When it comes to Netflix and its recent entry into original programming with the likes of House of Cards and the highly anticipated fourth season of Arrested Development, it's difficult to ignore the potential for future streaming content.

In a recent interview with Stuff , Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos was asked about a slew of different shows and projects and how much potential there was for them to get new episodes via the streaming service. With Arrested Development producer Ron Howard also attempting to get a hybrid movie/TV series version of Stephen King's The Dark Tower off the ground for years, could that be a good fit for Netflix?

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"I spoke to Ron about it, actually," Sarandos said. "The last time we talked about it the thing was being kicked about HBO -- but it's no longer there. Once Arrested Development gets through we'll keep talking about it." The plan has been for The Dark Tower to be a film trilogy and also a TV series, which would intertwine with the movies, so it remains to be seen how the movie portion would work if Netflix became involved.And what about reviving another cult show like, say, oh, I don't know... Firefly? Well, it seems Sarandos doesn't feel the audience for that Joss Whedon-created series is quite large enough to justify bringing it back. "It's kind of been done, with Serenity, but yeah as a series... Arrested Development was the rarest of birds in that the audience of the show grew larger than the original broadcast audience because people came to discover it years after it was cancelled. The Firefly fan is still the Firefly fan from when it was on TV and there's fewer of them and they're more passionate every year. Whereas with Arrested Development we're going to be serving a multiple of the original audience. Any of the other shows we could bring back would be a fraction of the original audience."Sarandos was also asked about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Jericho, the latter of which was said to be a possibility for a Netflix revival last year. "[Jericho] was on the bubble," he said. "I don't think a day goes by that I don't get an email or a personal handwritten letter about that show."As for Buffy, "That's one that'll come up on everyone's list. She's a great character. If it was my property I'd do infrequent movies. There's not enough kick-ass female characters like that."

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