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Japan’s U-Next, CBS in content pact

CBS Television Studios drama The Good Wife

Japanese SVoD service U-Next has agreed a multi-series, multi-year content licensing agreement with CBS Studios International (CBSSI).

The agreement, the first of its kind between the two companies, will see U-Next subscribers gain access to more than 1,300 episodes of current and past programming from CBS Television Studios.

Shows include the NCIS franchise (NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans), Elementary, Hawaii Five-O and The Good Wife. Reign, which ended on The CW in 2016, will also become available for the first time in Japan.

“CBS’s broad, mass-appeal programming is perfectly suited to a market like Japan, where there is a huge appetite for consuming content across many different devices and platforms,” said Barry Chamberlain, president of sales at CBSSI.

Tenshin Tsutsumi, CEO of U-Next, added: “We are constantly striving to push the boundaries of the Japanese market, something that we feel CBS programming provides, especially premium content such as NCIS, Hawaii Five-O and the first-time launch of Reign in Japan.

“Our goal is to continue to expand our relationship with CBS in the future, bringing cutting-edge programming to our customers.”

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