How important is 'comfort' or 'background noise' to your TV streaming appetite?

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I've talked about this with a few people who were asking why is The Simpsons going to be on Disney+ at launch or why did Warner Bros. pay so much to get Friends back for the HBO Max launch or putting Fresh Prince up on day one.

I think it's very important for streaming services to have these types of programs. I don't know if Friends or The Office was a selling point for Netflix but the numbers showed they were the two most watched programs on the service.

I don't care about Friends but shyt like The Simpsons or Fresh Prince or when Seinfeld comes available and the TGIF shows are stuff where if u don't know what to watch, they are there for an episode or two...

Will these programs be important to you or is the original content most important or is it a combination of the two?

Hearing the whole Simpsons catalog will be available day one on Disney+ or the whole Fresh Prince day one on HBO Max is a good thing for my TV viewing....

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

For the most part I'm there for new original content more than old episodes of old shows but I feel like I'm probably in the minority there given how many views friends and other old shows get on netflix. The main things that I've found myself going back and rewatching are older top tier hbo shows. But I definitely appreciate the ability to access those things if for any reason I do want to view them.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

For the most part I'm there for new original content more than old episodes of old shows but I feel like I'm probably in the minority there given how many views friends and other old shows get on netflix. The main things that I've found myself going back and rewatching are older top tier hbo shows. But I definitely appreciate the ability to access those things if for any reason I do want to view them.

I feel u. I got HBO Now so I'm always watchin old episodes of The Wire or on Netflix I'll watch Breaking Bad so it's more important to my viewing than I would have thought

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

I feel u. I got HBO Now so I'm always watchin old episodes of The Wire or on Netflix I'll watch Breaking Bad so it's more important to my viewing than I would have thought

I just feel like there are so many new DOPE af TV shows coming out regularly that my schedule is already full so the times where I watch older episodes are times when there is a lull in new TV show releases, which is pretty rare nowadays.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I just feel like there are so many new DOPE af TV shows coming out regularly that my schedule is already full so the times where I watch older episodes are times when there is a lull in new TV show releases, which is pretty rare nowadays.

there are, my back catalog is but I like to throw on older stuff when i'm chillin on a tablet or whatever something i don't need to pay too much attention to

 

[Jello Biafra]

I never watched reruns of sitcoms on Netflix. For some reason that just never seemed like Netflix's purpose to me.
Now I'll watch a ton of shows I have already watched a million times on Hulu. I go through about 4 episodes of American Dad, Bob's Burgers and King of the Hill daily on that service.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

I'm probably the exception and not the norm, because I watch so many shows and generally I never rewatch something I've already seen. Even shows I really like, mainly because it would be taking away from something new to watch. Having a back catalog is a nice addition, but it would never be the thing that makes me subscribe to a service or keep it long-term if they were not producing original content I want to see.

 

[karim]

Old shows would never be the reason I would sign on to a service for, but especially on netflix, they what I watch the most. Although part of the reason is netflix algorithm, which keeps suggesting too much crap I'm not interested in and so I watch what I already know.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

The reason why shows like friends and the office do well is because a majority of streamers are from that age bracket when those shows were “hits”. A lot of those same streamers watched those series initially, so it’s only feasible that they’d indulge in it again with streaming ability

 

[steadyrighteous]

This is a good point, but on a podcast I was listening to they had a journalist on who covers the business of TV, in particular the streaming stuff, and he made a point...

Companies like NBC, Warner are banking on getting their major stuff back like Friends, Parks, Office etc., but people are gonna have a real decision to make - if you already have Netflix + probably Disney, is it worth an extra fifteen bucks a month to get access to the two shows you’ve already seen several times? Or are you just gonna go on Disney and Netflix and make something else your background noise show?

People think the original shows don’t matter, but they do. They’re the cake, legacy shows are the icing, not the other way round

 

[Yade]

I honestly don’t care

I have a extremely short attention span , only tv show I ever got into was Californiacation

Honestly that’s it

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

This is a good point, but on a podcast I was listening to they had a journalist on who covers the business of TV, in particular the streaming stuff, and he made a point...

Companies like NBC, Warner are banking on getting their major stuff back like Friends, Parks, Office etc., but people are gonna have a real decision to make - if you already have Netflix + probably Disney, is it worth an extra fifteen bucks a month to get access to the two shows you’ve already seen several times? Or are you just gonna go on Disney and Netflix and make something else your background noise show?

People think the original shows don’t matter, but they do. They’re the cake, legacy shows are the icing, not the other way round

Nahhh I think original content is most important too but I think back catalog is also important. I'm just wondering how important. HBO Max is going to double the output of original content that HBO used to so Warner is definitely going all in with this. Seems like NBC is going all in too.

But I don't think there's gonna be enough room for 6-7 services to eat. Right now if I had to pick two it'd be Disney and HBO. I'd probably cancel Netflix. But at the start I will try them all out

 

[letti cook]

the majority of what i stream is throwback sitcoms because i just like to have something on in the background while i do other shyt

i rarely get into new shows and when i do i run through them pretty quickly

i need somebody to get Wayans Bros, Martin, Fresh Prince, Steve Harvey and Jaime Fox on one service

when Hulu added all the TGIF joints and Living Single it was like Christmas

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

the majority of what i stream is throwback sitcoms because i just like to have something on in the background while i do other shyt

i rarely get into new shows and when i do i run through them pretty quickly

i need somebody to get Wayans Bros, Martin, Fresh Prince, Steve Harvey and Jaime Fox on one service

when Hulu added all the TGIF joints and Living Single it was like Christmas

That would be HBO Max. Most of those are WB shows so they will fall under the HBO Max umbrella.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

To me these shows are side dishes. The original content is the entree. Nobody goes to a restaurant for the side dishes but they’re nice to have.