Netflix Is No Longer Chill
Uncanny Valley | WIRED
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Original Content vs Licensed Programming
HBO shows that were originally created, developed and produced by HBO don't have much of an incentive for them necessarily to distribute it somewhere else. So there's a lot of stuff that they end up either shelving or only running for a certain amount of time and then taking off because it's cheaper to not offer it on some balance sheet. I'm wondering whether or not this was inevitable, whether this was something that we should have been prepared for. And, you know, we should have be maybe more aware that this was coming, but it's still taking us by surprise and it's still upsetting to us.
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