{"id":153826,"date":"2016-02-02T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=153826"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:50:14","slug":"showmax-is-pulling-breaking-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153826-showmax-is-pulling-breaking-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"ShowMax is pulling Breaking Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax has warned subscribers that they only have 28 days left to watch Breaking Bad, as its licence will expire on 29 February.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-season series has a total running time of nearly 47 hours, so binge watching it in a month will take some commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was part of the normal process of retiring existing content and bringing on new content,&#8221; ShowMax told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve got a significant lead in content and by constantly refreshing the catalogue we intend to maintain that point of differentiation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although ShowMax is retiring Breaking Bad from its library, it will add a number of new shows and movies &#8211; including Watchmen, and all 9 seasons of\u00a0Scrubs.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on ShowMax<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153033-showmax-download-now-watch-later-feature-on-iphone-and-ipad.html\"><strong>ShowMax \u201cdownload now, watch later\u201d feature on iPhone and iPad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/151615-showmax-chromecast-and-apple-tv-support-still-in-the-works.html\"><strong>ShowMax Chromecast and Apple TV support still in the works<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/151515-netflix-versus-showmax.html\"><strong>Netflix versus ShowMax<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to watch Breaking Bad on ShowMax, you better get cracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":135088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,21633,32140],"class_list":["post-153826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-breaking-bad","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153832,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153826\/revisions\/153832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}