On one hand, Manifest kept gaining traction on Netflix, and even hit No. Over the next several weeks, the news concerning the show’s fate continued to oddly get both better and worse at the same time. The campaign is beginning.’ So before we even had a chance to lift a finger to figure out if we need a PR campaign to help save us, the fans rose up and created this campaign and spread the word - which was incredibly rewarding and heartening.” “A small group of super fans formed a Twitter group and said, ‘We got you Jeff. “I’ve had shows canceled before and this is the first time that I experienced such a wave of support among the fandom,” Rake says. The next morning, when the cancelation news broke wide, fans flooded Twitter with their support. The studio was fully on board with shopping the series elsewhere, and anybody who turned on Netflix could plainly (plane-ly?) see Manifest was right there under the “Top 10” banner. But even then, Rake already was feeling some fresh optimism. The dreaded confirmation call came the night of June 14. There’s that old joke about the cat being on the roof and it was very clear to me the cat was on the roof.” I think there was a lot of internal hand-wringing going on at NBC because I think they really did like the show and they were just trying to see if they could make an economic case for it. We consistently heard back the issues on the table weren’t creative, they were financial. I would ask my colleagues at the studio if there was anything that we could do to help, from a creative standpoint, to get to a favorable decision for future seasons of Manifest. I wasn’t hearing much of anything from the network. “The normal notes process as you transition from one season to another wasn’t happening. “It’s about what’s not being said,” Rake says. He had, in other words, been down this road before. Rake is a veteran writer-producer - his credits range from hits like Bones and Boston Legal to short-lived efforts like The Mysteries of Laura and The Tomorrow People. The show’s season four pickup still hadn’t come through and, more worrisomely, he wasn’t getting any forward-looking questions from NBC. So the problem wasn’t anything that Rake was hearing, it was all the things he wasn’t. Netflix's Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos' Pay Packages Hit $50M-Plus in 2022
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