Netflix (NFLX), AMC Networks (AMCX) Ink Multi-Year Licensing Deal

Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) and AMC Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: AMCX) have reached a multi-year licensing agreement that will make prior seasons of AMC's critically-acclaimed original series, The Walking Dead, available exclusively to Netflix members in the U.S. and Canada. Season 1 of The Walking Dead will be available today. Additional seasons of The Walking Dead, as well as certain future AMC and Sundance Channel programming, will be streaming instantly to Netflix members just prior to the premiere of subsequent seasons.

Netflix has also licensed non-exclusive rights in the U.S. to select scripted and unscripted shows, which will also be made available just before the following season debut. This includes programming from across the AMC Networks portfolio of AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel, and WE tv. Specific series include IFC's Portlandia and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; WE tv's Braxton Family Values, My Fair Wedding, and Bridezillas; and Sundance Channel's All On The Line with Joe Zee and Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys.

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