>>108021675This is probably to do with stuff on the back end rather than something intrinsic to DC.
While it's true DC has made a lot of shitty shows, they've also made a *lot* of shows, enough to offer a premium streaming service that collects them all under one outlet that DC/WB control, instead of having to pay up distributor fees to other platforms. As tv is basically dead it's not such a bad idea to get your own streaming service if as WB is you're a major producer of content, and even DC, as a subsidiary, could benefit from a niche platform where it won't be lost in the other variety on offer.
However, for example Swamp Thing won't now be getting another season and this is to do with the promised tax rebate where they were filming having been swallowed up by a (state government) accounting error - basically they were told they'd get a $40m rebate and they got $14. The budget of the first season was about $80m in total (so they're a major contributor to state coffers) but for a $14m rebate it's impossible to maintain the same level of quality for next season. For that reason, Swamp Thing is cancelled (the state can't offer money back it doesn't have and the mistake was one of misfiled paperwork) because there's no point even putting production on hiatus when that rebate will simply never materialise.
But that means they're down a lot of money and it means that the streaming service would have to recoup that. Per-show it won't (though in total even a modest success for a DC-only service would probably make far more than $40m) so, because they now have to re-think their productions, find new places to shoot where there are actual rebates and so on, for now the service would only be re-run material, which they're already showing elsewhere on their existing tv platforms.
It's sad for those working on it, but it's not the end of the world and probably outside DC's control.
