Netflix may have more original programming coming in the months ahead, but the company is also going to be losing quite a few titles as well. According to InstantWatcher, a site that catalogs the comings and goings of Netflix's streaming catalog, the service will be saying farewell to 1,794 different titles in May. That number includes 15 seasons of South Park, old horror movies like Audrey Rose, and James Bond classics like Dr. No and Goldfinger. According to Slate , the drop comes because several licensing deals Netflix has in place with studios like MGM, Warner Bros., and Universal are expiring.
While it has been posited that the titles were disappearing because they were heading to the Warner Instant Archive streaming service, that...
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