Universal Channel UK Drops How To Get Away With Murder
In a somewhat surprise move, Universal Channel UK has decided not to pick up Season 3 of How To Get Away With Murder Geektown has learnt.
The drama, sees criminal defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), and her law students, embroiled in various murder plots, some rather closer to home than others!
How To Get Away With Murder is made by ABC in the US, and sold internationally by Disney Media Distribution. Universal Channel, which is part of NBCUniversal, haven’t given a specific reason for the decision. In some cases, when it’s a show which is bought in externally, it’s simply a that the cost of the show outweighs the return from the UK viewing figures. Or it could just be the case that Universal wish to allocate the monetary resources somewhere else. We reached out to Universal for comment, who replied “Universal Channel UK will not be airing Season 3 of How To Get Away with Murder. While we are focusing on other acquisitions in 2016/17, it was a tough decision and we wish the show much continued success.”
Season 3 started airing on in September across the pond, but that decision now leaves the show in limbo for the UK audience. Hopefully it won’t be too long before another buyer emerges. Netflix has done rather well picking up shows dropped by traditional broadcast networks over here, so that maybe a possibility, and they do currently have seasons 1 & 2. We’ll have to see if this speeds up the arrival of season 3. Seasons 1 & 2 have also been available to buy & stream on iTunes and Amazon, so it’s possibly this may speed up season 3’s arrival on those platforms too.
We’ll let you know when we hear some more solid info about a new broadcast channel.
2 comments
As an avid watcher of the show i was really disappointed to hear about this decision as i am trying so hard not to read what is on the Internet about it but i have heard its a major development and i don’t think its fair that the UK has to wait a whole year before its on Netflix so i’m really hoping that Netflix take it on in the New Year so i can see what is happening. I will be watching the universal channel very closely to find out what they considered to drop the show for cause at the moment its repeat, repeat and repeat of what they already show HTGAWM was a breath of fresh air for the channel cause at the moment its meh???
Living in the U.K. as I do, I get so tired of our channels showing something for a couple of seasons and then dropping it. I would almost rather not see something at all rather than other dropped after a couple of seasons.
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