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Netflix desires extra reveals like The Night Agent and to assist support that effort, they’ll be licensing seasons 1-5 of the hit collection S.W.A.T. which shares an government producer and showrunner with Netflix’s new megahit.
Developed by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas and Shawn Ryan, the police procedural collection is a reboot of the 1975 collection of the identical title. It’s been airing on CBS since 2017 and streamed away from Netflix within the United States since its preliminary air date.
The present is at the moment in its sixth season on CBS, with a seventh but to be formally confirmed for the 23/24 broadcast season.
However, as we’ve seen Netflix do quite a few instances, they’ll be strategically licensing all six seasons of the present by the top of 2023. The information comes off the again of The Night Agent, created by Shawn Ryan, changing into one in every of Netflix’s greatest reveals of all time.
The Night Agent – Picture: Netflix
The license to Netflix was confirmed by Shawn Ryan on Twitter, though it addition has but to be formally confirmed by Netflix themselves in both the app or in any other case.
In a Tweet on April seventh, the author behind SWAT acknowledged, “LIBRARY episodes of @swatcbs will begin streaming on @Netflix (Seasons 1-5 will stream in May, Season 6 will be added in the fall.”
The present is being licensed to Netflix from Sony Pictures Television. It has remained a dependable companion for licensing reveals to Netflix with their catalog titles at the moment obtainable on the service, together with Seinfeld, The Blacklist, Community, and Breaking Bad.
S.W.A.T. will stay on Paramount+ and Hulu
While being added to Netflix, S.W.A.T. is anticipated to stay on its different two US streaming properties.
Sources point out that the present will likely be faraway from Hulu in September 2024 on the earliest, with solely seasons 1-3 at the moment streaming on the time of publishing.
On Paramount+, solely the sixth season is at the moment streaming, serving solely as a catch-up for the newest season.
So whereas we anticipate different providers to proceed carrying S.W.A.T., Netflix would be the greatest streaming location to observe all prior seasons by the shut of 2023.
S.W.A.T. is already streaming on Netflix in a number of international locations
Of course, many areas of Netflix are already streaming SWAT as of the time of publishing. Seven areas, together with Canada and the United Kingdom, are streaming no less than seasons 1 to 4 with a couple of additionally carrying season 5.
As we predicted lately, season 6 will head to Netflix Canada in September 2023. In the UK, we anticipate seasons 5 and 6 to land in September 2023 and 2024, respectively.
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