There was a collective freak-out yesterday from fans of Friends and the many who recently discovered the popular 90’s/00’s sitcom, when many started to see notification on Netflix that the show would leave the streaming service on January 1st. Those fears were dealt very quickly by Netflix who said the Jennifer Aniston-lead comedy will be sticking around through 2019. According to several industry reports including Consequence of Sound, the streaming company dropped $100 million to get the show to stick around. This is $70 million dollar increase for the show’s first deal on Netflix.
Just like Ross and Rachel, it is still up in the air how long ‘Friends’ will stay together.
There is speculation that ‘Friends’ along several other TV and Movie properties will be utilized by AT&T as they own Warner Media, which will soon launch it’s own tiered-streaming subscription service. On top of that video shakeup, Disney is rolling out it’s long-planned ‘Disney+’ which will featured a new Star Wars dramatic series with on-demand access to their massive catalog which includes a lot of Marvel related content.
Stephen Colbert riffed on the Cafe Perk crowd being rediscovered and several other things that people are overreacting about.
