'One Day at a Time' Will Return on CBS-Owned Cable Network
by EG
Netflix tried to make sure that One Day at a Time, once it was cancelled by the streamer, would have a hard time finding a new home. The series' producers, however, found a way to get around their Netflix contract, and the niche hit will be back on a new network. Read on for details.
Television miracles do not happen easily. Such was the case for One Day at a Time, the reboot of Norman Lear's CBS hit that Netflix canceled four months ago.
On Thursday, Pop TV — the CBS-owned niche cable network home to critical darling Schitt's Creek and syndicated fare like Dawson's Creek — revived the Latinx-themed comedy for a fourth season. The deal followed months of negotiations with multiple networks and streamers and executives at Sony Pictures Television, which produces the series.
The biggest obstacle in finding a new home for ODAAT was Sony's original deal with Netflix. That pact prevented another streaming platform — like CBS All Access, which was among the first to eye a fourth season — from airing the series for a number of years. A lengthy wait like that would have lost any and all momentum for ODAAT and a greater financial marketing and promotional effort from any new streaming home.
In making the historic deal — One Day at a Time becomes the first original scripted series to move from a streamer to a cable network — Sony TV also acquired linear syndication rights to the comedy. That will allow the independent studio to shop the entire ODAAT reboot library and further monetize the series beyond its original deal with Netflix. The studio's Netflix pact was a "cost-plus" deal, meaning the streamer paid Sony an upfront fee that covered the expenses of mounting the show as well as an additional sum.
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