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HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 18 2019, @10:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the obviously,-Sheldon-Cooper-was-the-better-negotiator dept.

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870140/big-bang-theory-hbo-max-streaming-exclusive-worth-billion-seinfeld-netflix-friends-the-office

Just one day after Netflix secured the streaming rights to Seinfeld in a deal reportedly worth more than $500 million, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max has gone one step further, acquiring the rights to The Big Bang Theory in a deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion.

The deal gives WarnerMedia’s HBO Max the exclusive domestic streaming rights for five years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That means another streaming service could carry the show in global markets. The deal also extends the syndication deal between Warner Bros. Television and TBS through 2028.

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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday September 18 2019, @12:48PM (4 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Wednesday September 18 2019, @12:48PM (#895612) Journal

    You're not alone, I've never even watched TBBT, because just from the title alone I already knew that their humor just wouldn't be funny to me. And every time I happen to see it when flipping channels, the way that they dress up those actors as nerds confirms this.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:53PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:53PM (#895670) Homepage
    I just found a "best of" and spent a whisker over half an hour cringing at how terrible it was. Thank god I don't have HBO, I just wish I could forget what torrents and youtube are so that I never have to see any more in my life!
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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Mykl on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:39PM (2 children)

    by Mykl (1112) on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:39PM (#895854)

    I've never even watched TBBT...

    My pet peeve: People who are so indifferent to a show that they will open and (maybe) read an article about it, then participate in the comments section and take the time to write a post about how they don't care.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by inertnet on Wednesday September 18 2019, @11:03PM (1 child)

      by inertnet (4071) on Wednesday September 18 2019, @11:03PM (#895883) Journal

      Well, I'm not going to post about the many other shows that I'm indifferent about. But this particular show appears to make tons of money off ridiculing nerdy types. I have never liked humor at the cost of others, and this show attempts to make fun of a group that many people would put me in. You cannot make me watch it, but I can certainly have an opinion about it.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Mykl on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:36AM

        by Mykl (1112) on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:36AM (#895918)

        Fair enough.

        FWIW, I see the jokes as more of a roast of Nerd Culture than denigrating nerds.

        I seem to recall that Chuck Lorre created TBBT as a passion project, and was only given the green light to write a Sitcom about nerds because of his success with Two and a Half Men (I suspect that TBBT was also an attempt to wash the taste of Two and a Half Men out of his mouth).