scottsol

inkling said:

$50 million a season with ten episodes seems like quite a bargain

That figure is far too low. Goyer said that amount was only for the production costs in Ireland.

scampercom said:

I sometimes feel a little bad that I won’t start watching any series before all its episodes are available (and I’m not the only one). Any beancounters watching for huge opening numbers needs to look for a secondary spike after the final episode ends, because that’s where watchers like me will come into the picture. So any decisions about whether a series will be picked up for another season also needs to accommodate streamer purists. (Watching a series dribbled out week-by-week is so 1997.)

The bean counters don’t care much about a one time payment of $4.99 to quickly watch ten hours of programming and then sign out until next year. Moreover, they don’t much care about getting $9.98 for the two month original run of the shows. What they want is for you to have two months to become captivated by their other shows so you keep your subscription active.

If the show isn’t captivating enough to attract a lot of weekly viewers, it can’t justify its extremely high production costs regardless of how many one month wonders there are.

JWSC said:

I wonder if they’ll have three seasons.  Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation.  And of course, the most important question would be, who gets to play the Mule?

Show runner David Goyer envisions eight seasons of ten episodes each. The first season already has characters from the prequels.