'NCIS,' 'Friends' & More Shows Netflix Will Likely Lose to Streaming Rivals (PHOTOS)
The Office
NBCUniversal has already announced plans to strike this workplace comedy from Netflix next year in 2021 and to add it to the company’s forthcoming streaming service the year after.
Friends
Netflix previously announced it will continue to stream this NBC comedy through all of 2019. However, the series will be leaving the service for WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, which is set to launch in the spring of 2020.
Grey’s Anatomy
Grey’s has gotten a big boost from the “Netflix effect,” but the show will soon be pulled from Netflix and offered on Disney’s new streaming service, Deadline reports.
Parks and Recreation
The Verge reports that the Leslie Knope and the Pawnee crew of this beloved NBC comedy will “almost certainly end up exclusively on NBCUniversal’s streaming service.”
NCIS
Similarly, this CBS procedural is another CBS Television Distribution title, and it’s one of only a handful of current CBS shows that haven’t already been allocated to CBS All Access. That might change soon, so fans and would-be devotees better start bingeing now!
TV shows on Netflix come and go all the time as the streaming giant gains and loses rights to those shows. But with the streaming wars heating up and with media conglomerates debuting their own platforms, Netflix is bound to lose some of its heaviest hitters.
To wit, The Wall Street Journal recently declared that three companies that will soon launch new streaming services "make up nearly 40 percent of the viewing minutes on Netflix."
Here are some of the Netflix titles that might soon migrate to Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max (WarnerMedia), and NBC Universal's still-untitled streaming service.
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