What the cancelation of shows like 'One Mississippi' and 'I Love Dick' may portend for the future
Streaming networks - your Netflix, your Amazon Prime, your Hulu - that once appeared to be only in the business of ordering new programs have recently begun canceling them with what seems like equal energy.
Netflix (in the original content business since 2012), recently laid off "Lady Dynamite," Maria Bamford's surreal refraction of her own life; "Sense8," a globe-spanning mystical sci-fi adventure from Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski (that's getting a movie-length finale after fan outcry); Colleen Ballinger's Miranda Sings comedy "Haters Back Off!"; Naomi Watts' psychological thriller "Gypsy"; Baz Luhrmann's hip-hop epic "The Get Down"; "Girlboss," about online fashion retailer Sophia Amoruso; and Chuck Lorre's "Disjointed," a three-camera workplace comedy set in
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