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: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:15PM (1 child)
I don't watch TV anymore: I search for "Best British comedies", etc, and then acquire them...errrr...with ways.
Watching Misfits currently.
When I do watch TV now....oh Dog, the COMMERCIALS! KILL ME!
Shows acquired with...ways...I'd sit through some commercials.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:49PM
I hear you. Commercials killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. The way the jacked up the volume to top-notch was the straw that broke the camel's back for us. We asked DirecTV several times to stop it, but of course they didn't. So we cut the cord, got fiber & Netflix streaming, and never looked back. They spent the next 6 years begging us to come back.
Actually the fiber company reps were mystified when we told them clearly and directly and with an increasingly firmer tone that, no, we did not want Cable bundled into our package, even if it only cost $5/mo more, because we did not want that crap coming into our home.
Voting with your feet and dollars is the only kind of voting that still matters.
Washington DC delenda est.