Netflix might have lost Disney animated properties, and Warner stuff might be migrating to AT&T/Warner streaming services, but the world's biggest streamer is still bound and determined to be a Player in animation:
... Netflix is planting another flag in the ground with a new exclusive deal, making all future episodes of Pokémon exclusive to its platform in the US.
The new deal means the first 12 episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, the 23rd season of the iconic anime franchise, will be available to stream on Netflix starting June 12th, 2020. Future episodes will be added to Netflix every quarter for the rest of the season, according to the company. The Pokémon Company International has struck other deals with broadcasters around the world, but in the US, Pokémon is about to become a streaming exclusive.
Netflix will cede no ground to Disney+ or other animation streamers without a fight. But it's not just Pokemon:
... Netflix announced that they are getting access to all seasons of one of the best television series of all time this coming May, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
All three seasons of the show will arrive in the US on Netflix on May 15, which is 61 episodes in total.
Forbes is being a little breathless here, I think. "The best television series of all time"? I don't recall anybody working on it all those years ago when I was wandering around Nick on a weekly basis rushing up to me and gushing: "We're working on the best television series of all time!" (I mean, the crew liked it, thought it was good, but nobody went into screaming fits about it.)
Be that as it may, Netflix is making a hard run at the House of Mouse and others in the battle to be an animation standard-bearer. It's also got its own development slate of animation, produced in their Hollywood studio, and it's been aggressive in long-form animation as well, underwriting Klaus and the oncoming Glen Keane project.
Which, of course, bodes well for long-term animation employment in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
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