HBO programming chief Casey Bloys has explained the decision to cancel Jon Stewart‘s digital animated series before it had aired a single episode, per Deadline:
“In terms of quality control and the writing, when you’re putting something out 100 times a day, the quality control has to be there. That combined with the animation turnaround and our distribution – is this worth his time? Is it worth our time? Ultimately we would have kept going, but we would have had to figure the problems on our end… You think of it like a pilot and you hope it works… Knowing what I know now, we’ll see if someone else can figure it out.”
Do you think HBO made the right call to cancel the animated series, or would you have liked to have seen it despite the concerns?
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