We're now just a week away from when Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ) will drop the Lilyhammer on its subscribers.
The video service giant's first original series stars Steven Van Zandt as a mobster sent to Lillehammer in Norway after ratting out a mob kingpin. The inaugural season will play out over eight episodes.
I can't be the only one that figured that when Netflix begins rolling out its original programming -- Lilyhammer next week, House of Cards later this year, and the Arrested Development revival next year -- that the new episodes would be dispensed in weekly installments.
It's the way that traditional television does it. It's the way that Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX ) HBO -- Netflix's closest match on the premium end and the gold standard of original series airings -- does it. Why should Netflix veer from the formula that works?
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