{"id":313794,"date":"2025-11-28T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:43:07","slug":"starting-5-run-at-netflix-likely-coming-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313794\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Starting 5\u2019 run at Netflix likely coming to a close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The sports documentary space is robust, but it ain\u2019t easy. I\u2019m hearing that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/30\/starting-5-season-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/30\/starting-5-season-two\/\">Starting 5<\/a>\u201d is getting benched after a two-season run on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The NBA-focused effort tracked five players over the course of the season, and even with a fortuitous ending with two of its characters reaching the seven-game NBA Finals (Pacers G Tyrese Haliburton and Thunder G Shai Gilgeous-Alexander), the audience just wasn\u2019t there to keep the show going. Rockets F Kevin Durant, Clippers G James Harden and Celtics F Jaylen Brown were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/30\/starting-5-season-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">featured in Season 2<\/a>, while Lakers F LeBron James, Kings F Domantas Sabonis, Warriors G Jimmy Butler, T\u2019Wolves G Anthony Edwards and Celtics F Jayson Tatum were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/11\/netflix-starting-five-nba-reax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">featured in Season 1<\/a>. Omaha Productions, James\u2019 SpringHill Co. and Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s Higher Ground were executive producers on the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Netflix\u2019s first batch of internal data for \u201cStarting 5\u201d Season 2 won\u2019t be available until early 2026, but as <a href=\"https:\/\/entertainment.substack.com\/p\/did-netflix-quiet-cancel-starting-5-twits-diplomat-angel-studios-loot?r=2t3xy&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">noted by the Entertainment Strategy Guy<\/a>, various third-party numbers weren\u2019t looking good for the series. Internal Season 1 numbers from Netflix during the second half of 2024 were well behind the NFL docuseries \u201cQuarterback,\u201d and that trend was likely continued in the back of half of this year with both series\u2019 second seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Netflix did not have any comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sports documentary space is robust, but it ain\u2019t easy. I\u2019m hearing that \u201cStarting 5\u201d is getting benched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,435,85],"class_list":["post-313794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-netflix","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}