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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is already bringing back one cancelled 20th Century Fox TV series, the Emmy-winning Arrested Development. Now the video streaming giant is taking a look at another, drama Terra Nova. I hear that 20th TV and Netflix have been in talks about keeping the pre-historic drama alive. My sources stress that the conversations are preliminary and it is unclear if they will materialize into a negotiation, but for fans of the series left heartbroken by Fox’s decision on Monday not to pick it up for a second season, this is still encouraging news. Immediately after Fox made its cancellation decision, 20th TV made it clear that it would try hard to find a new home for the series and shop it to other networks.
It would make a sense for Terra Nova, a Top 10 DVR gainer, to get a second life on a streaming service like Netflix. During its freshman run, the series‘ 18-49 rating grew on average 44% in Live+7 vs. Live+Same say. In Live+7, the drama starring Jason O’Mara logged a respectable 3.6/9 among adults 18-49. 20th TV, which declined comment, too has an incentive to keep Terra Nova alive as the series, featuring CGI dinosaurs and branded with executive producer Steven Spielberg’s name, is a big international seller. But making a second season of a big-budget series like Terra Nova work financially without a lucrative broadcast network license fee would be very challenging. Yet, 20th and Netflix already reached an agreement once on a high-end show, a new season of Arrested Development, so while not very likely, a deal for Terra Nova won’t be impossible. Keep the faith, fans….
Related: ‘Terra Nova’ Cancelled By Fox; Series Will Be Shopped To Other Networks
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And, Peyton Manning will return to the Colts and bring another championship to Indianapolis.
This will air around the time of the Freaks and Geeks Season 2 pick-up and the fourth season of Veronica Mars, right?
Don’t forget Firefly, Jericho, My So-Called Life, Deadwood, Pushing Daisies, Roswell, Wonderfalls, Sports Night, Buffalo Bill, Frank’s Place, The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, Once and Again, Swingtown, and the original Star Trek. Make it happen, Netflix!
Star Trek is the one that could work the best. There’s a big noisy fanbase still in existence (I wouldn’t bet anything on the Pushing Daisies and Jericho crowds still caring, and I used to be one of them) and there’s a movie series that keeps pushing the brand back into popular awareness frequently enough to actually enlarge the core fans.
Netflix needs some “grabby” cult show that will make people jump out of their skins in their rush to subscribe. Terra Nova is not that show. It’s far too broadcast-bland. By the time they produced new episodes, it would be forgotten.
It’s one thing to attract an audience by shoving something free at them, from the comfort of their couches, and another thing entirely to expect them to actually PAY good money for the show, and have to seek it out on a website where they don’t already subscribe, to boot.
Also: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I really liked that one…
And yet, still not enough of a reason to renew my membership.
I depends on how big the international market is, and how much FOX wants that market. If this happens more shows on the bubble might follow.
I’m sorry, but where is Netflix gonna get 4M an episode to pay form the above the line on this piece of garbage series. terra Novas dinosaurs were first seen in Jurrasic Park and that’s where concepts like this belong. Big screen, big event. Television is an intimate medium best served by character driven ideas. If 20th TV can’t convince Kecin Reilly to keep this show on Fox because it makes financial sense for the mothership that is Newscorp, then who would be so dumb as to take it on? Oh right, we’re talking the brain trust that is Netflix. My bad.
Right idea, make sci fi series for niche audiences who are all on the internet anyway. But Terra Nova has too much baggage and expense. Netflix would be smarter to develop something original, and definitely less expensive.
Why not some kind of mirror arrangement with TNT or Syfy with Netflix?
Or a similar deal to what NBC and DirecTV had with Friday Night Lights.
So Netflix can take on ‘Terra Nova’, one of the crapiest new shows of the 2011-12 season but they can’t take on canceled shows like ‘The Chicago Code’, ‘The Event’, ‘Law & Order: LA’, ‘Prime Suspect’, ’24′, ‘Lie to Me’, ‘Mercy’? Screw Netflix. It’s likely it won’t happen anyway.
I hope you mean the original Helen Mirren “Prime Suspect”. The new one was dreadful
And this post demonstrates the problem. Everyone has a different opinion on which shows are worth reviving. But in a subscription based business, it’s not just a question of who likes what, but how intensely they like it.
Forget like, we need love. Deep, obsessive, crazy-making love. Think Star Trek or a novel series like Game of Thrones with a maniacal fanbase. That’s what could motivate new Netflix subscribes. They can do so much better than Terra Nova.
BRING BACK LIE TO ME, NETFLIX!
They idiotically dump 100 million into House of Cards and now this? They should spread that around, and keep getting indy movies instead of shying away from them like they are doing now.
Easy solution, do like FNL did, sort of. Find a network/cable channel to air it on and then do second run on netflix during that week. Cable would only viable option, though, otherwise netflix would have to eat majority of production costs since a network wouldn’t be making much money. Or just let it die. This needs to happen so Braga will retire from sci-fi. Maybe he can invest in reality tv, kill that “genre” off. At least then he will be doing a productive service.
I love your idea of siccing Braga onto reality TV. How can we get him onto the writing staff of Jersey Shore?
If Netflix picks this up I leave blockbuster and come back to Netflix I love this show
I don’t mean to hijack the thread, but if there is one current show Netflix should pick up it’s Nikita. Great overlooked series, and way less costly
Yes! If CW does not renew Nikita, I’m hoping it can live on through another network, such as TNT or even Netflix. That would be awesome.
Or even better still FRINGE if it’s cancelled by Fox.
As much as I liked Fringe in the past, I would vote Nikita which is not only the better series, it is the younger series of the two which would be less expensive plus it got moved to Friday death slot in its second season. So unfair.
zero chance this happens. the cost would be way out of Netflix’s league.
Honestly, if it’s over I’m okay with it. Because y’know, the actors are working on other things, and who knows, if TN is actually brought back, Wash may not return. I’m happy with thinking she was just stunned and not killed, so I’ll stick to my fantasies.
Kelli don’t forget Terriers. The best new show of the last 2 years. Man I wish somebody would’ve picked that one up.
Netflix can’t afford it and what would they be buying, viewer apathy? They’re already squawking over the cost of the Fincher show. But they will have the money they set aside for “Arrested Development” once it falls apart, which it will over cast fees.
Netflix can afford this, last year they had over 3 billion in revenue, but they should push forward with this.
If Netflix picked this up-I would be shocked out of my f##king mind! If they didn’t pick up The Ev3nt and others-why or how could they pick up Terra Nova. I mean,it’s good for fans to have hope,but,being real-this is NOT happening. I didn’t like this show(only made it through the 2-hour premiere),so, I’m not surprised it was eventually,but, I WOULD be surprised if it was somehow brought back to life. Just TN being such an expensive show tells me:THIS IS JUST NOT GOING TO TAKE PLACE. Thank you.
eventually*cancelled*-sorry
I sure wanted to like this show, but man o man was it awful!!! It just seemed like a really expensive version of an ABC Saturday morning kids show circa 1974, albeit a horribly written one with a shockingly untalented cast of young actors . Sorry it cost so much 20th but time to cut your loses and let this turkey go the way of the dinosaurs!
I’ll believe it when I see it. I can’t fathom any business model making sense for this —- yet with the production costs associated with that series.
(My guess? 20th or related production partners on this project are trying to keep this out there in the press as they continue to try and sell it) Netflix. Hey, if it happens… it will be a brilliant deal, amazing in fact and ground breaking it just seems a little far fetched.
Stupid idea. I actually liked Terra Nova for what it was, but in the business realm, it was an expensive turkey.
I’d go out on a limb and say this doesn’t fit Netflix’s biz model, either.
Better shows have gotten cancelled. Firefly comes immediately to mind. Let it die, already.
The production costs associated for the show will not be nearly as high as it was in the first season due to the simple fact that a lot of the costs were sunk in the sets and they won’t have to pay for those again. Not to mention the fact that you can expect a shorter (probably ten episode) season from Netflix than you would from FOX.
Kevin Reilly has been very clear for a long time that whatever the fate of TN was, he had no regrets because they made money on the show. The International distribution is a huge pot of money (and the reason that CBS renewed Blue Bloods, if you’ll recall) and it can’t be understated.
The DVR numbers are very interesting because Netflix makes those numbers relevant whereas they haven’t been particularly relevant before because advertisers don’t care about them (at best, they’ll look at Live+3). A series that shows those kind of Live+7 numbers is ideally suited for an VOD service like Netflix who has made it very clear that their desire is to be more like a television network than a VOD service and that’s why I find many of these comments so puzzling.
“I’d go out on a limb and say this doesn’t fit Netflix’s biz model, either.”
Why? This is exactly what Netflix has publicly said they want to do.
Not to mention all of the silly comments re: the ratings being low and the show being awful.
First, did anyone actually bother to read the piece above where it explained that TN actually had respectable numbers when considering the DVR viewings?
Second, the logic of, “Terra Nova sucks and my show is better and wasn’t kept alive so Terra Nova shouldn’t be kept alive,” is ridiculous and a little embarrassing to even read. A lot of good shows get canceled… quality has nothing to do with it. If a show is financially viable it will continue to be produced… period. All of the others shows that have been listed as “better” than TN weren’t financially viable. The fact that in the same breath that the cancellation was announced it was also announced that the series was being shopped ought to be a pretty good indication as to whether or not 20th Century Television thinks it has the potential to make more money in the future because that kind of announcement is a rarity in and of itself in this business.
Every benefit that Terra Nova brings to the party is a benefit that other shows could also bring – both ones that can be revived or created from original concepts.
Terra Nova’s big problem is that it doesn’t fit the role that Netflix needs, of an obsessive cultish show that will induce people to become new subscribers because they just can’t stay away. Terra Nova was like a lot of TV, something that some people would watch if it’s easy to get and free. Now make it hard to get and cost money. Different story.
DVR viewing doesn’t imply obsession. DVRing stuff makes TV viewing even easier. I DVR stuff when I’m not sure I even want to bother with it.
What they’re looking for is a Star Trek, a Firefly, a Game of Thrones.