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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by lotsofpulp on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:02AM (#27290599)
How does that affect me as a customer?
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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by acwan93 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:13AM (#27290725)
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+

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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by lotsofpulp on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:21AM (#27290813)
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.

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