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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: 2, Funny) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:52PM (3 children)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:52PM (#866583) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:56PM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Saturday July 13 2019, @12:56PM (#866584) Journal

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:47PM (#866607)

    and the word 'friends' means that your only intention is to spy on them and submit their data to the military

    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

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:56PM (#866610) Journal

      It will be called GoodFriends

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