Netflix Cancels 'Haters Back Off'

Just a year or so ago, it was virtually unheard of for a Netflix original series to get cancelled. Now, although it's still nearly a given that every new series will get a second season, it's getting harder for series to hold through three or more seasons. The latest casualty is Haters Back Off, the comedy series based on a YouTube channel that failed to draw much of an audience on the streaming service. Haters was picked up for a second season last year, but Netflix will not be producing a third.

Via Deadline.

Netflix has opted not to renew comedy series Haters Back Off for a third season.

The streaming service took a swing with Haters Back Off, based on popular YouTube personality Colleen Ballinger’s oddball character Miranda Sings. From the little Netflix viewership data provided by measurement companies, it appears that Haters Back Off got off a solid start last year, earning a second-year renewal, but in the long run, Ballinger’s huge YouTube following did not quite translate into streaming audience for her Netflix series.

It is unclear whether YouTube, which over the last year entered the high-end scripted space with series that often feature popular YouTube personalities, would possibly step in to pick up Haters Back Off. 

Haters Back Off, from Brightlight Pictures, delved into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings. An incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise, Sings continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it’s just no one knows it yet.

The series starred Ballinger as Miranda Sings, Steve Little as Miranda’s overly confident and utterly misguided Uncle Jim, Angela Kinsey as Miranda’s mom, Bethany, Erik Stocklin, as Miranda’s neighbor and best friend, Patrick, and Francesca Reale as Miranda’s sister, Emily.

Colleen Ballinger, Christopher Ballinger, Perry Rein, Gigi McCreery, Jeff Kwatinetz and Josh Barry served as executive producers.

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