yeah…but those shows had built in audiences who loved watching them from their glory days on broadcast. Girls5Eva was a show nobody watched on Peacock (a service practically nobody subscribes to!) so it is a very different proposition. Netflix will have to sell this show like it is a brand new show. They can do it as they did just as much with You and Cobra Kai.

I’ll definitely be interested to see if Girls5Eva can breakout on Netflix. I’d not bet on it as new sitcoms generally bomb on Netflix. Very rarely you get a Cobra Kai or Emily in Paris that becomes a big hit. The list of misses is very large.

Bronco4bay t1_iu2nb17 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:27 AM

The list of misses for ALL sitcoms is very large.

lightsongtheold t1_iu2nkvf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:30 AM

Comedy in general. Only HBO&HBO Max and the Hulu/FX teams seem to be having any consistent success with comedy. Everybody else either has an ultra high cancellation rate or barely ordered them anymore.

Remember when Showtime used to do comedy? Now they have one show and it has not even been renewed yet!

throwawaythrow0000 t1_iu3z0uk wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:43 AM

> but those shows had built in audiences

A lot of people watched Friends, The Office, and Community for the first time ever when they were on Netflix. Even the cast members of those shows remarked on that and how the shows became very big (after the fact for the latter two).