One factor that led to this cancellation is that Starz does not own House of Ashur. The situation is tricky. Lionsgate owned Starz and Ashur at the start of last year, but they spun Starz off while retaining the rights to Ashur. Starz basically told its former masters — “Eh, no dice. We ain’t getting into the position of being forced to pay you for something you originally created for us.”
That left Lionsgate in the position of trying to peddle it elsewhere.
Lionsgate Television is in the process of trying to secure another network or streaming service that could potentially save the series.
Is it marketable? Frankly, that’s not going to be an easy sell. Ashur is not family-friendly fare for general audiences. Lionsgate would have to find somebody interested in acquiring an unabashedly sexual and violent series that targets a niche audience. There hasn’t been much of a market for that kind of fare at the big streamers recently.
That’s a shame as a fan of what we see on here, but hardly a surprise as I never watched the show. I’m not sure how much it cost to produce, but maybe another low level streamer could pick it up just for one more season…
After all, Community lucked out with Yahoo.
Lionsgate owns the IP. (as you said)
Production Companies: Lionsgate Television, DeKnight Productions, and Tapert/Donen/Raimi.
So it comes down to if they can strike a deal with New Zealand (where it’s produced) or find some other sweetheart deal for incentives, etc.
I’m sure if Rob Tapert & Sam Raimi want to shop it around they could find interested parties, depends on much work they want to put into it, they’re older & don’t need the hassles (or the money).
And Amazon still produces “The Boys” (and associated spin-offs) so that’s something they’d be willing to pick up (if the price was right)
The only reason Netflix would be interested is if they knew someone else wanted it & they could aim for exclusivity, but again the price would have to be there.
BOO!!!!! Where else can I watch Ivana Baquero naked aside from that Netflix movie she did and that other Spanish movie on YouTube?
That’s not fair it’s was going good, my dearest Ivana Baquero and her female costars was making it all good’ but more importantly Ivana was making it all greater’ I was so hoping for another season of they were make another with Ivana’s return. So in this news rumor we’re hearing now, it seems like it were never gonna get that chance for another’ the first season is gonna be our only favorite season there’s ever gonna be. I’m gonna miss that show and I say damn those who ever canceled it the first place!
Starz is a dead streaming service walking.
God damn that fucking sucks. I don’t agree with Deknights politics but his shows are fucking incredible. We all got fucked.
That sucks, but it seems to be more about Starz business problems than the quality of the show.
It will be a tough sell to other networks though. Only one I can really see it having a chance on is Paramount +, they have a lot of male-coded stuff from Tyler Sheridan, and they also have smut like “Dating Naked UK” uncensored, so maybe there’s room for Sparty.
Only other scenario I see is a long shot like MGM or one of the smaller services. I can’t see HBO, Amazon or Netflix touching this show – though ironically it came to prominence because Starz had a streaming deal with Netflix back before they started their own service, and all the episodes showed up on Netflix the day after they aired.
It was a simpler time.
Netflix has been streaming the original 4 seasons. Natural place for it.