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No Season 3 for the animated series.
June 13, 2024
Word is out that My Dad the Bounty Hunter has been cancelled by Netflix after two seasons. The news comes 10 months after the animated series wrapped its sophomore run. Co-creator Everett Downing Jr. confirmed the news in a recent interview.
"I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to work with such an incredible team of partners and artists," Downing Jr. told whats-on-netflix.com. "It's so unreal watching your ideas come to life! Everyone who worked on the show fell in love with Terry, Tess, Lisa, Sean, and the entire cast of quirky, wild, and crazy characters. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to revisit this world again someday. For now, these characters and stories will be living rent-free in my heart for the rest of my life."
The show follows siblings Sean and Lisa, who stow away on their father's latest work trip looking for some quality time together. Little do they know their dad is secretly the toughest bounty hunter in the galaxy, launching them into the space adventure of a lifetime.
Comments (4)
06/19/24 at 10:21am
@Wolverine
Tell us you know nothing about the film and tv industry, its distribution, or its history without saying anything useful.
Old serials were created by studios who owned the rights to the films and owned the theaters they were shown in. When they made a cliffhanger they knew the next part would be shown. They left the consumer with a promise that would be fufilled. Their job was to have content for a the theater. They worked because audiences knew the story would be resolved.
The creators of "My dad the bounty hunter" do not own Netflix. When they make a cliffhanger they have no garuntee they will be able to finish it. They know this because it is a basic fact of the industry. If you do not own the performance space there is no garuntee of performance.
By leaving a cliffhanger they are saying to the audience "We do not know if we wil be able to concluded this cliffhanger. We know this would be bad for you and do not care enough to create an ending with room for additional story, as has been done since the begging of fiction itself."
This causes the audience to get mad. The preformance space now must ignore its customers, or give the creators more time. The space is being forced to do something because somebody forced them to. (That is how they are being held hostage) if they go along with it then every creator will simple make a cliffhanger and then be garunteed a new preformance.
On the audience side the consumers start to lose faith in a preformance space and avoid a preformance until it has a garunteed conclusion (look at all the "I don't watch series until I has" comments on this site) That means that less consumers are going to the preformance space and it's losing money.
TLDNR: Why should Betflix be forced to lose money or customers to a creator who does not care about its own audience or Netflix. The best silt ion is to just not give them anything.
Tell us you know nothing about the film and tv industry, its distribution, or its history without saying anything useful.
Old serials were created by studios who owned the rights to the films and owned the theaters they were shown in. When they made a cliffhanger they knew the next part would be shown. They left the consumer with a promise that would be fufilled. Their job was to have content for a the theater. They worked because audiences knew the story would be resolved.
The creators of "My dad the bounty hunter" do not own Netflix. When they make a cliffhanger they have no garuntee they will be able to finish it. They know this because it is a basic fact of the industry. If you do not own the performance space there is no garuntee of performance.
By leaving a cliffhanger they are saying to the audience "We do not know if we wil be able to concluded this cliffhanger. We know this would be bad for you and do not care enough to create an ending with room for additional story, as has been done since the begging of fiction itself."
This causes the audience to get mad. The preformance space now must ignore its customers, or give the creators more time. The space is being forced to do something because somebody forced them to. (That is how they are being held hostage) if they go along with it then every creator will simple make a cliffhanger and then be garunteed a new preformance.
On the audience side the consumers start to lose faith in a preformance space and avoid a preformance until it has a garunteed conclusion (look at all the "I don't watch series until I has" comments on this site) That means that less consumers are going to the preformance space and it's losing money.
TLDNR: Why should Betflix be forced to lose money or customers to a creator who does not care about its own audience or Netflix. The best silt ion is to just not give them anything.
06/19/24 at 02:53am
@Truth Tell us you know nothing about storytelling without telling us. The cliffhanger is a tried and true storytelling method since the days of the serial. Its job is to keep the audience anxiously awaiting the next part and enticing them to see it. Sure, it sucks when a show is cancelled after a cliffhanger, but unfortunately that's just how things roll sometimes. And until Netflix fixes its flawed viewership model, shows will continue to be cancelled without much thought to their quality.
06/18/24 at 07:44am
If the creators of this show decided to have a cliffhanger without at least a renewal (which can be revoked), this show should never be renewed. That's an insult to your audience and trying to hold the network hostage. Your show should be automatically canceled and you shouldn't be in the industry if you do that.
06/15/24 at 06:11pm
Come on, the show had a cliffhanger. This show needs to be renewed and with a 100% percent on Rotten Tomatoes and solid viewership, something is amiss. Let's show the support. https://chng.it/LD67TcqKvS
