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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.
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:39PM (7 children)
I heard a rumor that there will be a new Friends sequel in which all dialog between characters takes place via smartphone.
(Score: 2, Funny) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:52PM (3 children)
I heard a rumor that I am starting right now where there will be a reboot of friends where they live in a totalitarian society where you only care about people who let you live in their million dollar apartment for reduced rent and the word 'friends' means that your only intention is to spy on them and submit their data to the military and various fanatical religious cults.
And they will be homeless because irritating people without life skills cannot lead a middle class life if their parents disown them because they didn't vote for President Undertaker.
So it's going to be kindof a cross between Orange is the New Black and Requiem for a Dream, until in the 39th anniversary season they all get drafted in their late 40s to face the choice of clearing minefields near Tehran or hunting mega-pythons in Baltimore.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:56PM
Spoiler Alert: They will choose to fight the pythons and the show will achieve its greatest ratings of all time.
Friends: Python Hunter 2034 - FPH Baltimore, Python Boogaloo
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:47PM (1 child)
Wait, is this the Chinese or the Russian knockoff? It's so hard to tell. More information please.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:56PM
It will be called GoodFriends
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:03PM (1 child)
But you don't get to see what they're texting. Riveting.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Rupert Pupnick on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:32PM
True, the text is blurred out, but you can read the banner ads.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Saturday July 13 2019, @05:32PM
The problem with modern remakes is the studios think they "have to" appeal to leftists and the Overton Window is moving so fast for leftists that today's commie propaganda is tomorrows smashable fascist, and everybody knows they have to publicly support it but nobody actually likes it or watches it.
Now what I'd like to see is a brave studio try right wing appeal. Give us "Friends" with Archie Bunker humor or some kind of weekly series conversion of "Gran Torino" or "American History X" or similar. That would get a heck of a lot of viewers.
You can have a lot of fun taking some purple haired modern SJW and showing them some youtube clips from Archie Bunker and after they foam at the mouth about how the writers and studio were obviously nazis then you get to have even more fun explaining that they were not white nazis but the stereotypical leftist Jews and their mind gets blown.
Just imagine "Gran Torino: the weekly soap opera" I'd pay money for that. That scene where he takes the kid to the barber shop to teach him how to talk like a man still cracks me up a decade later.