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Netflix Renews Nobody Wants This for Season Four

Renewed fifteen days after Season 3 landed, despite an audience down 26% on Season 2. The number that saved it grew in week two.

Watching at home. Season 3 grew in its second week, which Netflix seasons rarely do. (Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0)
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Netflix renewed Nobody Wants This for Season 4 on November 6, two weeks after Season 3 premiered to 13.4 million views in 11 days.

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Netflix renewed Nobody Wants This for a fourth season on November 6, fifteen days after its third season premiered. [Nobody Wants This Season 4 renewed by Netflix: the facts — Filmoria, citing TheWrap, TVLine, Deadline and Netflix Top 10]

Season 3, which landed October 22, drew 13.4 million views in its first 11 days by Netflix's Top 10 count. That's down about 26 percent on Season 2's 18 million, itself well short of Season 1's 26.2 million. Netflix renewed it anyway. [Nobody Wants This Season 4 renewed by Netflix: the facts — Filmoria, citing TheWrap, TVLine, Deadline and Netflix Top 10]

Erin Foster's romantic comedy pairs Kristen Bell, an agnostic podcaster, with Adam Brody, a rabbi, and the renewal arrived with no cliffhanger wait for its audience. One number inside the decline runs the other way: Season 3 grew in its second week, from 6.2 million views in its opening frame to 7.2 million in its first full week, which is the opposite of how Netflix seasons usually decay. Word of mouth was still building the audience while the season-over-season comparison was shrinking it. [Nobody Wants This Season 4 renewed by Netflix: the facts — Filmoria, citing TheWrap, TVLine, Deadline and Netflix Top 10]

Season 4 will film in Los Angeles. Netflix has announced no premiere date and no episode count; the show's yearly cadence points to autumn 2027, which is a pattern, not a promise. The business read is in the shape of the show itself: a half-hour comedy with two leads and no effects budget doesn't need Season 1's audience to justify Season 4. It needs an audience that keeps showing up, and 13.4 million views in 11 days, growing in week two, is what that looks like. [Nobody Wants This Season 4 renewed by Netflix: the facts — Filmoria, citing TheWrap, TVLine, Deadline and Netflix Top 10]

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