thebruns t1_j0coms6 wrote on December 15, 2022 at 6:09 PM

Reply to comment by Beckland in Inside Warner Bros. Discovery’s Latest Cost-Cutting Spree at HBO Max by johnppd

Youre entirely missing the point. They are not just cancelling shows, but completely removing them. Westworld Season 4 only just aired in August.

>backlog of great scripted shows that have come out in 2017-2022,

How does one go through a backlog if the titles are removed?

Beckland t1_j0dtle0 wrote on December 15, 2022 at 10:34 PM

I get it. But it’s not like they are deleting ALL the content, so of course there are still lots of shows to watch.

More broadly, I guess maybe I just never believed that streaming services would hold content in their service forever…or even for very long.

It’s in the streamer’s best interest to create “windows” as they always have…from first-run to re-runs; to the Disney Vault; to sending shows to Netflix 90 days after DVD release.

This has always been a part of the industry and I see no reason to expect that they would have changed just because the delivery mechanism has changed again.