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‘On Call’ Done On Prime Video After Renewal Talks Fall Through, Being Shopped To Other Buyers
Amazon is not proceeding with a second season of half-hour action police drama On Call, but the series is being shopped to other platforms.
This is a somewhat surprising development as On Call, created by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, has done well, reaching the #1 slot on the streamer in the U.S. following the January 9 drop of all eight episodes and earning 92% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Under the widely used current cost-plus streaming compensation model, the license fee producers get from the platforms covers the cost of the series plus a premium on top, which goes to the project’s profit participants and studio in lieu of backend. For Wolf Entertainment and Universal TV, reducing a premium that was not big to begin with was not economically feasible, so the status of On Call at Amazon went from a pending two-season renewal to cancellation within the span of weeks.
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