The Crown’s season five has reigned supreme over Netflix’s English-language television charts.
27.10.2022 - 20:13 / deadline.com
The band has a new home: Girls5eva is moving to Netflix from rival streamer Peacock for its third season.
The move is a shock as it’s one of the first original series to move between rival streaming services but Deadline hears that the Tina Fey-produced series was actually canceled at Peacock before Netflix swooped in to save it.
Although the comedy series, which stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and Paula Pell, has been well received critically and was arguably the closest thing to an awards contender that the streamer had, Girls5eva wasn’t one of its most-watched shows and didn’t bring in the same audiences that the likes of dramas Bel Air and Dr. Death did.
We hear that Susan Rovner, who oversees both NBC and Peacock in her role as Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, was forced to make the tough decision to prioritize other shows and cancel it after its second season finished in June.
Girls5eva, which was created by Meredith Scardino, who serves as showrunner and exec produces alongside Fey, Jeff Richmond, Robert Carlock, David Miner and Eric Gurian, comes from Universal Television.
Fey and Universal Television were also behind Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which moved from NBC, where it had been developed, to Netflix. Bela Bajaria, who oversaw that move in her former role as head of Universal Television, is now head of global television at Netflix.
While it’s no longer rare for original linear shows to move to streaming, originals don’t move between rival streamers and follows only Cobra Kai, which moved from YouTube Premium to Netflix, and that was as a result of a strategy shift at the Google-owned company.
In addition to greenlighting season three,
The Crown’s season five has reigned supreme over Netflix’s English-language television charts.
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