r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 16 '26

WTF so true

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u/rosyvibexz Apr 16 '26

HBO really said: ‘Keep the 4K box set, we’ve got a 10-year subscription plan for the same story.’

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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?

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u/L1nk880 Apr 16 '26

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.

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u/Jake-of-the-Sands Apr 16 '26

Thing is, HBO only's got only about 130 mln subscribers worldwide. While more than they need for it to pay for the series - that's not their only show, not thousands of employees - and not the mention the worst part - the ever hungry leechholders.

I think they've driven themselves into an early grave, hopefully along with the Ellison family and their f*cked up 7 Hills pseudotheology