After more than a year of cancellations and layoffs at HBO, it appears Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is sticking to the quick fix as much as ever.
Warner Bros. Discovery may license HBO original series to Netflix, report says. expiration. Portal’s sources say it’s a financial move that HBO’s old guard didn’t agree with, but that it’s needed to bolster financial results. However, they also say it’s possible the deal won’t go through.
The program said to be the subject of the deal is Issa Rae’s “Insecure,” which lived on HBO for five seasons until it wrapped in December 2021. Other shows would follow the same path. The deal would not be exclusive; Warner would still be able to show the series on their own platform, Max (HBO Max in Brazil).
Programs in more than one stream
This wouldn’t be the first TV series or movie to air on two different streaming networks. Thanks to some contractual “nonsense,” you can currently watch “Avatar: The Path of Water” on Disney Plus and Max.
But this would be Warner’s first major streaming deal since it sold bundles of canceled shows to free-to-air and ad-supported television networks (FAST), including Roku and Tubi earlier this year. These shows included the recently canceled ‘Westworld’ and the previously unreleased episodes of the Joss Whedon series ‘The Nevers’.
The current licensing deal follows Warner’s recent rebranding and relaunch of HBO Max as, simply, Max (except in Brazil, for now), which saw a new price tier for 4K video and some signs that the launch was rushed. embarrassing credit issue that Warner was forced to apologize for lumping writers, directors, and everyone else under one “creator” heading, angering the awesome writers at the Writers Guild of America.
There are plenty of reasons not to like Zaslav’s “open to business” approach, but being able to watch high-quality programming like what HBO is known for across multiple platforms is rare as original content piles up in the streaming trenches. . . And it’s a better story than a movie that people put the time and effort into getting canceled for tax reasons.
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