“Wednesday” remains on Netflix: because its passage to Amazon Prime Video would be excluded

Recently, Amazon’s purchase of MGM has generated speculation about the future of “Wednesday”, Netflix series around which a possible change of hand had been foreseen due to a rights issue. The source, The Independent, assured that said television drama could end up abandoning the aforementioned platform in favor of Prime Video, a possibility that IndieWire now excludes. This American medium treats the discord article as a hoax, and points out that the deal that allowed ‘Wednesday’ to reach the small screen has been closed for some time.

Despite this, the debate arose because of the details of the said MGM purchase because when Jeff Bezos’ company took over the said studio, it was not only acquiring future titles, but its back catalog as well. After an outlay of eight and a half billion dollars, MGM became part of Amazon, so it is to be expected that this company makes the most of its entire content library, but that would not mean that ‘Wednesday’ will move. MGM and Netflix closed the deal on said Wednesday Addams adventure in early 2021, and more than a year later the Amazon purchase was formalized.

As posted by IndieWire, noting that they have received no response from Netflix or Amazon, the idea of ​​the series switching from Netflix to Prime Video is insane at best. Also, at the end of last year, Deadline assumed that the renewal of “Wednesday” would happen soon and that, Despite this new corporate situation, talk of a second season of the series would be fine.. Of course, assuming, the announcement of a season 2 could be delayed due to a “renegotiation” of the original deal that aims for a more beneficial future for Amazon.

In any case, ‘Wednesday’ would be no exception as MGM has content spread across multiple platforms, as is the case with ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ on HBO Max or ‘Vikings: Valhalla’, which will be released on January 12th. These series are just two of the titles that the studio has distributed among rival streaming platforms, in fact. ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ would be in an identical situation to that of ‘Wednesday’from the second season, despite the annexation between companies, it will continue to be part of the Netflix catalog.

“Wednesday” continues to break records

‘Wednesday’ continues to dance atop Netflix’s Global Top Series for the sixth consecutive week with 103.9 million hours viewed. However, the success of the series crosses the boundaries of the platform, leading the Nielsen ranking (via Deadline), which measures the audience for streaming content around the world. For the second week in a row, ‘Wednesday’ exceeds five billion hours viewed worldwide, crowning itself as the most watched series of the moment, at the culmination of the only three series that have reached this number of playing hours: “Stranger Things”, “Tiger King” and “Ozark”. To contemplate the magnitude of this data, one must take into account the fact that “Wednesday” has only eight episodes, compared to “Stranger Things” 32 or “Ozark” 44. We will be attentive to the progress of the unstoppable success of ‘Wednesday’.