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At the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference on 26 May 2018, Amazon’s then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he had “saved” The Expanse (Otterson 2018). The critically beloved science fiction (SF) series had been cancelled by cable network SyFy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) earlier that month but would now be available through—and new seasons would be produced for—Amazon Prime Video. This announcement came after fans of the series had ardently petitioned cable television networks and subscription video-on-demand services (SVODs) to license the rights to their beloved show. Amazon Prime Video was not a particularly strange destination for the resurrected space opera, though. While other niche entertainment media interests are catered for by specific SVOD services (e.g., Crunchyroll for anime, Shudder for horror and Hayu for reality television), there is currently no “SF streaming service.” After the closure of Legendary Digital’s Alpha in March 2019, the pay-TV channel SyFy remains the (obviously) most prominent “space for SF” on television—and even it could not justify keeping The Expanse on its line-up. At the time of acquiring The Expanse, Amazon Prime Video had already produced two original SF series: The Man in the High Castle and Electric Dreams, both based on stories by the renowned SF author Philip K. Dick. Meanwhile, other prominent US-based generalist SVOD services (Netflix, Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access), Apple TV+ and Disney+) have also developed a substantial stable of original SF programming, with equally substantial budgets. SF television shows and their audiences seem to have finally found a home on “mainstream,” or “first tier” (Lynch and Scarlata 2022) SVOD. But what kind of home is it, and what are the implications for the genre?
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Lynch, A., Scarlata, A. (2023). SVOD: A Place for (Outer) Space?. In: Hawkes, J., Christie, A., Nienhuis, T. (eds) American Science Fiction Television and Space. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10528-9_5
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