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on Wednesday September 18 2019, @10:06AM
from the obviously,-Sheldon-Cooper-was-the-better-negotiator dept.
from the obviously,-Sheldon-Cooper-was-the-better-negotiator dept.
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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HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:57PM (6 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:18PM
You misunderstand me (story of my life :D ). It's not, at least in my case, a dislike of TBBT. It's just that it's literally on all the time on various channels. They must be making a billion dollars on worldwide syndication rights alone. Check your local listings. Last I remember on American TV, it was on its regular network, plus TBS, WGN, and various other local networks, sometimes even Big Bang programming marathons! YIKES!
Unavoidable, I tell you!
That said, why would anybody pay so much money for something you can see all the time for free* on OTA TV? Taking it out of circulation for the next 20 years would only do us all a favor!
*incessant American-4-minutes-of-commercials-between-every-seven-minutes-of-programming nonwithstanding.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:57PM (2 children)
They call TBBT "nerd blackface" for a reason.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @06:02PM
Yeah, but stereotypes exist for a reason. The one thing they missed is incessant Monty Python line reciting--but if they had actually done that I might have thrown my TV out the window. I haven't known anybody in real life as extreme as some of the characters on that show, but some have come close. There was one dude I knew back in the 90s, I swear Captain Sweatpants from the comic book store was that guy.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:13AM
Aside: Spike Lee's /Bamboozled/ is a grimly brilliant, and I think much underappreciated, movie, it should really be called "Spike Lee vs. Blackface: The Carnage".
However, whilst you've provided a worthy +1 response, thank you, I do notice that my question has still not been answered. That lack of answer is perhaps the answer.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:20PM
TBBT is a bit Nerdy like "Swordfish" the movie with John Travolta is how hacking actually works. Okay, you could just say like how Hollywood portrays hacking in pretty near every movie. Like NCIS with McGee and Abby both using the same computer and suddenly can hack anything.
TBBT is a comedy show, generally about how people perceive "Nerds" as opposed to the real world. Real world version of a "nerd/geek", Steve Wozniak. Normal guy, who likes computers / tech. Genius, lack of social skills, etc. don't necessarily apply to being a "nerd/geek".
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday September 19 2019, @10:09AM
I mentioned before it might be sort of geeks / dorks that like to watch it, i.e. people that identify with or are amused by the culture, rather than necessarily being into hardcore science themselves. Pseudonerds?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?