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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by wlesieutre on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:32AM (#18978371)
From what I understand, "Netflix Original" means two different things:

1) Things that are actually Netflix's shows, like House of Cards

2) Things that Netflix bought exclusive distribution rights for in the US and markets as "Original" just like House of Cards, but actually had nothing to do with.

So it's less that Netflix sold the rights to local TVs and more that they never had those rights to begin with.

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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by mcv on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:50AM (#18978542)
In Netherland, The Expanse used to be a Netflix Original, while in the US it was on SyFy. But this "Netflix Original" appeared on Netflix half a year after it had aired on SyFy. And of course now that Amazon bought all rights to The Expanse from SyFy, this "Netflix Original" vanished from Dutch Netflix.

"Netflix Original" clearly doesn't mean much. I think it'd be wiser for Netflix to reserve it for shows they actually own, so they can never disappear from Netflix.

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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by scott_s on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:10AM (#18978731)
I was extremely surprised to learn one of what I thought was Netflix's first original shows is not in fact owned by them: Orange is the New Black. According to this piece on Netflix's general problem (https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18166911/netflix-friend...), it is actually owned by Lionsgate, and I assume Netflix has an exclusive distribution deal.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by dagw on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:39AM (#18978425)
In some countries (I think Australia was one of them) Netflix did sell the distribution rights to House of Cards before they entered the market and then couldn't show House of Cards on Netflix once they did enter the market.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:33AM (#18978377)
And that means that Netflix exclusives can go off the air due to poor TV viewership. Dirk Gently, you were gone too soon.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by mcv on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:01AM (#18979342)
Is Dirk Gently gone from Netflix?! It's one of the best things there.

I thought I still saw it listed recently. Maybe it's only gone from your region and not mine, in which case I recommend a VPN.

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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:03AM (#18979372)
It's still there, but because the BBC didn't get a lot of traction with it in the UK they canceled further seasons.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by mcv on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:58AM (#18988677)
I frankly was surprised to even see a season 2. Season 1 was brilliant, but it didn't seem possible to do a follow up that wouldn't be lame. I was wrong, but I'm still happy we got these two seasons. I imagine it's pretty hard to keep up this level of weirdness.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by cannonedhamster on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:59AM (#18999843)
It's on Hulu.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by amyjess on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:55AM (#18978594)
Also

3) Joint productions like Lilyhammer where Netflix partnered with a foreign broadcaster to produce.

So something like Lilyhammer that was a joint Netflix/NRK production means it's a Netflix Original in the US and aired on NRK1 in Norway, but it's actually produced by both companies.

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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by pintxo on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:08AM (#18979432)
In Germany "House of Cards" was shown first on Sky and only months later available on Netflix ...
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