Time Warner Inc (TWX), The Walt Disney Company (DIS): Longships On The Horizon

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Result: Just as GoT begins winding down and going into hiatus next month — and its fans begin going into withdrawal — Amazon and MGM will move in to slake their thirst for ice and fire with an all-you-can-eat streamed offering of Vikings. Then, next year, Vikings will sail back in to take yet another ride on GoT’s coattails.

Foolish final thought
It’s at that point that things get really interesting for Time Warner Inc (NYSE:TWX), for News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) — and for MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) as well. For the books Martin has written so far, next year’s Season 4 will mark the penultimate. With only one more season certain to be produced, and with material written to support it, viewers will begin seeing the writing on the wall for long-in-the-tooth GoT.

At that point, viewers may realize that Vikings, not shackled to a lackadaisical author, and with several hundred years’ worth of historical material to draw upon, has much more of a future ahead of it. The profits HBO & Co. have milked from GoT will begin to evaporate, just as the profits from A&E’s franchise begin to roll in. (With the tide, of course.)

Then will the cry go forth: The king is dead! Long live the Jarl!

The article Game of Thrones? More Like Game of “Pwned” originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Rich Smith.

Fool contributor Rich Smith has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Amazon.com and Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS).

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