Pictured: Suits, The Mindy Project, New Amsterdam
2023 has been a turbulent 12 months for all of Hollywood and Netflix isn’t any totally different. One pattern that’s again in full drive is licensing with some big reveals from yesteryear and extra lately becoming a member of Netflix that don’t sport the Netflix Original emblem.
For years, Netflix was residence to a number of the greatest reveals on the earth from different suppliers. We’re speaking in regards to the majority of output from ABC, NBC, AMC, Showtime, and others. Of course, that each one modified as we progressed by the 2010s as corporations started deciding that gifting away their large reveals wasn’t price the price of admission. Or, as Bob Iger famously put it: “We’re basically selling nuclear weapons technology to a Third World country.”
Of course, these mantras of retaining every part for your self have begun to reverse over the previous 12 months or so. Whether that’s from pressures to achieve profitability on their very own streaming companies which can be struggling for development or troublesome steadiness sheets, there’s an incentive for corporations to start the method of licensing once more. It’s not fairly on the stage it was years in the past, nevertheless it doesn’t have to be.
From Netflix’s viewpoint, it wants the eyeballs, and all through a lot of this 12 months, there’s been a significant strike, and are available subsequent 12 months, it’ll start working out of its personal US-produced sequence.
Will this pattern proceed post-strike? We’ll need to see.
This record is particularly for these within the United States, as Netflix licenses TV reveals per area. With that mentioned, worldwide licensing has stepped up, too. Some areas noticed the return of Hannibal, extra areas have licensed Young Sheldon, and a few are even getting Preacher within the coming weeks.
Enough with the context – listed below are our picks of the best-licensed sequence added (or re-added) to Netflix over the previous 9 months.
The Mindy Project
Owner of the Show: Universal Television
Added to Netflix: January 1st, 2023
Seasons/Episodes: 6 seasons / 117 episodes
The Mindy Project
Running between 2012 and 2017, this Mindy Kaling comedy sequence kicked off the 12 months of licensing on Netflix. The romantic comedy noticed Kaling play a obstetrician/gynecologist juggling her private and demanding skilled life in New
What makes this license to Netflix much more humorous is the actual fact the ultimate season of the present was revived at Hulu and was dubbed a Hulu Original. Who would’ve thought {that a} Hulu present would drop on Netflix US just some years in the past!?
Suits
Owner of the Show: Universal Content Productions
Added to Netflix: June seventeenth, 2023
Seasons / Episodes: 8 seasons / 124 episodes
The licensed present you most likely heard most about over the summer time was little doubt Suits. It made waves after fully dominating Nielsen charts for weeks (and nonetheless options even on the time of publishing), pulling in billions of minutes watched within the US alone every week.
The present, initially working on USA Network, depicted a regulation agency and the brand new wunderkind becoming a member of the agency with a photographic reminiscence however notably lacking his regulation diploma.
There are quite a few explanation why Netflix knew it’d do effectively on the service; in any case, it already has carried the worldwide rights for the present exterior the US for years now. Add the royal issue (it stars Meghan Markle) and the actual fact there are a number of addictive episodes to dig by, and also you’ve received a winner.
Netflix notably didn’t handle to decide up the ninth season, nevertheless, with that season nonetheless unique to Amazon. The complete season additionally continues to stream on Peacock.
Band of Brothers
Owner of the Show: HBO / Warner Bros. Television
Added to Netflix: September fifteenth, 2023
Episodes: 10
Picture: HBO
One community we didn’t point out above within the record of corporations that used to license to Netflix was HBO, and there’s cause for that. Beyond a brief take care of Prime Video, HBO caught to its weapons and by no means licensed to anybody. That’s why the addition of a slew of HBO reveals over the summer time (and extra to come back) within the US and overseas was so gobsmacking.
We’re choosing out Band of Brothers not solely as a result of it’s among the finest items of artwork depicting the occasions of World War II but in addition as a result of it demonstrates why HBO wished to maintain its content material to itself. It’s premium. It’s not TV. It’s HBO.
New Amsterdam
Owner of the Show: Universal Television
Added to Netflix: January 1st, February 1st, September twentieth
Seasons/Episodes: 5 seasons, 89 episodes
Picture: NBC Universal
When it involves medical dramas, for no matter cause Netflix has by no means moved into the style. Sure, it’s received some wonderful documentaries on hospitals and people within the occupation, nevertheless it doesn’t have any scripted medical dramas and, for probably the most half, has been reliant on annual drops of Grey’s Anatomy that it nonetheless carries from an outdated legacy take care of ABC.
That’s modified in 2023 with three drops of seasons of the NBC medical drama on the platform all year long with the ultimate season arriving on September twentieth.
The medical drama follows the life and work of Dr. Max Goodwin as he turns into the medical director of one of many oldest public hospitals within the United States.
S.W.A.T.
Owner of the Show: Sony Pictures Television (airs on CBS)
Added to Netflix: May seventeenth, September 1st
Seasons/Episodes: 6 seasons, 128 episodes
Picture: CBS
Set within the shared universe of FX’s The Shield and primarily based on the 2003 film, this wonderful police procedural has additionally carried out effectively within the varied Nielsen charts since its preliminary arrival.
In the month the present received added to Netflix, the seventh season received canceled after which uncanceled throughout the area of every week. It’s unclear whether or not that seventh season will come to the service.
Netflix has a connection to S.W.A.T. within the type of the creator of the present, Shawn Ryan, who developed The Night Agent completely for Netflix.
Powerpuff Girls
Owner of the Show: Cartoon Network
Added to Netflix: April 4th
Seasons: 2 seasons
Picture: Cartoon Network
For the primary time in years, a number of Cartoon Network reveals returned to Netflix. Others included Justice League, Scooby Doo, Ben 10, and The Batman.
Created by Craig McCracken, who in recent times developed Kid Cosmic for Netflix, adopted three kindergarten women with superpowers combating towards Mojo Jojo and different villains.
The Mick
Owner of the Show: twentieth Century Fox Television / Fox
Added to Netflix: June 1st
Seasons / Episodes: 2 seasons and 37 episodes
twentieth Century Television, following their acquisition by Disney, principally shut off the licensing faucets (and even stopped producing Original content material) however that’s slowly been altering in recent times, with The Mick being considered one of their lesser-known titles that dropped on Netflix.
Sadly canceled after two seasons that ran in 2017 and 2018, The Mick was a few a troublesome, foul-mouthed lady, discovering herself out of her depth when taking care of his extra prosperous sister’s spoiled children.
Ugly Betty
Owner of the Show: ABC Studios
Added to Netflix: August 1st
Seasons / Episodes: 4 seasons / 85 episodes
ABC Studios
Our remaining decide is the newest addition to the Netflix library of the large new licensed titles. We’re referring to the US model of Yo soy Betty, la fea a few younger lady who, regardless of not conforming to conventional magnificence requirements, finds success on the earth of excessive trend and media whereas navigating the challenges of her unconventional look.
In this occasion, Netflix had streamed Ugly Betty a few years prior (it departed eight years in the past in 2015) and its re-addition didn’t actually make any affect within the prime 10s nevertheless it’s nonetheless sequence worthy of a rewatch of a spin for the primary time.
What licensed present have you ever been watching on Netflix this 12 months? Let us know within the feedback down under.