seemed to be the most successful and most beloved series out of all the < . Despite that, the show was n in a surprise announcement from STARZ earlier this year. Last night, the series finale for aired, with the show bidding goodbye to beloved characters like Tariq, Brayden, Cane, , Effie, and others for one final time.
It was a sad, but fitting ending to the series, but why did the show have to come to an end? Why Is Season 4 The Last Season Of Earlier this year, STARZ CEO Jeff Hirsch bluntly that the rising cost to produce a season of seemingly led to its end. Hirsch shared his explanation at the Deutsche Bank media conference: “When seasons go from one to two to three to four [seasons], three to four is where the cost really pops because most of the actors get bigger raises, and you have to really manage that. So, you have to have in your portfolio of development shows that can actually replace shows as they get into later seasons.
As you turn the slate over to go from season four and five economics, to season one economics, you can pull a ton of cost out of the business. What you have to do is map out each of those shows and ..
. what the curve looks like, and know where you have to pop a new show on to bring that cost down. And so we’ve got a pretty good map of what that looks like.
Because again, we focus on those two core demos, we’ve been able to manufacture hits for those demos. And so when you bring a BMF on — you know, BMF will be probably one of our two big.
