<story><title>New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming</title><url>http://netflixstreaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-arrested-development-netflix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angli</author><text>I loved Arrested Development, and I&apos;m glad that it&apos;s coming back, but I&apos;m not sure this is a good move for Netflix.  If this idea picks up steam, Netflix becomes a competitor to the networks and their relationships get worse. Heaven knows they&apos;re tense enough already. It seems likely that others may pull their content, as Starz recently did, lessening Netflix&apos;s appeal. So yes, in the short run they&apos;ll gain subscribers, but I don&apos;t think this outweighs the major risks this poses in the long run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>The flawed premise here is that the networks will continue to matter.&lt;p&gt;They won&apos;t. Their days are numbered.&lt;p&gt;Building the future is hard and it&apos;s messy. Netflix has been taking it on the chin this year as they&apos;ve passed through a really rough patch.&lt;p&gt;In the end, though, I&apos;d put money on Netflix existing in 2020 before I would any given broadcast network. TV is dead.&lt;p&gt;Netflix is trying to redefine distribution. They&apos;re not going to win by placating the dinosaurs of distribution&apos;s past. If the Arrested Development deal works out, production companies may see that they have new options for financing their projects and might get better opportunities to reach an audience than they&apos;d ever get on TV.&lt;p&gt;So it&apos;s simple: take the issue by the balls and control your destiny or bow and scrape before moronic suits who don&apos;t understand technology, hoping and praying that they won&apos;t change their minds each time a licensing deal expires.</text></comment>
<story><title>New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming</title><url>http://netflixstreaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-arrested-development-netflix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angli</author><text>I loved Arrested Development, and I&apos;m glad that it&apos;s coming back, but I&apos;m not sure this is a good move for Netflix.  If this idea picks up steam, Netflix becomes a competitor to the networks and their relationships get worse. Heaven knows they&apos;re tense enough already. It seems likely that others may pull their content, as Starz recently did, lessening Netflix&apos;s appeal. So yes, in the short run they&apos;ll gain subscribers, but I don&apos;t think this outweighs the major risks this poses in the long run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mk</author><text>Or the producers of television see this as a way to not deal with the networks and still get their show distributed to people, and the networks find themselves without good television to put on the air.</text></comment>