{"id":17594,"date":"2018-12-07T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2018-12-07T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:19:00","slug":"cartoon-of-the-week-netflix-is-keeping-friends-for-one-more-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/cartoon-of-the-week-netflix-is-keeping-friends-for-one-more-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon of the Week: Netflix is keeping \u201cFriends\u201d for one more year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, fans of the popular sitcom \u201c<strong>Friends<\/strong>\u201d freaked out when they noticed the series would finish showing on Netflix on Jan.1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No more of <strong>Joey\u2019s<\/strong> common (but not that common!) sense, <strong>Chandler<\/strong>\u2019s sarcasm or <strong>Monica<\/strong>\u2019s compulsive cleanliness \u2013 that seemed a tragedy to fans of the series.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t blame them \u2013 and neither did <strong>Netflix<\/strong>. \u00a0After this outpouring of grief, the streaming service announced that the show will remain on <strong>Netflix<\/strong> throughout 2019. To please the fans, <strong>Netflix<\/strong> will pay around $100 million for the rights to continue streaming the show.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a significant jump from the $30 million that <strong>Netflix<\/strong> paid previously. But considering that the future of entertainment turns around online viewing, <strong>Netflix<\/strong> is doing what it takes to expand its customer base, which now stands at 130 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, fans of the popular sitcom \u201cFriends\u201d freaked out when they noticed the series would finish showing on Netflix on Jan.1, 2019.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":17594},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}