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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:44PM
Seinfeld has been of the air for 20 years. BBT had only gone off the air this year and it probably has more costs associated with it and fewer people have seen the episodes a dozen times. Plus the royalties are probably more due to the increases in salary over the years.