Friends & other CW Shows Likely to Exit Netflix for Warner's New Streaming Service

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Friends, CW Shows Likely to Exit Netflix for Warner's New Streaming Service


By Dave Nemetz / February 11 2019, 3:01 PM PST

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Better binge as much of the Central Perk gang on Netflix while you can: Friends is likely heading to WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service soon, the streamer’s boss says.

“You can expect the crown jewels of Warner” — referring to hit shows like Friends and The Big Bang Theory — “will ultimately end up on the new service,” WarnerMedia chief creative officer Kevin Reilly told reporters at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday. (In fact, both those shows were specifically included in the service’s promotional materials.) And he’s not planning on sharing them with Netflix or any other competitors, either: “Sharing destination assets is not a good model. My belief is they should be exclusive to the service.”


Along with those hit sitcoms, the WarnerMedia streaming service — which still doesn’t have a name or a price point, but is set to launch in beta form by the end of the year — has its eye on CW shows like The Flash, Arrow and Riverdale that currently make Netflix their streaming home. The CW’s output deal with Netflix expires this spring, Reilly points out, and “we’re very interested in putting that on our platform.”

The unnamed service will also offer access to HBO programming and the Warner Bros. library of theatrical films. Original programming is planned as well, but won’t start rolling out until next year.

Friends, which originally aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004, has been available to stream on Netflix since 2015.

The streamer recently paid a reported $100 million to keep Friends through the end of this year — but that agreement is non-exclusive, allowing WarnerMedia’s new service to add Friends as soon as it launches.
 
Not in this instance.

With their resources and catalogue they could combine those services and be an immediate, serious threat to Netflix.
which they are already profiting from

just not as much as they want now that netflix has shown them the way

but netflix has and is dedicated to keeping that market share

i have hulu amazon and netflix there is no way i am adding anymore

:cool:
 
Not in this instance.

With their resources and catalogue they could combine those services and be an immediate, serious threat to Netflix.

:lol:

There is going to be no threat to Netflix...not in the next 5-10 years.

Netflix has this streaming shit ON-LOCK.

The only company that could dethrone them would be a new and unheard of innovator.

These dinosaur companies ranging from Disney to CBS to Warner are not going to push the envelope to innovate. They are only going to stream the content that they own...probably at 720P.

Im not going to front. After Netflix raised their prices, I said that I was going to leave. I found a service called CRAVE here in Canada that is basically a re-branded HBO.

That shit was utter and complete garbage.....720P...buggy interface....limited selection...

I cancelled that shit during the trial.

Netflix needs competition...but it is not out there yet....

These old ass companies...they WILL NOT make a dent....unless they invest in someone else's idea/platform. Streaming their own content will not be enough.
 
:lol:

There is going to be no threat to Netflix...not in the next 5-10 years.

Netflix has this streaming shit ON-LOCK.

The only company that could dethrone them would be a new and unheard of innovator.

These dinosaur companies ranging from Disney to CBS to Warner are not going to push the envelope to innovate. They are only going to stream the content that they own...probably at 720P.

Im not going to front. After Netflix raised their prices, I said that I was going to leave. I found a service called CRAVE here in Canada that is basically a re-branded HBO.

That shit was utter and complete garbage.....720P...buggy interface....limited selection...

I cancelled that shit during the trial.

Netflix needs competition...but it is not out there yet....

These old ass companies...they WILL NOT make a dent....unless they invest in someone else's idea/platform. Streaming their own content will not be enough.

Don't believe that brother in this day and age shit changes quickly.

I'll bet you people were saying the same thing about Blockbuster when Netflix was new on the scene.

We see how that ended.
 
Don't believe that brother in this day and age shit changes quickly.

I'll bet you people were saying the same thing about Blockbuster when Netflix was new on the scene.

We see how that ended.

That's the thing though....

Netflix was new.

The dethroner of Netflix will come out of the shadows.

These old ass productions companies...AKA...one trick ponies....are not going to do it.
 
I would not be surprised if the DC streaming service merges with the new Time Warner service at some point.

It could be a two pronged approach.

One service with strictly PG-13 and under programming which will be more family friendly and one without these restrictions which will appeal to adults.
 
It could be a two pronged approach.

One service with strictly PG-13 and under programming which will be more family friendly and one without these restrictions which will appeal to adults.
I would agree with you, but it makes no sense not to put the CW super hero shows on the DC streaming service.
More importantly, DC went out of its way to make Titans a very adult show. I'm guessing the spin offs will be similar in tone.

Besides both HBO and Netflix mix adult and kids programming on one service with no issues.
 
:lol:

There is going to be no threat to Netflix...not in the next 5-10 years.

Netflix has this streaming shit ON-LOCK.

The only company that could dethrone them would be a new and unheard of innovator.

These dinosaur companies ranging from Disney to CBS to Warner are not going to push the envelope to innovate. They are only going to stream the content that they own...probably at 720P.

Im not going to front. After Netflix raised their prices, I said that I was going to leave. I found a service called CRAVE here in Canada that is basically a re-branded HBO.

That shit was utter and complete garbage.....720P...buggy interface....limited selection...

I cancelled that shit during the trial.

Netflix needs competition...but it is not out there yet....

These old ass companies...they WILL NOT make a dent....unless they invest in someone else's idea/platform. Streaming their own content will not be enough.
You think NEtflix can fight Disney? ESPN, Marvel, Star Wars, ABC, NBC , etc. Once Disney start their service it might not start off strong but eventually :itsawrap:
 
Netflix will either become the next HBO or Blockbuster...we will see.
listening to some of those investment shows they say it might be a good idea for apple to buy NEtflix instead of starting their own streaming service from scratch. Netflix will need the help from one of the big boys.
 
listening to some of those investment shows they say it might be a good idea for apple to buy NEtflix instead of starting their own streaming service from scratch.
Not a bad idea, but Apple is not into the whole open world approach (sorry don't know official business term) Netflix blew up because they made it available for EVERY technology available.

Apple by nature tends to frown on that approach. Would Apple be okay not limiting the service to just MAC OS IOS, Apple TV, and Itunes?
 
Not a bad idea, but Apple is not into the whole open world approach (sorry don't know official business term) Netflix blew up because they made it available for EVERY technology available.

Apple by nature tends to frown on that approach. Would Apple be okay not limiting the service to just MAC OS IOS, Apple TV, and Itunes?

You're right they'd fuck it up by attempting to limit it to their products in some way.
 
A Party Room and a Prison Cell

Inside the Friends writers’ room.
By Saul Austerlitz
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Here’s proof that they were really friends. Photo: Copyright © Bruza Brother Productions, LLC


Every writer knew the sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. David Crane would enter the room, toting a script full of notes scribbled in the margins. He would sit down in his chair and begin drumming his fingers on the table before announcing, “All right, we’ve got a lot of really good stuff here.” The assembled writers would silently groan, knowing that this was Crane-ian code for a full script rewrite. Everything was out, and it was time to start again.

“Good enough” was not a concept Crane, or Marta Kauffman, understood or accepted. One day during the first season, writer Jeff Astrof approached Crane with a proposal. “Look,” he told Crane, “right now we work one hundred percent of the allotted time and we have a show that’s one hundred. I believe that if we worked fifty percent of the time we’d have a show that’s seventy-five, so maybe we work seventy-five percent of the time and have a show that’s like a ninety.” Crane instantly rejected the proposal: “Absolutely not. The show has to be one hundred.” There might have been a faster way to get the work done. But this was Marta Kauffman and David Crane’s show, and their room.

After hiring their staff for the first season, Crane and Kauffman gathered the writers to deliver a pep talk, and a challenge. “Comedy is king,” Crane told the assembled writers. “This is a show where we want everything to be as funny as it can be.” For writers in their mid-twenties, many of whom were on their first or second jobs in the industry, this was a thrilling proclamation. Writers like the team of Astrof and Mike Sikowitz had always felt deeply competitive about crafting the best possible joke and getting it into the script — Astrof’s concerns about the punishing schedule notwithstanding — and Crane was seemingly opening the doors wide to all competitors.

Generation Friends, by Saul Austerlitz, to be published on September 17 by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2019 by Saul Austerlitz.
 
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