“Friends” Is Leaving Netflix
By Hope Bidegainberry on July 11, 2019
If you’re making your way through all 10 seasons of “Friends” on Netflix, you might want to hurry up . . . because it’ll be gone next year.
Yesterday, WarnerMedia announced its new streaming platform, HBO Max, which will launch next spring. And it’ll feature the, quote, “exclusive streaming rights to all 236 episodes of ‘Friends’.”
HBO Max will also have “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Pretty Little Liars”, plus new original shows like an animated“Gremlins” reboot and a thriller called “The Flight Attendant” starring Kaley Cuoco.
Netflix confirmed it on Twitter . . . quote, “The One Where We Have To Say Goodbye. We’re sorry to see ‘Friends’ go to Warner’s streaming service at the beginning of 2020 (in The US). Thanks for the memories, gang.”
“Friends” has been on Netflix since 2015. Last year, they supposedly coughed up $100 MILLION to keep it through 2019. Which is a lot even for Netflix. Before that, they were paying $30 million a year for it.