Amazon is terminate its policy of permit viewers vote on which TV pilot episode they would wish to become full - distance series , announcing at the Television Critics Association ’s press tour on Saturday that it was finish the crowdsourcing portion of its original content program .
“ I ’d never say ‘ never ’ but that version is not something we ’re doing , ” Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke told reporters , per Entertainment Weekly . “ We ’ll habituate our own testing barometers and some exploiter data but the public vote process has been fructify aside for now . ”
According to Amazon ’s co - headspring of TV Albert Chang , the magazine added , the problem was not the voting so much as the amount of meter involved in begin a Modern series rolling . He explained the voting cognitive process was sucking up meter , resources , and energy that could be better directed towards just letting studios do flat to serial publication production without a pilot light .
“ One of the things we learn is it took too long to get shows customers wanted , ” Chang said . “ You necessitate up taking way too long to get the genuine time of year done . ”
The conclusion is n’t coming out of nowhere . In 2017 , now - former Amazon Studios head Roy Pricesaid that“The realism of the marketplace is it ’s competitory and often you just have to go to serial . We still have customer feedback , but will believably have few pilots for sure . ”
Some of Amazon ’s most high - profile capacity came out of the airplane pilot program , including the national socialist - centrical alt - history / science fiction show Man in the High Castle , a reboot of The Tick , and thecritically acclaimed Transparent . Amazon ispouring one thousand million of dollarsinto original mental object now , though , which means it can give to move quick and take endangerment to cash in in on opportunity before they frivol away . Asthe Verge noted , they ’ve been making massive pushes towards develop contentedness like adaptations of Ringworld , Snow Crash , Utopia , and Tales from the Loop , as well as a show set in J.R.R. Tolkien ’s Middle - Earth .
As Entertainment Weekly noted , Amazon defended the note value of the fender program as late as last November , writing :
Amazon client feedback on pilots has assist make some of the most critically acclaimed and popular serial publication to date , include multi - Golden Globe- and Emmy - deliver the goods serial Transparent , multi - favorable Globe - winning serial publication Mozart in the Jungle , and the most - pour written Amazon Original Series ever by Prime member globally , The Man in the High Castle , winner of two Emmys .
Perhaps it will return one day in some form , but for now Amazon does n’t seem to have the time to wait and see what audiences like before they go ahead and film it .
[ Entertainment Weekly ]
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