[fernandopj]

Andor S2 was around $350M and most likely paid for itself and some. [1]

> On the other hand, I guess it's still a business, at the end of the day.

You're right, in the sense that Andor was an exception regarding every other SW show on Disney+ for the past 4 years. All had high production costs and seems like Andor is the only one which recouped itself. Acolyte was a spectacular viewship failure.

So the business logic would be to cap costs, most likely in half for now on. I don't have high expectations of Disney learning the right lessons from Andor & Tony.

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/star-wars-andor-revenue-disney-plus/

[imglorp]

How exactly does a streaming show pay? Is it measured in new subscriptions when viewers hear the buzz and sign up to the service due to that show? Otherwise, the users stream it, or don't, they pay the same either way.

The inverse question too: why do streaming platforms cancel popular shows? Watcher count doesn't seem to be the metric I think it is.