The show's faithful have created a campaign to save it, which has so far involved encouraging more than 100,000 people to sign a petition, hiring a plane to fly over Netflix HQ and renting both a billboard in New York City's Time Square and a month-long subway ad in Seoul, South Korea.Īnd they're not the only ones pulling out all the stops to rescue their favourite show.įans of Marvel's Daredevil, which was dropped by Netflix last year, have also started a campaign to get it back up and running with their #SaveDaredevil petition.
Related: TV shows 2019 – what's been axed and what's been renewed? While that doesn't guarantee safety for Shadowhunters, it does suggest that the show could potentially be picked up by another broadcaster or streaming service. Both shows absolutely deserved their spot, but it wasn't enough to initially save them.įortunately, the former was snapped up by Netflix for a fourth season, while NBC swooped in to rescue the latter, which has just been renewed for season seven. Both Lucifer and Brooklyn Nine-Nine were cut from Fox's roster, much to the disappointment of their faithful followings. Of course, this isn't the first time a firm fan-favourite has been cancelled. "We went back and forth with them but ultimately we just couldn't make the economics work."
Related: Why your favourite shows keep getting cancelledĭeadline reported that during a media lunch, the Executive Vice President of Programming and Development Karey Burke revealed that the cancellation was down to financial reasons. It's easy to be fooled by the fan reaction, but the series has never really hit big numbers – and despite its third season remaining one of the broadcaster's "strongest Nielsen ratings performers" according to TV Series Finale, those ratings still haven't reached particularly great heights and this season has suffered a significant decline when compared with the previous year.īut while ratings undoubtedly play a part, so does cold hard cash.
You know what’s stupid? shadowhunters being cancelled THATS SO MEAN- soapy March 8, 2019īut why has the show, which follows Clary Fairchild and her fellow Shadowhunters on their quest to protect humans from demons and rogue downworlders, been banished to the TV graveyard?
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