Exclusive: MadMen global rights shopped as streaming wars heat up
which originally ran on AMC for seven seasons to 2015, to move to streaming homes next year.
That follows Lionsgate vice-chairman Michael Burns telling an investors conference last week the ad agency drama's global rights will return to Lionsgate next year.is coming back to us, with worldwide rights available. That will be an interesting conversation and I'm pretty sure Jeff will be involved in that," Burns announced to the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference during a session that was webcast and included an appearance by Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch.
Streamers from media titans including Disney , Comcast and WarnerMedia , as well as Apple are set to shortly launch as the media giants look to better position themselves against Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.may have the AMC drama from creator Matthew Weiner going to Netflix, or WarnerMedia's HBO Max in the U.S. and Netflix elsewhere internationally.
"We're hanging onto significant rights that we can exploit with Starz and other places as well. It's really a case-by-case evaluation and working with Jeff on what our priorities are for driving viewership," Burns said.
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