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Season 3 of ‘The Witcher’ is being replaced after a few days on Netflix’s Top 10 list by a stand-up comedy special.
The other top-placing shows on the list have been Suits after a move to Netflix syndication, a documentary about American Gladiators, and season 2 of the Idiocracy-adjacent series Is It Cake?
Now, The Witcher has been dethroned by Tom Segura: Sledgehammer a one hour comedy special. Segura apparently has five other comedy specials on Netflix besides this one, which started in 2014. I guess he’s been a fixture on the service for a while, but now he’s reaching new levels of popularity.
While Netflix has not yet released viewership numbers for The Witcher season 3 (only the first five episodes have been released out of eight so far), indications are that they’re not great.
Of course, many people are ditching the show because they know it’s about to lose Henry Cavill as Geralt, who will be replaced by Liam Hemsworth in the already-renewed seasons 4 and 5. This led Netflix to produce a hard-to-believe tweet on the official Witcher account which advertised a (fake) ad campaign that reads “Yes, he’s still Geralt in season 3 of The Witcher.”