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Netflix Cancels The Residence and Pulse After One Season

The move underscores the streamer’s intensified focus on balancing production budgets against audience engagement in renewal decisions.

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Overview

  • On July 2, Netflix canceled Shondaland’s murder mystery The Residence and Zoe Robyn’s medical drama Pulse after their debut seasons and placed Liz Feldman’s No Good Deed on indefinite hiatus.
  • The Residence starred Uzo Aduba as detective Cordelia Cupp, opened with 6.4 million views and spent four weeks in Netflix’s English TV Top 10.
  • Pulse premiered with 6.5 million views as Netflix’s first English-language medical procedural and likewise maintained a four-week run in the Top 10 before audience numbers declined.
  • Netflix cited its standard cost-benefit analysis—weighing hefty production expenses against streaming performance—as the basis for axing both freshman series.
  • No Good Deed retains the possibility of future anthology installments, but Netflix has made no current production plans as it tightens renewal criteria.