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Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 13 2019, @10:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the pray-I-do-not-alter-it-any-further dept.

Chocolate wrote in with a submission that was the inspiration for:

It's difficult to imagine that Friends, a show that ended 15 years ago, could be of any real importance to a modern streaming giant like Netflix.

In fact the sitcom, which features a bunch of 20-somethings living together in a time before streaming was even invented, is US Netflix's second-most watched show.

Today, Netflix announced that it's poised to lose its rights to broadcast the series to its original parent company, Warner, which plans to launch its own streaming service, HBO Max in the first quarter of 2020.

The blow follows another announcement in June that Netflix's number one series, the US version of The Office, is also being snatched back by its creators, NBCUniversal, to be broadcast exclusively in the US on its own yet-to-be-launched streaming service.

Old media, analysts are noting with no small amount of surprise, is suddenly bringing the fight to Netflix, and it looks like Netflix could be the one that gets knocked out, or at least very knocked around.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/tv/huge-threat-to-netflix-revealed/news-story/e86f7778556735d22e4cd9f054fb51af

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @11:38AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @11:38AM (#866554)

    Which is worse: Friends or Big Bang Theory?

    Friends

    Normie tier GenX "comedy" with gay jokes.

    Big Bang Theory

    Millennial ""comedy""

    Some questions don't need answering but BBT is utter garbage.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:10PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:10PM (#866562) Journal

    BBT, aka Nerd Blackface.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:51PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:51PM (#866608) Homepage Journal

    Agreed. Friends is basically normies trying to be interesting, but mostly only interesting to other normies. One character is supposed to be a nerd, but for some reason they think the occasional one liner about dinosaurs is enough for that.

    Big Bang Theory on the other hand is basically for geeks to make fun of nerd stereotypes. takyon's nailed it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @03:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @03:52PM (#866649)

    Normie tier GenX "comedy" with gay jokes.

    They make jokes about gays, or the jokes are really gay?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @01:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @01:15AM (#866766)

      both! [youtube.com]