Today Barron's offered this article Are Streaming Rights for 'The Big Bang Theory' Really Worth $600 Million? which begins:
The article reflects what I already feel about streaming without the new streaming services: So Much Streaming, So Little Time....
On average every week on (in alphabetical order) Acorn TV, Amazon Prime, CBS All Access, Hulu, Netflix, and PBS five new scripted series or scripted series seasons become available. In a ten day period beginning on Monday September 23, the day after the Emmy Awards, the big 4 broadcast networks begin their fall season and the next 20± days look like this for scripted series all of which will be streaming on Hulu or CBS All Access or something:
So, of course, I'm eagerly looking forward to reruns of Friends, right? Who is this valuable audience for reruns? I like what the article says: "Other clear winners include office workers still saying things like 'That's gold, Jerry!' and 'Hello, Newman!' to blank looks from millennial colleagues."
All I can think is that at some point this is going to cost me money in order to watch some show I want to watch because AT&T "outbid itself for The Big Bang Theory" and needs to recoup a billion bucks (yeah, it's complicated, see 'The Big Bang Theory' goes to AT&T's HBO Max streaming service for over a billion).
Oh well....
Sell everything, quickly, and use the proceeds to buy distribution rights for Gilligan's Island and ALF. The hottest trend in show business is to pay extravagant sums for temporary permission to stream old shows. The biggest shows are already spoken for, so it's only a matter of time before bidding heats up for the B-list stuff. You'll thank me after rampant ALF-flation sets in.
The article reflects what I already feel about streaming without the new streaming services: So Much Streaming, So Little Time....
On average every week on (in alphabetical order) Acorn TV, Amazon Prime, CBS All Access, Hulu, Netflix, and PBS five new scripted series or scripted series seasons become available. In a ten day period beginning on Monday September 23, the day after the Emmy Awards, the big 4 broadcast networks begin their fall season and the next 20± days look like this for scripted series all of which will be streaming on Hulu or CBS All Access or something:
- The Good Doctor (ABC, Season 3)
- The Neighborhood (CBS, Season 2)
- Bob ♥ Abishola (CBS, new comedy series)
- All Rise (CBS, new drama series)
- Bull (CBS, Season 4)
- Bluff City Law (NBC, new drama series)
- 9-1-1 (Fox, Season 3)
- Prodigal Son (Fox, new drama series)
- The Conners (ABC, Season 2)
- Bless This Mess (ABC, Season 2)
- Mixed-ish (ABC, new comedy series)
- Black-ish (ABC, Season 6)
- Emergence (ABC, new drama series)
- NCIS (CBS, Season 17)
- FBI (CBS, Season 2)
- NCIS: New Orleans (CBS, Season 6)
- This Is Us (NBC, Season 4)
- New Amsterdam (NBC, Season 2)
- The Resident (Fox, Season 3)
- Empire (Fox, Season 6; final season)
- The Goldbergs (ABC, Season 7)
- Schooled (ABC, Season 2)
- Modern Family (ABC, Season 11; final season)
- Single Parents (ABC, Season 2)
- Stumptown (ABC, new drama series)
- Chicago Med (NBC, Season 5)Chicago Fire (NBC, Season 8)
- Chicago P.D. (NBC, Season 7)
- Grey's Anatomy (ABC, Season 16)
- A Million Little Things (ABC, Season 2)
- How to Get Away with Murder (ABC, Season 6)
- Young Sheldon (CBS, Season 3)
- The Unicorn (CBS, new comedy series)
- Mom (CBS, Season 7)
- Carol's Second Act (CBS, new comedy series)
- Evil (CBS, new drama series)
- Superstore (NBC, Season 5)
- Perfect Harmony (NBC, new comedy series)
- The Good Place (NBC, Season 4; final season)
- Sunnyside (NBC, new comedy series)
- Law & Order SVU (NBC, Season 21)
- American Housewife (ABC, Season 4)
- Fresh Off the Boat (ABC, Season 6)
- Hawaii Five-O (CBS, Season 10)
- Magnum P.I. (CBS, Season 2)
- Blue Bloods (CBS, Season 10)
- The Rookie (ABC, Season 2)
- NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS, Season 11)
- The Simpsons (Fox, Season 31)
- Bless the Harts (Fox, new animated comedy series)
- Bob's Burgers (Fox, Season 10)
- Family Guy (Fox, Season 18)
- Poldark (PBS, Season 5; final season)
- The Durrells in Corfu (PBS, Season 4; final season)
- SEAL Team (CBS, Season 3)
- S.W.A.T. (CBS, Season 3)
- Almost Family (Fox, new drama series; fka Sisters)
- The Blacklist (NBC, Season 7)
- God Friended Me (CBS, Season 2)
- Madam Secretary (CBS, Season 6; final season)
So, of course, I'm eagerly looking forward to reruns of Friends, right? Who is this valuable audience for reruns? I like what the article says: "Other clear winners include office workers still saying things like 'That's gold, Jerry!' and 'Hello, Newman!' to blank looks from millennial colleagues."
All I can think is that at some point this is going to cost me money in order to watch some show I want to watch because AT&T "outbid itself for The Big Bang Theory" and needs to recoup a billion bucks (yeah, it's complicated, see 'The Big Bang Theory' goes to AT&T's HBO Max streaming service for over a billion).
Oh well....