10 Huge Mistakes WWE Have Made With The WWE Network
2. Speculate To Accumulate
The great sadness around Talking Smack's cancellation was mirrored in quieter fashion by Edge and Christian's revelation in their own podcast that a second series of their hit show (...'that totally reeks of awesomeness') was unlikely due to budgetary demands elsewhere.
It joined the SmackDown sister show alongside Legends With JBL and Breaking Ground as once-popular vehicles that got the chop, but begged the question as to why WWE feels the need to run its subscriber service as if they were a stereotypically evil television network. Why go to the trouble of 'cancelling' anything? Or for that matter, even announcing the intention to do such a thing?
Though impossible to hide Talking Smack's abandonment, fans would just wait patiently for new episodes of their other favourite shows safe in ignorance that they may not make a comeback, especially whilst distracted with brand new and exclusive content offered in the meantime.
Furthermore, if money does magically appear available in the future, it avoids having to go back on a cancellation if the best way to spend it is with brand new editions of popular favourites. The abject sh*t-canning of some of the aforementioned programmes unnecessarily buries them with crushing permanence, attacking subscriber optimism that the service will continue to be worth time and financial investment.