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'The Office' to Leave Netflix in 2020: NBC Says
- mindcrime 7y agoLaunching a new ad-supported streaming service in 2020? Brillia.. ehr, no. F%#@ng brain-dead, in my estimation. Nobody wants a new streaming service, and nobody wants ads. I believe this is the kind of move companies make out of spite, even though they are ultimately hurting everybody involved. NBC loses, because they'd probably have made more money by licensing the content to Netflix. Netflix loses, because their service becomes less desirable without popular content like The Office. Consumers lose because now they have to jump around between even more streaming service options to find what they want. My personal suspicion is that we're near, or at, "peak streaming service subscription". I can't imagine very many people want One More Service to deal with. The NBC one might hang around for a while if it's purely ad-supported, but I still think this is a lose-lose-lose scenario.