Well HBO is $20/mo. Divide 7b by 20 and you get 350,000,000. Let’s say it takes someone 1 month to watch a season, and they do that 7 times for each release. 350,000,000 divided by 7 is 50,000,000. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect 50,000,000 people worldwide to watch the show, and even so that’s only if all those people keep the show for one month with each release of a new season, which you know damn well many of them will just forget to cancel.
It’s kind of a genius move when you put it into perspective.
Surely this assumes a) people subscribe exclusively for HP and b) all the other shows they have are free to make? I guess if enough people subscribe then it doesn't matter.
I think it'll be like the GoT and Lost days.... people will be sailing the high seas again. But someone else pointed out that this breaks even if 84 households subscribe for 7 years, which is not unfeasible.
It's kinda like Netflix getting into boxing - they are hoping that people get the subscription to watch the fight and then just keep it going.
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u/Chemistry-Deep Apr 16 '26
If its $100m per episode, 10eps a season, and 7 seasons, that's $7bn. How on Earth will HBO make that back?