With ‘Wednesday’, Paradigm Shift Puts Amazon Behind One Of Netflix’s Biggest Hits As Renewal Talks Begin
deadline.comWho had Amazon supplyingone of Netflix’s biggest original series on their 2022 bingo card? The Jeff Bezos-run company, after closing its $8.5B deal to buy MGM, is now responsible for Wednesday, which has quickly become its rival’s second biggest English-language series.
The Jenna Ortega-fronted show crossed the 1B hours viewed mark – only the third show to do that – in less than a month and overtook Dahmer to become the second most-watched U.S.
show behind season four of Stranger Things. A renewal is thought to be inevitable, although sources expect that will come in the new year rather than before the end of the year.
Producers are starting to talk to writers about joining the second season’s writers’ room and mulling season two locations, and even though MGM has been restructured into Amazon Studios, under Jen Salke, no one expects that to derail future seasons.
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