![]() First, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg left after production on season three was already completed (for a lucrative overall deal with Warner Bros. So then why would Netflix cancel Jessica Jones when its third season hasn’t even aired yet? A couple reasons. (The same is true of the upcoming third and final season of FX’s Legion.) If you sense a theme it’s because you should: Disney owns all of its Marvel TV programming across the dial and, save for The Gifted, has Marvel fare on all of its platforms: broadcast, basic cable and streaming (on both of its platforms). Then there’s Fox’s The Gifted, which is produced by 20th Century Fox Television - with the studio also included in Disney’s Fox buy. And Disney, once its $72 billion Fox acquisition closes, will have a majority ownership stake in Hulu. ![]() The streamer also has YA-themed The Runaways awaiting word on a third season. Hulu this month announced a slate of four animated Marvel comedies (and a mash-up special aptly named The Offenders). Disney-owned Freeform airs Cloak and Dagger (produced by ABC Signature). The series scored a rare early seventh-season renewal for the 2019-2020 broadcast season - before its sixth season even aired. ![]() ![]() The ABC drama - which now has shockingly outlived all of the Netflix series - has been a perennial bubble show despite the fact that the network owns it. Agents of SHIELD was Marvel’s first live-action scripted series. To further illustrate how Disney is pulling back its Marvel TV properties for its own platforms, look no further than the rest of the comic book giant’s scripted fare. ![]()
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