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After flood of content, are streaming services running low on new shows?
- With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing previously unseen levels of
streaming entertainment consumption, along with a corresponding
slowdown/shutdown of content production while new entrants continued to
launch their services, the question arose in some quarters whether the
fat
pipe of new content might finally run a bit thinner.
- We may be there, NextTV suggests. "It's fair to say the content
drought is here," says Kasey Moore, editor of online guide What's on
Netflix.
- He says the number of original series episodes and movies debuting on
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is down 12% year-to-date vs. 2020. New programming
additions (of any type) are down by more than half: 40 this month, vs. 83
in April 2020.
- And Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw notes that aside from HBO Max's (NYSE:T)
release of *Generation* in March, its other March offerings were a recut
film (Zack Snyder's Justice League), two documentaries and *Godzilla vs.
Kong,* which was finished before the pandemic began. That's down
significantly from HBO's production over the same period in 2020.
- Meanwhile, Hulu (NYSE:DIS) had no originals for March, and Amazon
Prime Video's (NASDAQ:AMZN)biggest release was another closed-cinema
unload: *Coming 2 America.*
- The pipeline for documentaries and animated titles looks robust,
Bloomberg notes, but English-language live-action shows are very light -
and streaming services are turning to foreign sources to find some new
content for a novelty-hungry customer base.
|Today, 11:02 AM|45 Comments
After flood of content, are streaming services running low on new shows?
- With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing previously unseen levels of
streaming entertainment consumption, along with a corresponding
slowdown/shutdown of content production while new entrants continued to
launch their services, the question arose in some quarters whether the
fat
pipe of new content might finally run a bit thinner.
- We may be there, NextTV suggests. "It's fair to say the content
drought is here," says Kasey Moore, editor of online guide What's on
Netflix.
- He says the number of original series episodes and movies debuting on
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is down 12% year-to-date vs. 2020. New programming
additions (of any type) are down by more than half: 40 this month, vs. 83
in April 2020.
- And Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw notes that aside from HBO Max's (NYSE:T)
release of *Generation* in March, its other March offerings were a recut
film (Zack Snyder's Justice League), two documentaries and *Godzilla vs.
Kong,* which was finished before the pandemic began. That's down
significantly from HBO's production over the same period in 2020.
- Meanwhile, Hulu (NYSE:DIS) had no originals for March, and Amazon
Prime Video's (NASDAQ:AMZN)biggest release was another closed-cinema
unload: *Coming 2 America.*
- The pipeline for documentaries and animated titles looks robust,
Bloomberg notes, but English-language live-action shows are very light -
and streaming services are turning to foreign sources to find some new
content for a novelty-hungry customer base.
|Today, 11:02 AM|45 Comments
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