The wait is over, you can finally see this adorable panda cub Viral 'Charlie bit my finger' video to be taken down. Here's why (CNN) — “One Day at a Time” won’t be returning to Netflix. The streaming giant announced the show’s cancellation on Thursday after three seasons. Based on the hit show created by Normal Lear that premiered in 1975, the reboot featured a Cuban-American family and touched on topical themes. “It’s been a great honor to work with the legendary Norman Lear on One Day at a Time. I’ve personally spoken with Norman and co-creators Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce to express my gratitude to them, all the writers, the dedicated crew and the cast, including the brilliant Justina Machado and dazzling Rita Moreno, for creating a series with such humor, heart and humanity,” Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement. “This was a very difficult decision, and we’re thankful to all the fans who’ve supported the series, our partners at Sony and all the critics who embraced it. While it’s disappointing that more viewers didn’t discover One Day at a Time, I believe the series will stand the test of time,” Sarandos added. Related: Marvel TV’s superhero universe on Netflix officially comes to an end The show starred Machado as an Iraq veteran, raising her children with her mother, played by Moreno. “I don’t even know how to begin to express my gratitude to everyone. Truly, I am so honored that we got to tell our stories. Yes it was a Latinx family but it was a universal story about family and love. An American Familia,” Machado tweeted. I’m so grateful to have played Penelope Alvarez. I don’t even know how to begin to express my gratitude to everyone. Truly, I am so honored that we got to tell our stories .Yes it was a Latinx family but it was a universal story about family and love. An American Familia ❤️ — Justina Machado (@JustinaMachado) March 14, 2019 “One Day at a Time” is among several shows recently canceled by Netflix, including “Friends From College,” “Jessica Jones” and “The Punisher.”<doc-sep>Following Lydia’s stroke, Season 3 framed itself around the question of what comes after a life-changing event. Lydia resisted adjusting the habits that put her health at risk. Elena, whose father reacted poorly when she came out to him as a lesbian in the first season, struggled with her dad’s attempts to make amends. Schneider, a recovering alcoholic, relapsed and despaired at the thought of starting over in his sobriety. One Day at a Time’s final season at Netflix wound up being the one that most lived up to its title: Change, the show argued, is possible only in small steps taken daily. While Lydia was in the hospital, Schneider recalled a visit she paid him during one of his previous stints in rehab: “You told me, ‘You eat this, you get some sleep, and tomorrow, you try again.’” One Day at a Time was that kind of show: relentlessly hopeful not in spite of how hard life can be, but because of it. In Season 3, Lydia drafted what she called a “bouquet list,” her spin on a bucket list. “It is an arrangement of all of the beautiful things you still want to do before you kick the bucket,” she explained. The heartbeat of One Day at a Time was its spirited insistence that beauty can thrive alongside pain. The series blended multicam-sitcom laughs with a fearless willingness to tackle heavy social issues. It was entertaining for reasons beyond its cultural relevance, but it was relevant, and it gave voice to a number of demographics that are still underrepresented on television, including Latinx families, immigrants, single mothers, LGBTQ teens, and veterans dealing with PTSD. Netflix understood why fans clung to the show, which only made the optics of the cancellation worse. The streaming service took the rare approach of using Twitter to announce the “very difficult decision” not to renew One Day at a Time for a fourth season. “We spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work,” the thread reads, “but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season.” Netflix is notoriously tight-lipped about program ratings, except when they’re staggering, meaning the statement placed blame on the one factor in the cancellation that no one outside the company could really understand or accept. It was like passing the buck to a ghost. But the idea that One Day at a Time’s future was ever outside Netflix’s control was an illusion. The cast, showrunners, and fans were left to push for the show’s renewal on social media because Netflix had failed to give the throwback sitcom the same robust promotion it had given other buzzy original series, such as Stranger Things and 13 Reasons Why. Hot off an expensive Oscars campaign for Roma, the company has been touting itself as a platform for diverse voices, but that commitment feels hollow when one of its most inclusive shows was given so few opportunities to find an audience.<doc-sep>“Oh this is some bull,” tweeted Rolling Stone TV critic Alan Sepinwall about Netflix’s announcement on March 14 that they’re cancelling “One Day at a Time” after three seasons. Well, Sepinwall tweeted a gif of Justina Machado from the show saying that, but the sentiment applies across the internet, from Twitter to our own forums. Netflix‘s statement on Twitter read, “We’ve made the very difficult decision not to renew ‘One Day at a Time‘ for a fourth season. The choice did not come easily — we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season.” Though the streaming service has been notoriously mum about what the viewership figures for its shows and movies actually are. SIGN UPfor Gold Derby’s free newsletter with latest predictions But is it possible the series could find another home? There’s no shortage of cable, TV and streaming outlets these days. It wasn’t long ago that “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” was picked up by NBC after being cancelled by FOX, and now “Brooklyn” is coming back for yet another season. As “One Day” co-star Isabella Gomez tweeted, “We might find #ODAAT another home. This isn’t over yet.” Lin-Manuel Miranda, a champion of the show, concurred: “Not over by a long shot.” Their lips to Amazon or Hulu’s ears. Check out a few of the reactions of our forum posters below along with tweets from the cast, crew and fans of the series. moviefan617: “Man, this f*cking sucks. This show was so wonderful. It was telling important stories and revitalizing a dormant format. I know Gloria Calderon Kellett has multiple pilots in production this season, but I hope the cast is able to land on their feet (get Justina Machado in a starring vehicle ASAP). I will so miss this beautiful little show.” Sean Phillips: “Netflix seems to be cancelling or forcing a lot of shows to have finales when they don’t have any ownership in them. A lot of these shows they licensed when they wanted to make a name for themselves in original content and now that they have they’re purging the outside shows.” AWDubay: “NOOOOOOOO, I’m sooooo mad!” Annnnd, we might find #ODAAT another home. This isn’t over yet. https://t.co/lCB0vSnCWF — Isabella Gomez (@Isabella_Gomez) March 14, 2019 This is really sad for literally everyone. https://t.co/nSRiCV404W — Kelly Lawler (@klawls) March 14, 2019 Latinx people deserve to see themselves on screen, & not just as flat stereotypes, but as the flushed out beautiful whole beings they are. That is what Gloria and her team achieved. I wish you all could have weighed the power of representation and transformative work over $ — Kellee Terrell (@kelleent) March 14, 2019 Be sure to make your Emmy predictions today so that Hollywood insiders can see how their TV shows and performers are faring in our odds. You can keep changing your predictions as often as you like until just before nominations are announced on July 16. And join in the fun debate over the 2019 Emmy taking place right now with Hollywood insiders in our television forums. Read more Gold Derby entertainment news.<doc-sep>It was a show that made the zany travails of a California-based Latino family relatable and universal, and the cast included acclaimed screen legend Rita Moreno. So it was no surprise that hundreds of thousands of fans and supporters of the Netflix show "One Day at a Time" overwhelmingly responded to the company's tweet Thursday that it was canceling the sitcom after three seasons. The outcry went viral, with the hashtags #SaveODAAT and #OneDayAtATime trending on Twitter almost immediately after Netflix broke the news. Not even award-winning TV legend Norman Lear understands why Netflix decided not to renew the remake of his 1970’s sitcom. “I can’t thank Netflix enough and our partners at Sony enough for the three seasons, but I wish I could understand Netflix’s decision to not pick us up for a fourth,” Lear, who is one of the show's producers, said in a statement. “Is there really so little room in business for love and laughter?” According to Netflix, “not enough people watched to justify another season." There is no publicly available information about how many people have watched the show; Netflix is known for being secretive about its viewership data. In most cases, Netflix doesn’t even share this information with the directors and the stars involved in its productions. In the past, the company has said that its business model is centered around its hundreds of million of subscribers, not advertisers — meaning that its user base, and not viewership, is Netflix’s focus. “They [Netflix] claim that they don’t see numbers,” Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, told NBC News. “I always find that hard to believe … which one is it? For years, they’ve been saying that they don’t care about numbers and now they do.” NHMC has praised the show and mounted campaigns around previous seasons, calling for its continuation. In a previous interview with CNBC, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said “our hit ratio is way too high right now. ... I’m always pushing the content team, ‘We have to take more risk. You have to try more crazy things.’ Because we should have a higher cancel rate overall.” But "One Day at a Time" has generated fierce loyalty and support, in part because the show has received high marks for getting Latino representation right. It has also tackled issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and veterans' issues (the mom in the show is a military veteran), LGBTQ storylines (the teenage daughter comes out as gay), and cultural and racial stereotypes (the Cuban-American family's son is told to "go back to Mexico" by school bullies). Broadway's "Hamilton" creator and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda essentially kicked off the social media campaign after tweeting: “‘Yknow, that Latinx audience is SO vast and SO underserved...if only we had a show that we KNOW would have a passionate, young fanbase…’ [said] Every TV exec everywhere. Us: Haaaave you met #ODAAT” Celebrities such as "Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s" Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero and "Queer Eye’s " Karamo Brown followed Miranda’s lead, asking other networks to pick up show. “I am heartbroken. The Latinx community NEEDS this show,” Fumero tweeted. “ITS A GREAT, FUNNY, & HEART FELT SHOW… SOMEONE SAVE IT! “ Showrunners Gloria Calderón-Kellett and Mike Royce, alongside the show's studio, Sony Pictures Television, publicly put out feelers about finding a new home for the show sometime this year. “Good morning networks. I’ve met with you in the past & you’ve said ‘If only we had @OneDayAtATime’ Good news.... we can be yours! We can easily do a reset so that those not familiar with the show will get all the info they need. Call Sony. The fight continues,” Calderón-Kellett said on Twitter. Shows have been "saved." Can “ODAAT” be next? As people continue to #SaveODAAT, some have brought up instances in which television shows have been picked up by other networks after being canceled. For example, country music TV show "Nashville" was picked up by CMT in 2016 after being dropped by ABC. Four years prior, ABC had dropped the comedy “Cougar Town,” which later found a new home in TBS. And last year, Amazon picked up “The Expanse” after SyFy canceled the show. The most recent example is the comedy cop TV show “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” Fox decided to cancel the show after five seasons, but NBC picked it up for a sixth season. This was a fairly easy transition because “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” was already produced by NBC’s studios, even though it aired on Fox. In the case of “One Day At A Time,” it’s not that simple. The show was distributed by Netflix but produced by Sony Pictures Television, which unlike NBC’s studios, is not affiliated to a TV network that could air the show. Instead, they would have to actively pitch the sitcom to a company that can handle the show’s on-air distribution. Nogales really hopes the show gets picked up again. “All it takes is one leader of that [media] company to say, 'this is a good show, let’s put it up,'" he said. NHMC has referred to “One Day At A Time” as a guiding light, "a true north in an industry grappling with issues of diversity, equity and inclusivity." Groups such as the NHMC and others cite studies that show Latinos are underrepresented across all areas of the entertainment industry. “Latinos are 18 percent of the [U.S.] population, but then when you look at the numbers in film and TV, they are just not there,” Ana-Christina Ramón, co-author of the UCLA diversity report, previously told NBC. “When Latinos are portrayed, they are often presented as criminals or immigrants, or in a one-dimensional fashion, so there is no way to counteract stereotypes if people are not interacting with Latinos in real life.” While Nogales and others consider “One Day At A Time” a win for diversity and representation in Hollywood, he said the legacy of the Emmy-nominated sitcom goes beyond that.<doc-sep>
A month after dropping the third season of “One Day at a Time,” Netflix announced that it won’t be renewing the acclaimed series for a fourth. It wasn’t a huge surprise; the scrappy family sitcom has been fighting for its life since day one, doing its best to stand out amidst Netflix’s increasingly enormous tidal waves of content. And yet every season found the show up against the wall, forced to justify its own existence by pointing out just how groundbreaking its heartfelt depiction of a Latinx family truly is and could continue to be, if Netflix would keep putting its money where its mouth is. Canceling its own shows is Netflix’s right (and not for nothing, “One Day at a Time” being produced by Sony and not Netflix proper certainly had to be a factor, whether the streamer will admit it or not). But the way in which this particular cancellation unfolded in light of Netflix’s recent push to tout its commitment to diversity represented the company at its most frustrating. There’s so much to be frustrated about with this cancellation. First, there’s the basic fact of its singularity in the vast (and vastly repetitive) TV landscape, now snuffed out unless Sony can successfully shop the series to another network. (For what it’s worth, the odds of this seem low; Netflix exclusively owns the licensing rights to the first three seasons and is unlikely to give those up.) Based on Norman Lear’s 1970’s sitcom of the same name, and boasting the legendary producer as an integral creative voice, “One Day at a Time” is smart, funny, and, most crucially, empathetic toward people who rarely get such attention and consideration. Justina Machado’s Penelope, an army veteran struggling with anxiety and depression while single-handedly supporting her family, is a mother figure that TV rarely represents. Her daughter Elena (Isabella Gomez) came out as gay in the first season, and subsequently became one of the most realistic and grounded teen lesbians to ever grace TV. And if all that doesn’t convince you of the show’s worth, perhaps Rita “EGOT” Moreno will, since her every flamboyant entrance has more spark than most comedies are lucky to find within an entire season. Over three seasons, “One Day at a Time” tackled racism, addiction, citizenship, mental health, and the evolution of LGBTQ acceptance with astonishing nuance — and it did so while centering working class Latinx characters who almost never get to be the stars of their own stories. At a time when racist dog whistles dominate political debate and demonizing Latinx people is par for the course, “One Day at a Time” provided a respite that isn’t just a relief, but a necessity. Netflix understood the cultural significance of the show. As co-showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett tweeted shortly after the third season premiered in February, the company “made clear that they love the show, love how it serves underrepresented audiences, love its heart & humor, but…we need more viewers.” From there, Calderon Kellet, her co-showrunner Mike Royce, and the cast embarked on an earnest social media campaign to drum up attention for the show. The swell of support was heartwarming, but it was startling and frankly depressing to watch them take Netflix’s job into their own hands. They were, in essence, forced to beg the internet for their jobs while Netflix keeps trumpeting its diverse bonafides in order to prove the platform’s power. But as per Netflix, that campaign was unsuccessful, and the show’s apparently soft numbers ultimately led to its definitive cancellation. Both chief content officer Ted Sarandos and the main Netflix Twitter account emphasized the relative lack of viewers in their statements on the cancellation, concluding that “simply not enough people watched to justify another season.” Of course, we’ll probably never know what “not enough people” means, since Netflix never releases specific numbers to the public unless it’s to say that a show or movie is “on track” to garner 40 million viewers. But every network is well within its rights to cancel or renew a show based on its ratings, and if “One Day at a Time” didn’t make the grade, that is sadly that. Still: even while canceling the show, Netflix tried to have its cake and eat it, too.