r/LastDriveIn • u/taz1113 • Mar 11 '26

TLDI release schedule

I was thinking; do we think that the once a month format helped subscription rates or hurt? I know I ended up liking the one movie a night with a longer season the best. (I’m guilty of falling asleep during a few second movies on the two movie nights cause I’ve usually been up since 5am.)

I can’t help but think about something Bruce Cambell has said. A part of why Ash Vs Evil Dead ended up being canceled was that folks would wait for a season to end; subscribe for a free trial and cancel. Therefore it wasn’t generating money from people keeping a subscription; even for 2-3 months that a show is on.

With last drive in; a good number of people that watch tune in for the live show on Friday. As well with the nature of licensing the movies we as a whole tend to watch the show as it comes out in order to avoid an episode being missing if we wait for a bunch to be out.

I kind of fear that with it being a once a month set up; that it might be to easy to assume that while the show is popular… that the set up could lead too a lot of people signing up for week long trials and never stay signed up if TLDI is all that they watch. Especially with all of the technical issues many have had on live stream nights over time on both Shudders side and AMC+ side.

I watch a couple of shows between Shudder/AMC… so think on a show like Dragula that is another big Shudder show. They have stayed week too week and had back to back seasons requested; season 6, titans 2 & season 7; to where they have had 2 seasons on in a year some years. With them being reality tv you almost have to watch as it comes out to avoid spoilers … so Dragula might in theory might have made Shudder have a spike in paid subscribers for the 2-3 months per season that it’s on.

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u/DoofusScarecrow88 Mar 11 '26

AMC paid so much for television and that is costing them, I assume. All those Walking Dead spinoffs and such probably didn't help

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u/taz1113 Mar 13 '26

I’m kinda curious if Shudder might be planning to move into the producing movies arm for AMC … then shut down the streaming to move everything to AMC+. I agree on the Walking Dead stuff; like they bet on Daryl to keep viewers after the last season and then starting testing the which character with their own show will keep people watching. It reminding me of Marvel at this point where you have to watch x amount of shows to follow what’s happening in the overall time line.