Spartacus: House of Ashur

Cybsled said:

One key thing from that article is Starz and Lionsgate split, which meant Starz no longer had ownership rights to the show. That probably meant any future season would have cost them more money if they greenlit it and they'd probably rather spend the money on something that can replace the audience hole that will be left by Outlander ending.

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Starz still holds exclusivity over Lionsgate releases despite the split. It's not a clean break in terms of agreements. Mostly financial as you said.

Amazon has second run on Lionsgate productions only after Starz allows it.

In any case, Lionsgate isn't going to go out of there way to do a new deal with a new streaming service. So if Amazon and Roku aren't interested, then this is dead in the water-- short of some fanatic at Netflix or HBO going out of there way to offer Lionsgate a large sum.