Beyond retaining 100% ownership of the Sabrina The Teenage Witch series, Netflix nabbing the supernatural series was also a smart move considering how well Riverdale Season 1 has done on the platform.
That comic-based series, which made its debut on Netflix in the summer, led to a 60% viewership increase on The CW for the show’s Season 2 premiere, which elevated it being to the second most-watched series on the network.
Putting a Riverdale spinoff on Netflix doesn’t appear to worry too many executives at The CW, as even the Executive VP of Marketing and Digital Rick Haskins stated that many Netflix streamers might not even even known where the show originally aired.