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Can I just say a few words for Netflix and Amazon?
- Thread starter SuperL
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Might be kind of out of necessity. It's easier/cheaper to make a new show than to buy the rights to existing properties.
But then they do have things like the Marvel shows or LotR so I dunno.
I actually think that HBO Max is doing a really good job... Like Doom Patrol getting another season is pretty unreal to me.
Well.. Jeah if you don't have the IP as Disney or the deep deep pocket spending of Apple you kinda need to make original content
Agreed. EPIX is doing quality new material, Apple has started to gain momentum with quality stuff like Ted Lasso. I mean how much of an investigation did you really do?
They're playing with the cards they're dealt - Amazon with the battlechest to try anything at least once (and buy out lucrative IP for streaming like Lord of the Rings when necessary), and Netflix with its realization back in the House of Cards days that it needed to make original content or die before all the big players finally made their own service and took everything of value off of their service.
HBO still puts out some good original stuff and Apple TV+ has some interesting shows they just need more content to really prove their worth.
I like it too. Once they upgrade the resolution for more shows and expand internationally, more will like it too.
What else could they do for their own content?
Disney gets to dig into its stock of super lucrative IPs, for example, I don't think it would make as much sense for them to do that.
Plus... I'm not enthusiastic about that praise considering the quality of a lot of this original content.
You're kidding yourself if you think Netflix wouldn't be awash in this stuff if they had the IP rights.
I assume this is prompted by the Paramount+ announcement today, which was primarily an investors' meeting. Of course it makes sense for them to highlight the strength of their existing IP when pitching their portfolio TO INVESTORS. It would have been inappropriate to stress new properties with long introductory trailers about them during an investors' meeting. Any such programs would likely have been lost in the shuffle, unless they were backed by major stars.
This certainly doesn't mean that they have zero original shows forthcoming (indeed, they showed some generally exciting ones, like the new Nathan Fielder / Safdie Bros show) ... just that they focused on what they perceive to be strengths in this context.
This certainly doesn't mean that they have zero original shows forthcoming (indeed, they showed some generally exciting ones, like the new Nathan Fielder / Safdie Bros show) ... just that they focused on what they perceive to be strengths in this context.
Only 1 service has Dark, Stranger things, Castlevania and many awesome foreign shows on it so.... you're right OP.
