Canadian shows like Schitt’s Creek and Kim’s Convenience leave Netflix Canada

Six Canadian TV exhibits have been faraway from Netflix in Canada.

As of March 1st, Schitt’s Creek, Kim’s Comfort, Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland, When Calls the Coronary heart and The Nice Canadian Baking Present are now not on the streaming service.

In an announcement to Daily Hive, a spokesperson for CBC, the community behind all six exhibits, confirmed that it opted to not renew its licence with Netflix. “CBC now desires to privilege its personal free streaming platform for audiences in Canada,” stated the spokesperson, referring to CBC’s Gem service.

Certain sufficient, all of those exhibits can be found to stream on CBC Gem without cost with advertisements or for $4.99/month ad-free. Because the spokesperson factors out, the Netflix licencing deal for a lot of of those exhibits was made earlier than CBC Gem even launched. Regardless of this, the spokesperson stated CBC would nonetheless work with Netflix and different streamers on collection like Workin’ Mothers and Fakes.

These are the most recent outstanding exhibits to depart Netflix on account of expiring licences. Final month, Netflix confirmed that every one 5 seasons of Arrested Growth, together with the 2 produced solely for its service, are leaving its catalogue on March 15th. And final 12 months, once-Netflix authentic exhibits like Marvel’s Daredevil and Marvel’s Jessica Jones left the service to go to Disney+.

This has all come amid a bumpy interval for Netflix. In 2022, the streamer had two consecutive quarters of subscriber losses, though it did bounce back and beat subscriber expectations in its most recent quarter. Nonetheless, the corporate has additionally confronted steep competitors from the plethora of different streaming companies in the marketplace, together with Disney+, Amazon’s Prime Video, Hulu and HBO Max.

As a part of its efforts to chop prices, the corporate has cancelled a slew of shows and, extra controversially, started to crack down on password sharing in Canada. The latter transfer has resulted in many people saying they’ll cancel Netflix to keep away from paying further to share their accounts.

Picture credit score: CBC

Supply: Daily Hive