Sabrina has fought everything from evil spirits to Satan himself, but it seems that even she is powerless against the true Dark Lord, otherwise known as Netflix.
After three seasons, the Spellmans will finally leave this plane of existence following one last chapter when season 4 premieres later this year on December 31.
The news came just days after Katy Keene was cancelled by The CW, which means that by next year, the only Archie-verse show left standing will be Riverdale, the one that started it all.
Yep, that's right. Despite falling ratings and increasingly negative reviews, the show where school students fend off psychotic cults and the occasional bear will be returning for a fifth season while Sabrina comes to an end.
Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa reacted to the news a day later on Twitter, saying:
"Our final chilling adventure begins this fall on Netflix. Hold on tight. So proud of this show, so grateful to everyone who worked on it!"
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Given how tight-lipped Netflix can be when it comes to their viewing figures, it's impossible to compare ratings, but Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has certainly been received better by critics than Riverdale ever has.
Sabrina fans had a lot of feelings about this, questioning why Netflix would choose to cancel everyone's favourite teenage witch while Riverdale carries on being Riverdale.
Whatever you might think of either show, there's one obvious reason why Netflix didn't choose to cancel Riverdale, and that's because they physically can't.
While Netflix does stream the Adventures of Archiekins internationally, Riverdale is actually produced by The CW, an American network, which means the fate of this show lies in their hands, and not that of the streaming giant.
Some might still question why The CW would choose to keep Riverdale going after season four scored the show's latest ratings yet, but networks operate in a very different way to online streamers. Even if Riverdale isn't as popular as it once was, The CW still makes money off the show via adverts which run throughout each episode.
Absurd moments like Jughead's "death" continue to generate online buzz too, even if most of that buzz is trash talk aimed at the show's increasingly bizarre storylines. And it doesn't hurt that most of the men in Riverdale don't know how to put a shirt on either.
Still, none of that explains why Netflix chose to cancel Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
The streaming giant hasn't explained yet why this decision was made, and it's possible they never will. However, Sabrina's cancellation is just one of many recent axeings which point towards a wider trend at the company.
In the past, the success of TV was usually measured by how long a show would run, but that's no longer the case when it comes to Netflix's business model.
By the time a show has hit its third or fourth season, ratings tend to level out. Renewing shows beyond this point might keep regular viewers happy, but it doesn't provide the kind of variety needed to draw in new audiences. On top of that, long-running shows usually become more expensive over time due to pay rises and increasing budgets.
Rather than funnel more money into long-running shows, Netflix tends to prioritise new titles that can increase audience engagement, and therefore bring in more money with new subscribers.
There will always be exceptions like Stranger Things, which are considered an event unto themselves, but unfortunately, Sabrina couldn't quite conjure up the same level of interest.
Still, in a world where Netflix has saved the likes of Lucifer and given others like Sense8 an extra send-off, it's possible that fan outrage could be enough to reverse Sabrina's cancellation, at least, in the short term.
And even if that doesn't work, other cancelled Netflix shows have occasionally gone on to find a new lease of life on other platforms or networks.
While Tuca and Bertie is the latest fan-favourite show to be revived this way, there's often a clause in place which prevents titles from airing elsewhere in the short-term, and this could be the case with Sabrina too.
The bottom line then is call up your coven and make some magic happen. Hecate can't help us now, so it's up to Sabrina fans to change Netflix's mind with online petitions and ongoing conversations. And failing all that, it's still possible that the likes of Salem might eventually pop up in Riverdale for a cameo once Sabrina has come to an end.
The powers-that-be might think Riverdale is too grounded in the real world for a full-blown crossover, but on a show where floating babies are the norm, it wouldn't take much for Sabrina to leave Greendale and cast a spell over Archie's gang across Sweetwater River.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 3 is streaming now on Netflix. Season 4 will arrive later in 2020.
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