![]() Netflix has not yet released official viewership data for Teenage Bounty Hunters, or at least official according to Netflix’s metrics. It’s Not Like the Audience is Non-Existent ![]() One reason why Sense8, one of Netflix’s most expensive series at the time of its run, scored a Season 2 renewal despite a somewhat niche audience was because of the audience commitment.Ĥ. This metric provides an idea of whether or not a show can attract enough viewers for additional seasons to justify the costs. The streamer pays attention to what percentage of fans consume an entire TV season from start to finish. Plus, Netflix isn’t always as concerned with raw viewership numbers as it is with completion rate. On that front, the show’s watch party over this past weekend generated 19,300 Twitter conversations, 79,100 engagements, and 5.7 million impressions, according to Talk Walker. The main currency of the streaming era is buzz, so word-of-mouth becomes a tangible contributing factor. ![]() Teenage Bounty Hunters may not be a global breakout hit in the vein of Stranger Things, but it does have a passionate and vocal online fanbase. Renewing the show for a second season is a low-cost investment in a worthwhile product. I’m not saying it’s cheap to make any TV show, but it’s definitely not pushing the $10 million per episode range that The Witcher is living in. ![]() Teenage Bounty Hunters has a far smaller cast and scope. Orange is the New Black cost around $4 million per episode as an ensemble endeavor. It’s not as if Teenage Bounty Hunters is an unwieldy investment for the streamer, which has seen its stock price soar during the pandemic. While the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting production shutdown has introduced a deluge of new factors to consider while navigating the future, it has not eliminated Netflix’s defining trait: an insatiable need for original programming. ![]() Since Kohan signed her overall deal with Netflix in 2017, the streaming company has nearly tripled its annual content budget to $17 billion. Netflix Isn’t Breaking the Bank with Teenage Bounty Hunters Ryan Murphy’s The Politician may have been a bit more star-studded (Gwyneth Paltrow is always going to provide a nice SEO boost) but fared much worse with critics, who gave it a score of 57% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s also a show of good faith and commitment to a high-profile creator on a massive overall deal, which can only be good long-term business. Renewing her latest well-received series, which currently holds a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and is led by writer/producer Kathleen Jordan, opens the door for future accolades, which we all know Netflix lusts after. It doesn’t take a Netflix algorithmic expert to acknowledge the high quality of Kohan’s track record. The former scored six Golden Globe nominations and snagged four Primetime Emmy statues during its run the latter has two Golden Globe nods and three Emmy wins to its name. The Weeds creator helped launch Netflix’s original programming push with Orange is the New Black (six seasons) and has followed that up with the critically acclaimed GLOW (entering its fourth and final season). In 2017, über-producer Jenji Kohan signed a lucrative overall deal to make Netflix her exclusive creative home. Executive Producer Jenji Kohan Is Signed to an Overall Netflix Deal ![]()
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