Trying ahead to watching the brand new season of The Crown? You’ll need to pony up for a Netflix plan that doesn’t have adverts, then.
The streamer’s new ad-supported plan formally debuted right here within the U.S. on Thursday, and it does include a cheaper price: $6.99 per 30 days, lower than half the value of the present Normal plan ($15.49/month). Nevertheless it additionally comes with just a few key titles lacking, together with fashionable Netflix unique collection like The Crown and Cobra Kai, based on our sister website Selection.
Together with these two, the next TV exhibits aren’t out there to stream on the ad-supported plan: Arrested Growth, Breaking Unhealthy, Friday Night time Lights, Good Ladies, The Good Place, Gray’s Anatomy, Home of Playing cards, The way to Get Away With Homicide, The Final Kingdom, The Magicians, New Lady and Peaky Blinders. (Netflix has but to launch a full checklist of the exhibits not out there on the brand new plan.)
So why aren’t these exhibits out there? It comes all the way down to licensing agreements with the manufacturing firms that haven’t been ironed out. (The Crown and Cobra Kai each hail from Sony Footage Tv.) Netflix warned when it first introduced the ad-supported plan — which comes with 4 to five minutes of commercials per hour — that “a restricted quantity” of titles wouldn’t be out there at launch “resulting from licensing restrictions.”
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