“After Season 1 we made a deal with Amazon for the SVOD rights after airing on Syfy,” Johnson says. “The issue was, more and more people were finding it more attractive to see it on Amazon. So the economics for Syfy just for their window and the advertising they were collecting in their window started to not make sense. They didn’t have the global rights to justify the cost of the show.”
“That deal is kind of a relic today,” Kosove says. “It was just at the moment when streaming was starting to take hold.” “The Expanse” will conclude its run with a sixth and final season on Amazon next year. But that won’t be the end of the road for Alcon. underlying IP for interactive, graphic novels, continuing storytelling in features. … It’s such a rich world. We’re considering all kinds of interesting possibilities.”
“The feature business is more of a random hit or miss, high-low — a lot of unpredictable activity,” Johnson says. “Television is actually a business with more steady cash flows and whatever. It certainly has its share of unpredictability but once a show is going, it’s a business. There’s sustainable cash flows that come in pretty regularly as opposed to a movie in which you’re relying on everything working on a single weekend, generally speaking.
In what world is The Expanse fantasy?
Fantasy?