Coming to AMC: Pro Wrasslin'(?!)

[Mark Jeffries]

The TNA promotion's Thursday night show, currently on co-owned AXS TV (BTW, Mark Cuban and Seacrest presently seem to have nothing to do with AXS), moves to AMC and AMC+ on Jan. 15, in what seems like a desperation move for the cable channel that pissed off classic movie fans from its American Movie Classics days to become the symbol of Prestige TV on basic cable (although admittedly they've been ODing on the "Walking Dead" franchise lately), but that's what basic cable has come to:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tna-wrestling-thursday-night-impact-amc-watch-1236439411/

[M-D November]

This deal is huge for TNA, as it gets them back into the realm of 'basic cable' for the first time in a long while, but it's terrible for AMC as it completes their scope-creep into essentially being a clone of TNT or USA Network.

Speaking of, the potential Netflix/WB deal could stir the pot some where the rasslin' landscape is concerned - Netflix is tied up with WWE, but their biggest competitor, AEW, is heavily embedded with the Turner networks and HBOMax. I know the cable channels aren't part of Netflix's offer, but it'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out - assuming Netflix consolidates HBOMax into their existing footprint, AEW will likely need to find a new streamer - possibly Prime Video, as I think they're one of the few major streamers that aren't somehow tied up with WWE.

[Tom Wolper]

I don’t want to put too much into this morning’s corporate call, but Netflix knows that a lot of people subscribe to both Netflix and HBO Max and they might be in no hurry to combine the services. So AEW could continue on HBO Max.

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[M-D November]

Wouldn't that just create another Disney+/Hulu situation?  (Or, to cite a more direct example, an HBOMax/Discovery+ situation?) What's the advantage to maintaining 2 services that more or less serve the same purpose?