Netflix develops pact with Discovery

Among debate around the major cost hike and losing its valuable pact with Starz, Netflix has inked one or more lasting deal: the business has extended its pact with Discovery Communications to include more prior-season and back catalog programming, and restored the non-exclusive agreement for just two more years.Discovery's Digital senior veep, Rebecca Glashow, mentioned in the release Wednesday ayem the organization "is actually platform agnostic and dedicated to satisfying curiosity on all consumer distribution platforms with different effective economic model."And Netflix's economic model is changing -- the business introduced this year's week that it may be splitting its DVD-by-mail service also it is much more lucrative streaming service into two separate companies, while using former re-named Qwikster. The restored concentrate on streaming content puts added pressure around the organization to produce deals like that certain.Programs trained in new deal include Discovery Channel's "Guy versus. Wild," TLC's "Agree the gownInch and Animal Planet's "River Monsters." Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com