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Cobra Kai


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https://collider.com/cobra-kai-season-4-netflix-hulu-leaving-youtube/

 

YouTube is shopping (what I imagine is) its most popular original series Cobra Kai, which has all kinds of buyers lined up, with — naturally — Netflix and Hulu the presumed frontrunners.

 

Season 3 of Cobra Kai is currently in the process of airing on YouTube, and Sony Pictures Television asked for permission to shop the show when YouTube declined to order Season 4, but what’s interesting is that the streamer only agreed to let go of the series provided Sony TV could find another home for it. That makes sense. Not only would YouTube be crazy to let the series leave as a free agent and not get any compensation for Cobra Kaiafter spending millions to market the show and develop its fanbase, but whether it’s Netflix or Hulu that wins this bidding war, both streamers will want to buy past seasons of the series. And that, I imagine, is what these negotiations boil down to. Because there’s no point in Netflix releasing Season 4 if viewers have to go to YouTube to watch the first three seasons and make sense of the story.

 

Of course, YouTube’s decision is also in line with its mission to retreat from original scripted programming — or at least shows that come at a premium, like Cobra Kai, which is spun off from the hugely successful Karate Kid franchise. It seems like a much more expensive show to produce than YouTube’s other scripted series, Liza on Demand starring popular Youtube personality Liza Koshy.
 

Meanwhile, as I wrote this article, Starz has revived YouTube’s canceled Step Up series, which really puts a fine point on this entire paragraph. At the end of the day, it just seems like no one really wanted to pay for content on YouTube… and they kinda knew that.

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5 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

I don’t care how shit it is. 
 

I can’t wait. 

It'll certainly pass the time as we're all stood in the queue for the supermarket waiting to collect our rations. 

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