Yasmin Adel
The audience was surprised a few days ago by the Netflix announcement that the famous comedies "Friends" will not be available for viewing through its screen from the spring of 2020, because of its move to the new exclusive broadcasting platform "HBO Max" (HBO Max) Media, "last Tuesday's intention to launch next spring, to include about ten thousand hours of content and a lot of original works for display.
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Two blows to the head
The announcement came in the wake of another loss to one of Netflix's most popular and popular sitcom series, which ranked number one, The Office, which Netflix announced two weeks ago to return to its original NBC platform, (NBC) during 2021.
Although the material details have not yet been officially announced, some sources have revealed that the new five-year contract, estimated at $ 500 million, was paid for only $ 100 million at the present time.
We're sad that NBC has decided to take The Office back for its own streaming platform - but members can binge watch the show to their hearts' content ad-free on Netflix until January 2021 - Netflix US (@netflix) June 25, 2019 |
As for the series "Friends" - according to the magazine "Hollywood Reporter" - Netflix lost after a war raged against Warner Media, the latter agreed to pay $ 85 million annually for five years (a total of 425 million for 236 episodes ) In order to attract the display through its new screen.
Which Netflix could not keep up with, especially after spending $ 80 million to keep the show on its screen during 2019.
The public declares war
Although Friend's is a series of the 1990s, its audience has mostly seen its episodes over and over again, but once Netflix officially announced the story via Twitter, the audience was only taking things personally, waging war and threatening to cancel Their monthly subscription and search for an alternative broadcast platform provides them with the same serial.
This is clearly demonstrated by the many tweets of their owners on the sites of communication, and the reactions and feelings behind the words varied between anger and abandonment and the threat of departure. As for the cynic, he used footage from the same "Friends" series to express the state of resentment that haunted the loyal work lovers.
I may cancel my Netflix account. The only reason I have it is to watch Friends and the Office ... - Christian Gutierrez (@Guti_Speaks) July 9, 2019 |
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The One Where We Have To Say Goodbye. |
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Good management or not care?
Although the "Office, Friends" series has stopped producing new seasons for years, according to Nielsen's 2017-2018 study, the two most viewed jobs on Netflix, with 45.8 billion minutes spent by the public watching the Office and 31.8 A billion minutes for Friends, which means that by 2021 and the disappearance of the two workers from the platform Netflix will lose two of the largest serials that have ever been shown on its screen.
Netflix plans to spend $ 15 billion on its content this year, $ 12 billion more than the amount it spent in 2018, Netflix said.
The increasing number of platforms will make every platform more spending on the production of the original business rather than buying other business rights in anticipation of companies demanding a return to business, especially with the fierceness of the competition and the huge spending budget it requires.
However, this does not negate the fact that the success of all the platforms also depends on the re-presentation of non-original series. According to statistics, the non-original performances accounted for more than 70% of the time spent by the public against the Netflix platform in the United States alone in the past nine months only, The balance between original and non-original works or does it need a budget closer to the impossible?