How much did Netflix pay for one more year of Friends?

Movies & TV hard Data from 2018

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

$100,000,000

Roughly $100M.

Netflix paid roughly $100 million to keep Friends for a single additional year in 2019 — up from about $30 million a year. It then lost the show anyway when WarnerMedia launched its own service and paid $425 million for five years of it.

Where this number comes from

Source WarnerMedia and Netflix statements reported in the trade press
Figure refers to 2018
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