Will Shadow and Bone be Renewed for Season 3? Right here’s What We Know So Far

Shadow and Bone has been an formidable fantasy collection by Netflix primarily based on Leigh Bardugo’s standard Grishaverse books. The showrunner is Eric Heisserer and the forged options Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, and Ben Barnes.

The primary season of the present premiered on Netflix in April 2021, and season 2 arrived in March 2023. Greater than three months have handed because the launch of the second season however there was no official phrase concerning the renewal of the collection nor the rumored spinoff, Six of Crows.   

The renewal of any Netflix collection comes all the way down to sheer numbers. Netflix analyzes its inner knowledge to know how the viewers is interacting with a specific collection. Versus the hours of viewership, Netflix has now shifted its focus to the completion of a collection. 

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Let’s check out Netflix’s knowledge about Shadow and Bone.

Based on Netflix’s hourly high 10 knowledge, Shadow and Bone featured within the high 10 for 5 weeks, accumulating a complete of 160.79 million hours watched. Right here’s a breakdown of the viewership from week to week:

– March twelfth, 2023, to March nineteenth, 2023: 50.4 million hours considered (Rank 2, 1 week within the high 10)

– March nineteenth, 2023, to March twenty sixth, 2023: 55.03 million hours considered (+9%, Rank 2, 2 weeks within the high 10)

– March twenty sixth, 2023, to April 2nd, 2023: 27 million hours considered (-51%, Rank 3, 3 weeks within the high 10)

– April 2nd, 2023, to April ninth, 2023: 16.74 million hours considered (-38%, Rank 6, 4 weeks within the high 10)

– April ninth, 2023, to April sixteenth, 2023: 11.62 million hours considered (-31%, Rank 9, 5 weeks within the high 10)

The present appears to have been very fashionable at first however that reputation declined over time. This decline in viewership could have contributed to Netflix not renewing it instantly.

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— Shadow And Bone (@shadowandbone_) May 5, 2023

Nevertheless, there are different components at play. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is chargeable for the unsure way forward for plenty of exhibits. Additionally contemplating that one other season will take two extra years to return out, the curiosity may fully wane out.

Sophie Holland, the casting director for the collection, expressed hope for a 3rd season in an interview with Deadline in late Might 2023. She mentioned, “We’re actually hoping for a 3rd season. It appears to have an enormous fan base. It’s a contemporary, up-and-coming forged, and the story may be very trustworthy to the books, which is refreshing. It’s all about that first month’s efficiency on Netflix, I suppose, so we’ll discover out quickly if it’s being recommissioned. It’s a tough time, as you famous, so we’ll see.”