10 Cancelled TV Shows That Made Obvious Mistakes

1899 was the new series from Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, and Netflix clearly banked on it becoming another word-of-mouth hit mystery show.

However, 1899 was unceremoniously cancelled just six weeks after its premiere, with subsequent reports noting that Netflix canned the show due to its low completion rate, whereby only a small fraction of viewers actually finished the entire series.

There were a few mistakes Netflix clearly made with distributing 1899, namely releasing it just six days before Wednesday hit their platform and sucked all the air out of the room, and perhaps worst of all? Dropping it all at once.

Though Netflix has popularised the binge model and only deviated from it on a few specific occasions - such as splitting Stranger Things' fourth season in two - 1899 would've been a perfect show to experiment with a weekly release model.

Given that mystery-centric shows benefit massively from audience chatter and theory-crafting, 1899 probably would've fared better by, say, dropping two episodes per week over the course of a month.

That way discussions would've had time to grow, and it would've also been given space away from Wednesday, rather than being basically forgotten about the moment that the Addams Family series was released.

This would in no way have guaranteed that 1899 fared well enough to get renewed, but dumping all the episodes at once with minimal marketing ahead of a far more mainstream show was basically setting it up to fail.