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The solution is simple. Stop spending large sums to produce crap. Spend small sums to produce crap and admit it is crap (Kevin Hart), and there is an audience for that. Spend large sums on good prior art - eg. rebuild things that were popular elsewhere and inadvertently died - Arrested Development, Futurama, Longmire etc. Pay big sums for the artists - Matt Groening (Disenchanted), Chris Rock, Louis CK, Dave Chappelle (not Kevin Hart).

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I think you've been eating memberberries. Futurama should stay dead, it should not be brought back as a zombie. It should be allowed to rest in peace as the fantastic show it was.

We need to move forward, but most of the content I've seen on netflix is crap.

I actually agree, I just meant that the bringing back zombie strategy is a pretty risk free and effective one that can work in some cases.

Maybe not zombies, but premature deaths because they catered to niches that were too small successfully.

And get the artists to make new works.

> Maybe not zombies, but premature deaths because they catered to niches that were too small successfully.

Imagine the PR they would attract if they were able to bring back Firefly. Especially given Nathan Fillion is a big-name actor now.

Yup. It doesn't take a fortune to produce crap or good stuff. The only thing money can do is add some polish.

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