Ted Sarandos Claiming Netflix Has ‘Never Canceled A Successful Show’ Is Not Sitting Well With Fans Of ‘Warrior Nun’ And ‘GLOW’ (And Many More)

In 2022, Netflix canceled Warrior Nun, The Midnight Club, Fate: The Winx Saga, The Midnight Gospel, The Baby-Sitters Club, Space Force, and Archive 81. Every channel and streaming service will cancel fan favorites (I’m still salty about Freaks and Geeks), but that’s a lot of popular and/or critically-admired shows to axe in one year. Especially while the hurt from the premature cancelations of GLOW, Everything Sucks!, Santa Clarita Diet, and my beloved The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (RIP) still remains.

Recent comments from Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos will not make Sense8 fans feel better. “We have never canceled a successful show,” he told Bloomberg. “A lot of these shows were well-intended but talk to a very small audience on a very big budget. The key to it is you have to be able to talk to a small audience on a small budget and a large audience at a large budget. If you do that well, you can do that forever.”

If Sarandos meant to say, “We have never canceled a successful show… as long as that show is Mindhunter, because it wasn’t technically canceled,” he’s not wrong. But otherwise, his remarks have united the fanbases of many so-called unsuccessful shows.

— Only for AnnE (@JuliaBlythe_) January 23, 2023

Literally Sense8 1899 Warrior nun Winx Santa Clarita diet

They are joking right https://t.co/PHrpERMjr9

— ©| (@sitcomz) January 23, 2023

Y’all legit cancelled Sense8. Why y’all lie so much https://t.co/y9GsF04lKI

— THE BLACK Oprah (@TheeMokonzi) January 23, 2023

Netflix claiming none of the shows were successful when warrior nun fans have been on trending since they canceled it is so funny like theyre abt to riot outside of hc just make another season

— max / michael & (@brosimping) January 23, 2023

Netflix: “never canceled a successful show.”

oh Sure bro they're lying

The audacity they have

NETFLIX FREE WARRIOR NUN #SaveWarriorNun #WarriorNun https://t.co/WJoWEGW54t pic.twitter.com/NSSdFa7ZpB

— Anthony S (@StraderZane) January 23, 2023