{"id":640921,"date":"2013-02-01T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=214508"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:17:21","slug":"amazon-steals-downton-abbey-from-netflix-hulu-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640921","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Steals Downton Abbey From Netflix & Hulu – Past, Present, and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of right now, you can watch the hit Masterpiece Classic show Downton Abbey on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Instant Video. Some time this year, that will no longer be the case. <\/p>\n

Amazon has just announced a deal with PBS Distribution that will make Prime Instant Video the only place that Downton Fans will be able to stream the show.<\/p>\n

Eventually. Amazon will have exclusive rights to Downton Abbey Season 3 (currently airing) on June 18th, and will gain exclusive rights to the other two seasons “later this year.” No specifics on the actual date that you’ll see Downton disappear from Netflix and Hulu. <\/p>\n

Not only that, but Amazon is keeping Downton out of the hands of Netflix and Hulu for the foreseeable future. Prime Instant Video will continue to be the exclusive subscription home of season 4 and season 5, if that actually becomes a thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur Prime customers have spoken\u2014they can\u2019t get enough of the MASTERPIECE CLASSIC series \u2018Downton Abbey.\u2019 The series is consistently in our top most watched TV shows each week, making it the most popular TV series with Prime Instant Video customers, ever,\u201d said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon. \u201cPrime Instant Video will soon be the exclusive subscription video streaming home for \u2018Downton Abbey.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a big move by Amazon to secure the rights to an extremely popular show. Locking up exclusive rights to Downton Abbey’s past, present, and future is a pretty good wallop to other streaming services – a scheme that Thomas could surely approve of. <\/p>\n

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As of right now, you can watch the hit Masterpiece Classic show Downton Abbey on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Instant Video. Some time this year, that will no longer be the case. Amazon has just announced a deal with PBS Distribution that will make Prime Instant Video the only place that Downton Fans will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}