Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Netflix wants at least five new shows a year: 'The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us'

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We're just days away from the debut of the Netflix original series House of Cards — the first of many original productions debuting on the service this year — and it's becoming clear the company has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. In a lengthy profile on the company, GQ talks to Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos, who explains that he hopes for the company to generate a minimum of five original programs per year moving forward. Sarandos currently has $300 million in his budget for original programming, which has allowed Netflix to bring projects like Cards, Eli Roth's Hemlock Grove, and a new season of the cult classic Arrested Development to its customers.


Sarandos describes the company's pitch as being one...


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