'The Office' is About to Leave Netflix
by EG
Netflix is raising its subscription prices at the same time that it's set to lose some of its most popular content. The Office is going to move to Peacock at the end of the year, and many more popular TV series and movies will be ditching Netflix, as well. Can the streamer justify its higher prices and retain subscribers despite the losses? Read on for details.
As 2020 draws to a close, Netflix subscribers will also have to bid farewell to The Office, as the beloved NBC sitcom is set to make its move to NBCUniversal's own streaming service, Peacock.
Peacock will be the exclusive streaming home of the Universal TV comedy starring Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson and others. The Office, as recently as last year, was the No. 1 show across all subscription video on demand services, according to NBCUniversal.
The Office move is just the latest effort by media conglomerates to take back library content as they launch their own streaming services. And Netflix is set to lose a number of well-known acquired TV series throughout the month, including The West Wing, Gossip Girl, Dexter, Nurse Jackie and Hart of Dixie.
In addition to these series, Netflix is also bidding farewell to movies like the Indiana Jones series, the Back to the Future trilogy, The Notebook, The Town, Baby Mama, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Her, Fargo, Frida, The Lobster, The Interview, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Wreck-It Ralph 2, the 1990 version of The Witches and two recent versions of The Grinch, the 2018 animated film featuring the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch and the 2000 live-action film starring Jim Carrey.
But even though this content is on its way out, Netflix has announced a large slate of new additions that will debut throughout the month.
Get the rest of the list at The Hollywood Reporter.
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