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While the payments are relatively modest after Season 1 and a little bigger after Season 2, I hear they escalate after Season 3, especially for series owned by Netflix - sometimes from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars - as the studio starts to pay off the shows’ back-end. Instead, Netflix’s deals include bump/bonuses after each season that are getting progressively bigger. But in exchange for the upfront payments, outside studios give up the potential upside that normally comes up with owning a long-running successful series, including off-network and international sales. Even after Netflix subtracts a distribution fee, outside studios are at break-even or in a positive territory from Day 1, versus having to deficit-finance series for the first few seasons on most traditional networks.
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It is widely known that Netflix employs a “cost-plus” model, offering to pay upfront a show’s production costs plus a premium of 30%+ of the costs.
That is because of how many of Netflix’s series deals are structured. I hear at least some of the cancellations on the list were prompted in part because the shows were deemed to have gotten too expensive. (Hit drama Narcos was wrapped after three seasons and succeeded by a new series, Narcos: Mexico.) The two others are multi-camera comedies done under a different business model: Fuller House, which will end after five seasons, and The Ranch, which has been renewed for a fourth season. One is the reliable awards contender Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which ran for four seasons, earning a slew of major nominations. Outside of that, out of dozens of original live-action scripted series launched, only three have gone beyond three seasons. The Crown was bought by Netflix as a six-season series chronicling the life of Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to also being an awards-attention magnet for its stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, the series comes from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman, whose presence at Netflix is believed to have helped the streaming platform secure and maintain the sought-after SVOD rights to Friends, one of the most prized off-network assets out there.
Besides Netflix’s legacy series House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, the first two originals that put the streamer on the map and generated awards buzz throughout their six-season runs, there is only one live-action series that has lasted that long: comedy Grace and Frankie. In addition to One Day at a Time, also canceled after three seasons at Netflix were Love, Bloodline and Hemlock Grove, with a slew of shows canceled after two.
I hear the moratorium on ODAAT is a bit less restrictive than others - a couple of years for SVOD but just a few months for network - which would allow the Latinx family comedy to pursue a fourth season on a broadcast network, for example.
(According to sources, the blackout period could be as long as 5-7 years since the date of the series’ delivery or even longer.)
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That probably is why we haven’t seen CBS TV Studios’ comedy American Vandal - a breakout hit for Netflix when it launched but canceled in October after two seasons - move to CBS All Access. I hear there is a standard clause in the deals for Netflix series from outside studios that prevents the shows from airing elsewhere for a significant period of time, said to be two to three years, making a continuation on another network/platform virtually impossible. Disney and Marvel TV executives likely would’ve liked to do that, but again their Netflix contract did not allow them to. They all had developed solid followings and drawn sizable viewership, so there was speculation when they were canceled that they could migrate to Disney’s upcoming streaming platform Disney+, which will feature a lot of Marvel-branded original content. Netflix also recently canceled all of its Marvel series after two or three seasons. 'One Day At A Time': Netflix Deal May Get In Way Of Finding New Home For Comedy
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