Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
by philistine on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:01AM
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You would be shocked at the amount of shows that were sold to NBC but produced by ABC Studios or whatever. It still happens today but the trend is going back to the closed loops.
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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
by lotsofpulp on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:02AM
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How does that affect me as a customer?
It means shows that don’t get picked up by the studio making the show can get picked up by other studios to air it.
Two immediate examples I can think of:
“House MD” was produced by NBC/Universal but aired on FOX
“For All Mankind” was produced by Sony but currently airing on Apple TV+
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
by lotsofpulp on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:21AM
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How are the incentives any different now? Why would Amazon not want to be paid for a show it does not want but Apple or Netflix does? Swap around any of the company names.
If a different studio was selling to Apple/Amazon/etc then presumably they would have language that lets them sell to someone else if they did not end up distributing it.