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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by nhebb on Thursday September 01, 2011 @10:14PM (#2952643)
> AMC is ending Breaking Bad next season because of Madmen sucking up the budget

Thankfully, that's not going to happen. AMC tried cutting BrBa back to only 6 episodes next season. But Sony owns the rights to the show, so they shopped it around. AMC caved. For all the press Mad Men gets, Breaking Bad has ~2x the viewers per episode, and Walking Dead (which had it's budget cut due to Mad Men's cost) gets about ~2.5x the viewers.

[Edit: Removed my snarky comment about AMC's management.]

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by d2vid on Thursday September 01, 2011 @10:48PM (#2952701)
To AMC's credit, the CPM AMC receives for Mad Men is much higher: $34 instead of $12-$25. It could be because people pay attention to the commercials, since the show is about advertising. A cynic would say it's a prestige thing for media buyers to get their ads run on Mad Men.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.printFrie...

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by joezydeco on Thursday September 01, 2011 @11:28PM (#2952784)
You mean classy ad campaigns like this one?

http://main.stylelist.com/2010/08/05/dove-mad-men-commercial...

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by xcode on Friday September 02, 2011 @12:45AM (#2952947)
While I agree with the original poster, i.e., those who are already using netflix are unlikely to go back, netflix is supposed to be a growth business (P/E of > 60), ergo, if this leads to less growth, that will be terrible terrible terrible for the company.
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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by sliverstorm on Thursday September 01, 2011 @11:07PM (#2952741)
Maybe AMC's management fancy themselves as modern-day Mad Men and are fond of the show
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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by ErrantX on Friday September 02, 2011 @06:59AM (#2953649)
They aired Walking Dead season 1 in the UK earlier this year, awesome stuff. It was the first time I turned my TV on for about 3 months & worth every minute :)

Very glad it is coming back for a second season.

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by georgehaake on Friday September 02, 2011 @08:33AM (#2953844)
Love Breaking Bad. I appreciate it ending after next season as too many shows die a prolonged declining death.
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