Banished to Streaming

There has been a new phenomenon that I have been noticing as of late. It hasn’t actually been all that new a thing depending on how you would define it. Basically, a show that started on network television winds up banished to one of the streaming sites out there. At least there is a future for the show. It does get to finish airing the rest of its episodes. But its fate was sealed.

 

It is good, I guess, that there is some future when they get to finish out their runs. It can still be kind of a dejection for those who don’t have whatever streaming site that it is on (should it be a paid site that you don’t have), those with internet issues, those who don’t have internet at all (if not a fast based one), those who can’t access certain sites well due to how advanced they are, or people who simple don’t know that it is on streaming. It is still better than nothing in the end.

 

What are some examples of this? Well, the show Time after Time wound up on the CW seed (which is free) after it was cancelled by ABC after five episodes. All of series 8 of Taskmaster also wound up on the CW seed after its incredibly low ratings got it pulled after just one episode aired on TV in this country. Promised Land wound up on Hulu to finish its run after it didn’t last long on network TV.

 

There are other examples of a show getting cancelled and then streaming picks it up for another season, be it just the one last one or plenty of others beyond that. Netflix brought back Designed Survivor and is set to bring back Manifest. And while it is a different scenario, Paramount+ is continuing shows that had begun on CBS, such as SEAL Team or Blood and Treasure.

 

This is likely to continue for a whole lot as the shows continue on throughout all of TV’s history. It is worth this one post, if not any others in the end. I don’t think that there is too much else to say about it so I will end the post here.