The bad news is that our bulging tips box reports Netflix’s website and Watch Instantly streaming service were mostly inaccessible for the last couple of hours. Those lucky enough to have the page open from earlier should have access, and devices in accordance with older UIs are up and running while the newer HTML5 based frontends appear down for the count. The more severe news is Crain’s Ny Business reported today that a brand new licensing handle Showtime can not renew streaming access to older seasons of currently airing shows like Dexter and Californication when they expire this summer. Instead, their arrangement will cover shows which are off the air like The Tudors and Sleeper Cell.
Showtime has decided to hang the fresher stuff back for its TV Everywhere portals accessible by pay-TV subscribers despite Netflix’s best efforts to pitch itself as a pal to the premium networks, that can also explain its plan to start out offering original content of its own next year . Wide outages like this were relatively rare and while we’ll just keep watch over @NetflixHelps until it’s back up, there’s no telling what other blank spaces we’d find in our instant streaming queues sooner or later.
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