Just now, I was bored, browsing through Netflix trying to find something to watch and came across the thumbnail for The Fall. This led me to research when season 3 would be airing because I've been very impatiently waiting since I binged the first 2 seasons in under 48 hrs about a year and a half ago. Turns out it airs today, Sept. 29th?! Whaaa?? How do I watch this since it clearly doesn't belong to Netflix anymore?
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shareNetflix is nuts calling every show from all over the world that they buy the airing rights to from other networks...as "Netflix Original."
It is misleading in the extreme. Except for a show made by Netflix like "Bloodline" or "House of Cards," I've seen every single "Netflix Original" up to a year or more on its own station in its own country where it really was an "original." To that country that network and that audience.
I can't imagine why Netflix persists in this lie that something is a Netflix "original." Sometimes it's not even exclusive to Netflix once it leaves the UK or Australia or Sweden.
It's online all over the world in all kinds of subscription services before finding its way--usually last of all outlets in the world--to Netflix. Yet, it's...an "original!" It's hilarious.
This is just yet another one of those.
It's being shown in Ireland, too, just like the last two series. Only the last two years I seem to recall each episode in Ireland was a week ahead of the episode on BBC2. So if you were in Ireland at the time, you could get a week in advance of the BBC2. Not sure if they are doing that this year. I didn't check.
Netflix: Known as the subscription service where you can be assured of getting non-U.S. show....utterly last in the entire international universe. haha
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The show was and still is made by the BBC, Netflix do this with a number of BBC shows. They should really be called exclusives rather than originals.
I remember Netflix advertising Peaky Blinders as an original even though we had already seen the first two series on BBC2 and the third had been confirmed.
It's odd but they must be paying the Beeb a shed load of money to get away with it.