Netflix Cancelling ‘Away’ Shows You Can’t Always Count On The Top 10

Netflix Cancelling ‘Away’ Shows You Can’t Always Count On The Top 10

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For a while there, it seemed like a pretty good metric of whether or not a show was going to be renewed on Netflix was how high and how long it was in the service's Top 10 list. But more and more, that's meaning less and less, and perhaps no example is more significant than this most recent axing.

Netflix has cancelled Away, the Hilary Swank astronaut drama, after one season, despite spending a whole bunch of time in the Top 10 list, peaking at #1 in the US. In this case, the rationale may be not that it wasn't viewed a lot, but that it wasn't viewed enough to justify what had to be a high cost, between all the