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The high price also reflects the fact that 2019 will, in all likelihood, be the show's final year as a Netflix "exclusive," and that a lower rate to keep the show there alongside its new home at At&T/WarnerMedia's new streaming service will likely be negotiated after next year.

Of course, there's also the real possibility that Friends will actually leave Netflix after 2019, as well. But at least that social media wildfire has been postponed for another 12 months, thanks to Netflix's legendarily deep pockets. And it's also worth noting that Friends is far from the only TV show or movie you might expect to be culled from Netflix and other current streaming services in the near future. John Stankey is the executive in charge of WarnerMedia, and at an AT&T conference last month, he said that streaming services like Netflix are "going to see a pretty substantial structural shift" over the next year and a half to two years as rights holders snatch up the most prized jewels of their libraries to attract customers to their own streaming services.

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And of course, a big deal like this is also good news for the six stars of the show, who reportedly get two percent of the show's syndication revenue thanks to contracts first negotiated back in 2000 – with a presumably similar deal for the show's revenue from home video and streaming.

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