You’re gonna have to wait for more Jessica Jones on Netflix

During the Television Critics Association press tour, per Screencrush, Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos noted that the current schedule for Marvel-Netflix shows will be two a year – so we’ll fill that quota for this year with the September 30 release of Luke Cage.

Co-showrunner Doug Petrie would seem to agree, telling The Hollywood Reporter that “we know that fans want to see more of [Kingpin]”.

Mr Sarandos acknowledged that the media was curious about who was watching Netflix’s programs but said third-party data companies often reported conflicting data about the same titles.

“Subscriber growth, not advertising, drives our revenues”, Sarandos said.

That, though – while an entirely reasonable, if not exactly fan-pleasing, logic – wasn’t all that Sarandos had to say. “Either number, if true, would be great for Netflix”.

While this doesn’t definitively confirm The Punisher will appear in The Defenders, Sarandos’ comment makes it sound very likely the character introduced in Daredevil season 2 could be involved in the upcoming series. Daredevil lost its showrunners, Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez to The Defenders, so that series will either need a new showrunner or else it will be on hold until Petrie and Ramirez finish the miniseries. The service now has more than 83 million subscribers worldwide.

“[Pre-existing properties] also have some output deal complexities”.

“We grew much much faster than we expected in Q1 and slower than we expected in Q2”, he said.

Sarandos said adding new territories has come slowly because each one presents specific challenges and logistical hurdles.

“We’re hitting where we said we would a year ago”. Sarandos cited various factors that contributed to the lower results.

In January, Netflix confirmed it would have launched in a total of 190 countries by the end of 2016.

Netflix stock recently took a hit on a missed new-subscriber target.