{"id":744995,"date":"2026-06-18T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744995\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:15:10","slug":"axed-the-boroughs-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744995\/","title":{"rendered":"Axed: The Boroughs | TV Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t“Stranger Things with seniors” is snuffed out less than a month after its premiere.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Life sure is tough in the word of algorithms and data.<\/p>\n

Less than a month after its streaming premiere, Netflix has axed sci-fi monster series The Boroughs produced by the Duffer Bros.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed \u201cStranger Things with seniors\u201d, the series starring Alfred Molina, Denis O\u2019Hare, Alfre Woodard, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman, Clarke Peters and Ed Begley Jr. centred around a spooky presence at a retirement village in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

But ending so suddenly suggests there must have been poor completion rates by audiences.<\/p>\n

Deadline observes<\/a>, in its first full week The Boroughs drew 9.5m views, but then quickly sank to 3.7m views the next week.<\/p>\n

The Boroughs also involves special effects. The elaborate production, along with its all-star cast, made for a high price tag, something Netflix weighs against viewing when making renewal decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Stranger Things with seniors” is snuffed out less than a month after its premiere. Life sure is tough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-744995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744995","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=744995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}