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Originally Posted by Hugh
Where?
That bland statement covers a huge area - it often costs millions to make programmes/series, and there needs to be a return on investment for the programme makers; no one has yet shown a business model that does not require a vast majority of streaming services libraries coming from the existing programme makers (as they have the studios and the back catalogues).
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Exactly. The economics of the streaming services only stack up if they can bulk up their libraries with relatively cheap content from other broadcasters/producers.
If, for example, the BBC pulled Doctor Who from Netflix, the costs of making a show which appealed to the same audience would be many, many times more than Netflix pays the BBC for streaming rights.
Making back that cash would be very hard, certainly more so than recouping what it pays the BBC.