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Peacock Reveals Launch Date, Pricing And Exclusive Olympic & Premier League Programming

Peacock, the streaming service being rolled out by NBCUniversal and Comcast, will arrive April 15 on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex video platforms before a national launch on July 15.

It will come in three versions: a free, ad-supported one; a more robust, ad-supported one that will be free to Comcast and Cox Cable subscribers, and $5 for everyone else; and an offering with no ads that is $5 for Comcast and Cox subscribers and $10 for everyone else.

The service will have an “early bird” launch in April for subscribers of X1 and Flex, which account for a majority of total subscribers to the No. 1 U.S. cable operator. The national rollout comes just before the July 24 start of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which offers the company a large promotional megaphone. A bundled arrangement with Comcast and Cox Cable will also kick in at that time, making Peacock available in 24 million homes.

Peacock Free includes next-day access to current seasons of freshman broadcast series, a range of film and TV titles but only select episodes of marquee Peacock originals and tentpole series. It will also feature curated Peacock streaming genre channels like “SNL Vault,” “Family Movie Night” and “Olympic Profiles.”

Peacock Premium, meanwhile, adds full-season Peacock originals and tentpole series and next-day access to current seasons of returning broadcast shows. It also throws in early access to late night titles like the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and sports attractions like exclusive Premier League soccer matches, Olympic programming.

Programming will include 600 movie titles and 400 series, including NBC broadcast mainstays like the Law & Order franchise, The Office and Parks and Recreation; acquired titles like Yellowstone and Two and a Half Men, and a slate of original shows.

I liked the book.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/game-of-thrones-prequel-house-of-the-dragon-premiere-date-2022-hbo-boss-more-got-pilot-naomi-watts-1202831792/

So, not this year, or next year; the year after that.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/our-first-look-at-the-discworld-tv-show-is-not-what-you-1841061466

“Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.” (Men at Arms).

SteveUK wrote:

https://deadline.com/2020/01/game-of-thrones-prequel-house-of-the-dragon-premiere-date-2022-hbo-boss-more-got-pilot-naomi-watts-1202831792/

So, not this year, or next year; the year after that.

Wow, why even bother… I don’t think people will be all that interested by then…

I also think HBO went with the lesser of the prequel spinoffs. The one with Naomi Watts that was to be set thousands of years earlier sounded way more promising than a show about the Targaryans rise to power.

Simpsons actor Hank Azaria says he will no longer voice character of Apu

 

Resident Alien Teaser Trailer | SYFY (x)

This small-town doctor is actually from outer space. Alan Tudyk stars in Resident Alien, based on the Dark Horse Comics series. Coming to SYFY this summer

SYFY has dropped the first [teaser] trailer for its TV adaptation of Resident Alien, a Dark Horse comic of the same name about an alien who crashes on our planet and impersonates a doctor. The newcomer (played by Doom Patrol’s Alan Tudyk) is benevolent enough, but he does struggle with the philosophical question of whether or not humanity deserves to be saved.

 

Dave wrote:

Simpsons actor Hank Azaria says he will no longer voice character of Apu

 

I saw this story floating around and thought it was just being reposted from a few years ago.  I thought he said he was going to quit voicing the character back then.

RonnieM wrote:

Dave wrote:

Simpsons actor Hank Azaria says he will no longer voice character of Apu

 

I saw this story floating around and thought it was just being reposted from a few years ago.  I thought he said he was going to quit voicing the character back then.

I think he said back then he’d be ok with not voicing the character if asked.

MaxMaxmarvel123 wrote:

Resident Alien Teaser Trailer | SYFY (x) This small-town doctor is actually from outer space. Alan Tudyk stars in Resident Alien, based on the Dark Horse Comics series. Coming to SYFY this summer SYFY has dropped the first [teaser] trailer for its TV adaptation of Resident Alien, a Dark Horse comic of the same name about an alien who crashes on our planet and impersonates a doctor. The newcomer (played by Doom Patrol’s Alan Tudyk) is benevolent enough, but he does struggle with the philosophical question of whether or not humanity deserves to be saved.

This is one of those, “I’m getting too old for this shit” moments.

I feel like I’ve seen too many variations of this basic idea and especially the “whether or not humanity deserves to be saved” bit.

No date yet, but still great news.

 

 

Disney+ European Launch Date Brought Forward, Pricing Revealed

The Disney+ European launch date has been brought forward by a week to March 24. The studio has also confirmed pricing of £5.99/€6.99 ($8) per month, or £59.99/€69.99 for an annual subscription.

The service will be available on that date in UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Switzerland. Additional Western Europe markets, including Belgium, the Nordics, and Portugal, will follow in summer 2020.

Disney hasn’t given a reason for the date change. The European date was originally set for March 31.

Oh I am pleased. Inside No. 9 is a great show.

50 Karma points to Jerry!

SteveUK wrote:

This is one of those, “I’m getting too old for this shit” moments. I feel like I’ve seen too many variations of this basic idea and especially the “whether or not humanity deserves to be saved” bit.

I can understand that feeling. Personally though, I’ll take a look. The comic book that this is based on is very good, and Tudyk is perfect casting. It does look like the show is a lot goofier than the book though (which has a lot of gentle humour, but mostly plays the whole thing straight).

Christian wrote:

It does look like the show is a lot goofier than the book though (which has a lot of gentle humour, but mostly plays the whole thing straight).

I only read the first series but I don’t like the goofy take in the TV series, if indeed that’s the direction they’re going. That was a big turn off for me.

New Walking Dead Spinoff: AMC Sets End Date 3 Months Ahead of Premiere

Speaking to reporters last week at the Television Critics Assoc. winter press tour, AMC president Sarah Barnett declared that the franchise’s third series (following The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead) would not imitate its predecessors “in substance or form,” before announcing, “World Beyond is a two-season closed-ended series that will tell a very specific and distinct story.”

World Beyond, which is set to premiere on Sunday, April 12, at 10/9c immediately following the Season 10 finale of the mother ship (watch trailer), will focus on the first generation of survivors to be brought up post-apocalypse. Specifically, it will revolve around a pair of young heroines played by Alexa Mansour (The Resident) and Aliyah Royale (The Red Line).

Season 2 of Atrered Carbon finally coming on February 27th.

Season Two of the sophisticated and compelling sci-fi drama finds Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself recruited back to his home planet of Harlan’s World with the promise of finding Quell. Haunted by his past and responsible for investigating a series of brutal murders, Kovacs is stunned to discover his new mission to solve the crime and his pursuit to find Quell are one and the same. With the help of his loyal A.I. Poe (Chris Conner), Kovacs must now partner with new allies to outwit his enemies and find the truth: Who is Quellcrist Falconer?

Well, looks like they’re ditching most if not all the plot of Broken Angels and kinda adapting Woken Furies, even though Colonel Carerra, Hideki,  and the Archaeological Dig AI were listed in the cast.

The description of the new season does not fill me with confidence.

Ian Smith wrote:

Season 2 of Atrered Carbon finally coming on February 27th.

And the teaser is, like, hey, there’s a two. Because it’s season two. Wow.

This is coming in February. I’m surprised we don’t get to see more.

Still. Looking forward to it.

Poe is back.

The rest is just details.

New Narcos, Altered Carbon – Feb is looking good for Netflix.

Not to mention Ghibli.

It also marks the end of BoJack Horseman.

Rick Remender Signs 3-year Deal with Sony and Adapting Fear Agent for Amazon (x)

Rick Remender and his production company Giant Generator have signed a three-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television and they’ve already set up a Fear Agent TV adaptation at Amazon The trade goes on to say that Amazon beat out NBC’s Peacock and Warner Media’s HBO Max and TNT, who were also bidding on the Fear Agent adaptation as well.

The show will be written by Mattson Tomlin (upcoming 2021 The Batman) with the pilot directed by David F. Sandberg (Shazam!).  Sandberg is onboard as a producer, alongside the comic book co-creators Remender and Tony Moore, along with Seth Rogen, Matt Tolmach, and Lotta Losten.

Hopefully they will treat him better than SyFy did with Deadly Class.

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First pictures from the new Red Dwarf special.

Looks like they’re finally doing a story about the rest of the cat race.

Have they ever been seen before? I could have sworn they were in an episode in one of the early series, but I’ve never noticed again (I’ve not gone out of my way to rewatch all of it in quite a while).

Other Cats haven’t been seen in live action since a single Cat-priest in a Series I episode (who dies in that episode) – but one of the earliest episodes described how they developed – including their religion based on Lister – and ultimately left Red Dwarf on space arks, so presumably this will pick up from that.

Since the first series there have been occasional teases (the recent Series XI had a character who initially appeared to be a Cat female but then turned out to be a Polymorph) but no appearances.

Oh, and there was also a ‘lost’ Series VII episode that was written and storyboarded but never produced that revolved around Cat and would have included other members of his race.

JRCarter wrote:

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What happened to Fillon? He looks so gaunt in that photo.

Too bad to hear Stumptown is not doing great. It’s been decent entertainment so far.

rory wrote:

What happened to Fillon? He looks so gaunt in that photo.

I watched the first episode of The Rookie season 2 last night and I kept thinking that too. I’m a bit worried he’s ill.

including their religion based on Lister

I think you’ll find their religion was based on Cloister the Stupid.

It does bother me that the Cats in that new photo aren’t wearing red or blue hats.

rory wrote:

Too bad to hear Stumptown is not doing great. It’s been decent entertainment so far.

the episode they are talking about was, iirc, their first back from the holiday break so it might improve now that people know it is back. I agree with you about the entertainment value.

TBH, I haven’t heard of most of those shows. Aside from Stumptown and The Rookie, the rest have flown below my radar.

njerry wrote:

TBH, I haven’t heard of most of those shows. Aside from Stumptown and The Rookie, the rest have flown below my radar.

Emergence is very good. It feels like one of those mid-00s post-Lost SF shows with big mysteries, but one which actually regularly gives answers to the mysteries it introduces. It’s by the Agent Carter showrunners, and has a great cast headed by Alison Tolman and Clancy Brown. Enver Gjokaj just showed up too.

Martin Smith wrote:

rory wrote:

What happened to Fillon? He looks so gaunt in that photo.

I watched the first episode of The Rookie season 2 last night and I kept thinking that too. I’m a bit worried he’s ill.

Oh he definitely lost weight between S1 & 2… but he was chunky in S1… My first thought was “oh he must be getting in shape for one of those SH movies”… he doesn’t look sick to me.

He’s getting older. It happens.

No it doesn’t.

Anonymous wrote:

No it doesn’t.

It’s hell getting old.

I refuse! Also, I have a cunning plan.

I’m still working on perfecting my Paul Rudd formula.

An artist pal keeps promising me a portrait for the attic as a back-up. Getting old alone would be hell. You’re too smiley to age.

Just remember that in the end, Entropy always wins.

Matthew McConaughey, True Detective Creator Reunite for FX Mystery Drama

Redeemer is based on Patrick Colman’s 2019 novel The Churchgoer, and centers on a “minister-turned-dissolute security guard whose search for a missing woman in Texas leads him through a corruption-steeped criminal conspiracy, as his past and present impact and entwine around a mystery of escalating violence and deceit.” The series marks Pizzolatto’s first project under his new overall deal with Fox 21 TV Studios and FX Productions. McConaughey also has inked a first-look TV deal with FX.

Todd wrote:

Just remember that in the end, Entropy always wins.

But in the end, it doesn’t even matter.

Well then, I shall become a ghost in the machine and come back and haunt entropy’s stupid face.

Sky ended up being bought by Comcast rather than Disney last year and the first ramifications (ignoring that almost everything on Sky One is now sponsored by Universal Studios) have become clear.

Universal channel was put down this weekend, which makes sense. It’s always had a kind of B List feel to it and as a general entertainment channel, it’s a bit superfluous when you now own Sky One. Most of its catalogue of new shows (SVU at least) has gone to Sky Witness.

Replacing it in the EPG is Sky Comedy, which has a few HBO shows from Sky Atlantic (Curb, Girls, Real Time, Last Week Tonight will be going there) but is mostly a dumping ground for NBC’s recent back catalogue of sitcoms. Parks and Rec, 30 Rock and The Mindy Project in heavy rotation.

More interesting though is that they’re showing The Tonight Show, Late Late Show With James Corden and Saturday Night Live, all a day after they air in the US. I think that’s the first time anyone’s done that for SNL. It’ll be interesting to see how long it lasts in a prime time Sunday night slot.

Anonymous wrote:

But in the end, it doesn’t even matter.

Linkin Park much?

yes. But this is supposed to be the telly thread.

(That’s directed at me for getting in the way of TV news not anyone else btw)

Martin Smith wrote:

Sky ended up being bought by Comcast rather than Disney last year and the first ramifications (ignoring that almost everything on Sky One is now sponsored by Universal Studios) have become clear.

Universal channel was put down this weekend, which makes sense. It’s always had a kind of B List feel to it and as a general entertainment channel, it’s a bit superfluous when you now own Sky One. Most of its catalogue of new shows (SVU at least) has gone to Sky Witness.

Replacing it in the EPG is Sky Comedy, which has a few HBO shows from Sky Atlantic (Curb, Girls, Real Time, Last Week Tonight will be going there) but is mostly a dumping ground for NBC’s recent back catalogue of sitcoms. Parks and Rec, 30 Rock and The Mindy Project in heavy rotation.

More interesting though is that they’re showing The Tonight Show, Late Late Show With James Corden and Saturday Night Live, all a day after they air in the US. I think that’s the first time anyone’s done that for SNL. It’ll be interesting to see how long it lasts in a prime time Sunday night slot.

I remember SNL being on some channel or other in the 90s with a short delay from it’s US airing.  I think it was Sky, but I’m not sure.

Didn’t know SNL was going to be on. I might check that out.

Dave wrote:

Didn’t know SNL was going to be on. I might check that out.

Be sure to watch it from a recording so you can forward through 90% of it.

‘One Piece’ Live-Action Series Based On Manga Classic Ordered By Netflix From Tomorrow Studios

Very exciting.

Inded it is.

They could call the show Better Than Breaking Bad and they’d be right.

‘Ray Donovan’ Canceled By Showtime After 7 Seasons; Won’t Get Final Season 8

‘Judge Jerry’ Picked Up For Second Season, Adding To List Of Syndication Renewals

https://ew.com/tv/2020/02/06/atx-television-festival-2020-scrubs-cougar-town-reunions/

I hope they are somewhat in character and John C McGinley calls Zach Braff by girls names the entire panel. Dr. Cox was one of the greatest characters of its time.

rory wrote:

Still weird how it’s almost here and the teaser  hardly shows any proper footage from the show.

Gareth Evans’ TV show:

The Goonies re-enactment drama nabs Fox pilot pickup (x)

Fox Television (not to be confused with 20th Century Fox Television) has begun development on a Goonies semi-reboot TV pilot revolving around a troubled teacher who attempts to create a shot-for-shot remake of the cult 1985 film alongside three students.

Sarah Watson will pen the script for the project, which hails from Warner Bros. TV, Fox’s content accelerator SideCar and Amblin TV.

Greg Mottola (Superbad, HBO’s The Newsroom) will executive produce and direct the pilot. SideCar’s Gail Berman will also exec produce alongside Lauren Shuler Donner, Richard Donner and Amblin’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank

Here’s the official description:

“After failing to make it in New York and carrying a heavy secret with her, Stella Cooper returns to her distressed automotive hometown to substitute teach. She finds inspiration, hope and ultimately salvation when she agrees to help three students who are pursuing their filmmaking dreams by putting on an impossibly ambitious shot-for-shot remake of one of their favorite movies — The Goonies. Over the course of the season of the potential series, their passion will inspire a town in desperate need of hope in this love letter to the power of cinema, storytelling and dreams.”

Especially for Christian:

 

Synopsis for the Red Dwarf Special:

http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2020/02/14/whats-it-all-about/

The new 90-minute special is the thirteenth outing of the legendary sci-fi comedy. It reunites the original cast of Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (Cat) Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) and sees the return of Holly (Norman Lovett) the much loved ship’s computer. Written and directed by Doug Naylor, it was recorded in front of a live studio audience over two nights at the world famous Pinewood Studios.

Three million years ago… David Lister, a vending machine repairman, was sentenced to eighteen months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf. While Lister remained in stasis, a radiation leak killed the rest of the crew. Safely sealed in the hold, the cats evolved into humanoid form. The cats now roam deep space in a fleet of their own…

The special will see the posse meet three cat clerics (Tom Bennett, Mandeep Dhillon, Lucy Pearman) who worship Lister as their God. Lister vows to help them as they’re being hunted by Rodon, the ruthless feral cat leader (Ray Fearon) who has vowed to wipe out all cats who worship anyone but him.

Now we know what happened to the cats all that’s left to ask is… where do all the calculators go?

Speaking of Season 4:

New season of Fargo looks amazing.

Feels like the period setting freed them in some ways, but like it’s definitely still Fargo.

Oh, and I almost clapped when Timothy Oliphant popped up. Typically awesome cast, but that one made me particularly happy.

His cameo towards the end of the Good Place was the best joke that show ever did.

The cast of Masters of the Universe: Revelation is POWERFUL! pic.twitter.com/c2JSMuBSRD

— NX (@NXOnNetflix) February 14, 2020

I didn’t realise that a fourth series of The Trip was on the way so soon until I read this nice interview with Coogan and Brydon. Can’t wait!

Taika Waititi & Jude Law teaming up on The Auteur at Showtime (x)

Judge Law is in talks to star in Showtime’s limited series The Auteur with director Taika Waititi on board to exec produce, as well as direct some of the episodes. Since the show is still in development, it’s unknown how many episodes Waititi would direct. Taika will also co-write the show with Peter Warren.

Showtime had no comment on the project. Eric Gitter of Closed on Mondays is also and EP on the project. The show is from endeavor content and legendary entertainment and is based on the One Press graphic novel series by James Callahan and Rick spears.

The Auteur is followed a producer named Nathan T. Rex whose career spirals downhill as he attempts to resurrect his career by enlisting the aid of serial-killer-turned-murder-consultant Darwin, his assistant Igor, narcotics from Doctor Love and the lovely actress Coconut. T. Rex will do anything to keep his career from imploding, which is bad news for everyone.

Based on the Vault comic.

On Netflix internationally.

“I Am not Okay with This” looks like it’s a good show, but I don’t know if the 80s setting and Stephen-King-inspired stories should stay a thing forever… (this is basically a more positive, fun version of Carrie, yeah?).

Vagrant Queen looks too cheap and too silly, at least for me. Pass, unless I hear very good things about it

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Westworld S3 looks fucking awesome. I hope they do go as all-in on this as the trailer seems to indicate. Also, great version of Sweet Child of Mine.

Yeah, that Westworld trailer has me excited for the third season. It feels like the scope and ambition of the show have expanded massively.

After last season I thought I was done with WestWorld, but that trailer….!!

FYI, Season 3 of Westworld will only have 8 episodes.

After S2, I decided to give up on the show. That trailer has done nothing to change my mind.

You fools don’t learn anything =P

Eh… who am I kidding, I’ll watch it too so I can bitch about it…

Jon wrote:

You fools don’t learn anything =P

I liked both seasons so far, so I’m looking forward to the third.

Yep. Like David, I enjoyed both seasons, although I did think S2 was considerably weaker – but then again, that was mainly due to its being a bit of a repetition of the first one, and the third is obviously going well beyond the established territory.

Westworld without the west is of far less interest to me.

But like Christian says, maybe my low expectations, after season 2 being a bit crap, are a plus though?

I can’t say I’m counting the days, but I will watch episode one of season three. If it sucks, that’s it. Then I’m done.

Not news, but on Facebook, Steve Bissette and Neil Gaiman had a brief conversation about the recent BBC version of ‘Dracula’ and Gaiman said;

It made me want to make a Dracula, for the first time in a very long time: it’s easy to forget that Dracula was a technothriller for Victorian times…

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.bissette.7/posts/10159684022423289

Yes please.

Transformers War for Cybertron, the story of Optimus vs Megatron yet again.

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The Transformers stuff is something I’ll never get. I mean, I loved the toys as a kid, but never having watched or read any Transformers content, it’s just – it’s weird how this is supposed to be an all serious story, but… those are all talking car robots! I mean, they’re robots that turn into fucking cars! They’re cars! There’s all this brooding darkness and death and… they’re cars!

I don’t know, cars turning into robots is a marginally more plausible concept than Dragons and Ice Zombies, and they managed to take that all fairly seriously in Game of Thrones.

I think it’s all about how you approach it in terms of the story tone. I like the more kid-friendly, fun Transformers stuff (the recent Bumblebee movie is a good example) but there’s no reason why the concept can’t be used to tell more adult stories too.

Christian wrote:

The Transformers stuff is something I’ll never get. I mean, I loved the toys as a kid, but never having watched or read any Transformers content, it’s just – it’s weird how this is supposed to be an all serious story, but… those are all talking car robots! I mean, they’re robots that turn into fucking cars! They’re cars! There’s all this brooding darkness and death and… they’re cars!

It was always sold less as talking cars that turn into robots and more as alien soldiers disguised on Earth – one of them might be even be in your driveway! The tagline from the toys was (Warrior) Robots in Disguise, after all.

But the real appeal of Transformers in fiction (for me at least) is when it transcends the basic story and becomes something more than just robot dad who turns into a truck punches evil gun robot and snivelling plane robot. Whether it’s the SF war epics Simon Furman wrote, or the by turns thoughtful and amusing analysis of PTSD and the stress of coming home from war of More than Meets the Eye/Lost Light, or asking the questions of how do you integrate a society after a brutal war in Robots in Disguise, or analysing the messiah myth in The Transformers/Optimus Prime.

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Christian wrote:

never having watched or read any Transformers content,

I feel like this needs to be remedied, stat!

• Furman’s run on Transformers US (#60-something to #80)
• Transformers: The Movie (1986)
• Beast Wars season 1-3
• More Than Meets The Eye/Lost Light.

Get on it, Christian!

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[Christian]

lorcan_nagle wrote:

But the real appeal of Transformers in fiction (for me at least) is when it transcends the basic story and becomes something more than just robot dad who turns into a truck punches evil gun robot and snivelling plane robot. Whether it’s the SF war epics Simon Furman wrote, or the by turns thoughtful and amusing analysis of PTSD and the stress of coming home from war of More than Meets the Eye/Lost Light, or asking the questions of how do you integrate a society after a brutal war in Robots in Disguise, or analysing the messiah myth in The Transformers/Optimus Prime.

Yeah, that’s kind of the point I was making – I am sure there is all that, but if you didn’t grow up getting used to the idea of taking the Transformers seriously at all, it’s a bit like The Unfunnies, only not aware of how weird it all is.

 

Dave wrote:

I don’t know, cars turning into robots is a marginally more plausible concept than Dragons and Ice Zombies, and they managed to take that all fairly seriously in Game of Thrones.

That’s not the kind of plausability we’re talking about though. World-building can pretty much make anything plausible – that’s how suspension of disbelief works, after all – as long as it is consistent, but if something looks as inherently silly as a big truck robot that’s supposed to be an alien fascist warlord… that’s not an image you can easily get past.

 

Martin Smith wrote:

Get on it, Christian!

Yeah, thanks, but I feel like I don’t need another injection of concentrated nerdism? I have enough of that in my blood already!

It’s quite nice to watch at least one of these things from the outside :)

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https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21150846/crunchyroll-originals-animated-shows-anime-webtoon-studios

FreakAngels! I hope it’s good; I loved the comic.

I hope Avatar gets some money out of this, because they probably need it. You’d hope they would at least bring the collections back into print, but I doubt they can afford it.

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paul f wrote:

I hope Avatar gets some money out of this, because they probably need it. You’d hope they would at least bring the collections back into print, but I doubt they can afford it.

They may have some extra copies in a warehouse. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it show up in an upcoming Previews at a drastically reduced price, if it hasn’t happened already.

It really shows how badly run they are because putting something back into print is the easiest way to make money in publishing. All your sunken costs are covered, you just call up and ask the printer to run as many as you want off. It’s easy to be conservative and do a low run that’s pretty much guaranteed to sell out and then call them up again when it does.

Instead they are doing things like buying a comics website which notoriously struggle to make any money while sitting on material by A-list talent. They are a deeply frustrating operation.

In one sense I hope something like this publicity from the show can being them some much needed cash but a harsher part of me thinks maybe this material is better off with someone else who can use it more effectively.

 

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Hunters achieves what no superhero show has done before