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Increasingly it's actually "same old same old" coumfort programming that people are turning to streamers for. The most streamed show on Netflix in the US last year was Suits and the rest of the top ten was entirely aquired shows from traditional telly, old and new, too. Netflix would be nothing without the vast catalogue of acquired shows it's built it's empire on. It's still these shows that most subscribers are watching.

I don't know enough about TV in the US and what shows are airing where and if Suits for example has been available on traditional broadcast TV since ending, but if it were the case, how prominent was it? That makes a difference.

In the UK though people don't just have Netflix so they can watch old shows. Maybe UK broadcasters can't get certain shows because they've already been locked into exclusivity contracts with streamers but it's also the case that UK broadcasters even if they could afford it wouldn't show US stuff here because too many viewers would turn their noses up at US shows, partly because they've got into set ways of watching certain programmes at certain times which I class as the "same old same old". Shows that are on Netflix, whether old or new, aren't "same old same old" if they aren't airing on terrestrial TV or part of viewers' normal watching habits.