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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @03:43PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @03:43PM (#866646)

    From TFS:

    [...] 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. [...]

    I was under the impression that "The Jeffersons" was the most-watched show.

  • (Score: 1) by hwertz on Saturday July 13 2019, @04:24PM

    by hwertz (8141) on Saturday July 13 2019, @04:24PM (#866659)

    " 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"

    Well, last time I was at a friends with Netflix, when I just decided what I'd like to watch... "I'll try watching this... they don't have it. OK, 2nd choice... don't have it.. 3rd choice... nope they have season 5, the want I want is in season 7. 4th choice... nope."

    They have a lot of shows, but there are many many shows they DON'T have too. I think Friends was a terrible show (I can't point to any specific flaw, I just found it not funny at all while others would be laughing their ass off at whatever was going on...) but I could see it being one of the top shows on there.