Netflix has canceled its action comedy series Obliterated after a single season.
The show was created by the same people who made Cobra Kai, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald. It was first made for TBS, where it was ordered straight to series in 2019. But when TBS cut back on its written shows, Obliterated became a free agent. In May 2022, it found a home at Netflix.
The show is about a special forces team that stops a dangerous threat to Las Vegas. They then celebrate their success all night, only to wake up the next morning to find that the bomb they defused was a fake. As they try to save the city for real, they have to fight off hangovers and other problems.
When it first came out on Netflix on November 30, Obliterated was in the top 10 English-language shows in the world for six weeks. The eight-episode season, which lasts six hours and fifty minutes, got 29 million “views” during that time, which is the same as many full seasons of the show.
That’s about 6.76 million views in the US during the four weeks that Obliterated was in the top 10 streaming charts from Nielsen. That’s 2.77 billion minutes of watching.
Obliterated was made by Sony Pictures Television, which also makes Cobra Kai and has a general deal with Hurwitz, Schlossberg, and Heald. The three worked together with Dina Hillier from Counterbalance Entertainment as an executive producer.
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