TF1 lands on Netflix
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U.S. giant Netflix announced Wednesday a livestreaming and on-demand content agreement with French television group TF1, its first such deal with a major traditional broadcaster anywhere in the world, that would allow users to access the group's content without leaving the platform.
The service will launch in summer 2026, Netflix's co-chief executive Greg Peters told Agence France-Presse (AFP), while declining to name any of the financial or other details of the tie-up with TF1.
Netflix subscribers in France will get access to TF1's five TV channels and content from the group's own TF1+ streaming platform – all 'without ever having to leave the Netflix environment' on their smart TV or other device, the U.S. company said in a statement.
On offer will be sporting events, soap operas and reality shows such as the 'Survivor'-style 'Koh-Lanta.' TF1 and Netflix have for years collaborated on productions like 2019's historical drama 'Le Bazar de la Charite' .
But France's top private broadcaster – one of Europe's largest – has big ambitions for TF1+ to stand on its own two feet, making the more intimate tie-up with Netflix a surprise.The TF1 streaming platform aims to become the most popular free offering in France and the wider French-speaking world.'TF1+ is and will remain at the center of our strategy,' TF1 chief executive Rodolphe Belmer told AFP ahead of the announcement.
Belmer insisted that the deal did not risk 'cannibalization' of TF1+ and was 'truly complementary' in a media landscape of fragmenting audiences and growing on-demand viewing.
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