About sixty television series withdrawn from OCS catalog in France after end of an agreement with HBO

The contract which linked the orange bouquet to the American chain ended in 2022. A large part of the series has not, for the moment, been taken up by any other diffuser.

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Game of Thrones, Les Soprano, Chernobyl or even Sex and the City: These are some of the unavailable series, since Monday 1 January, in the catalog of the bouquet of orange cinema series ( OCS) broadcast in France. According to the specialized media Numerama , it is a total of sixty-four series of the American HBO chain which are now not found in France, less to go through a paid video offer on demand.

In question, the broadcast contracts concluded between OCS and the American pay channel belonging to the Warner Bros Discovery group, which ended in 2022 and were not renewed. All the HBO series over two years have therefore left the OCS catalog. The more recent series, such as the prequel of the Game of Thrones series, House of the Dragon, or The White Lotus, are not affected and remain accessible on the platform.

The end of the agreement between Warner Bros Discovery and OCS was planned to give way to the launch of the new HBO Max streaming service in France, recalls the site digital . This launch is however postponed to 2024. The series that have left the OCS programs therefore have no broadcaster in France.