ted sarandos, thank you so much for doing this. get a sense of your own background, who were the sarandos family? the sarandos families are... my grandfather was alex sarandos, he came from greece as a young man, he left home, in search of what he thought was a realjob in america, which was to be a trial cook, because he used to read cowboy novels all the time and he thought that was going to be a realjob he could do in america. he went to new york and became a cook, but not on the trail, in a kitchen. and from there, eight kids, and he made one vacation in his lifetime, which was to go to arizona to see a rodeo, and talked about it until the day he died, and the day he died, all of his eight kids, almost in tribute to him, moved to arizona, so i was raised in phoenix and i've been in la now for about 20 years. it's a classic immigrant story, isn't it? of extremely hard work, extremely determined and ultimately, driven by the power of a story, which is the story of an american promise, right? yeah, pretty much. and what did your par

netflix's chief content officer, ted sarandos, spoke to our media editor amol rajan earlier this summerd he's confident people will keep paying for shows they want. the more competitors you have in the direct space that keep everybody on their toes, it's great for consumers because its price competition and also everybody has to kind of one up each other on quality of programming. do you think that people are going to stop paying for this stuff? you have to find great value in it and our subscribers find great value because there's so many shows to watch and many are your favourite shows on television. they will add other subscriptions to the mixed. if you love netflix but you love game of thrones, you have to go somewhere else for game of thrones, but everything you love is on netflix, and that's what we're trying to focus on. fergus hay from the communications agency leagas delaneyjoins me now. fergus, it's interesting, 2.7 million new subscribers doesn't sound bad but the fact it's about half what they are forecasting, is that a worrying sign? netflix have built incredible value base

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