WB streaming coming soon (bye bye Netfilx)

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None of the studio standalones will survive past 5 years. They're asking for company brand loyalty after conditioning the audience for decades, to ignore it.

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“You can expect the crown jewels of Warner” — referring to hit shows like Friends and The Big Bang Theory — “will ultimately end up on the new service,” WarnerMedia chief creative officer Kevin Reilly told reporters at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday. (In fact, both those shows were specifically included in the service’s promotional materials.) And he’s not planning on sharing them with Netflix or any other competitors, either: “Sharing destination assets is not a good model. My belief is they should be exclusive to the service.”

Along with those hit sitcoms, the WarnerMedia streaming service — which still doesn’t have a name or a price point, but is set to launch in beta form by the end of the year — has its eye on CW shows like The Flash, Arrow and Riverdale that currently make Netflix their streaming home. The CW’s output deal with Netflix expires this spring, Reilly points out, and “we’re very interested in putting that on our platform.”

The unnamed service will also offer access to HBO programming and the Warner Bros. library of theatrical films. Original programming is planned as well, but won’t start rolling out until next year. (1)

Another site stated that the WB Streaming service is thinking about folding in there DC Universe into the WB Streaming site. Makes since to me. One of the main reason I haven't bought my ticket to the DC Universe is I have all there movies and it is not worth the monthly charge to watch one new episode a week. I was going to wait till there was enough new footage to binge watch them but if the WB Streaming does fold them in I can get behind that. The have so many movies & tv series to rewatch that I have not bought yet.