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The Change.org petition:
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Looks good… I wonder how they’ll handle the telepathic scene in the show? Anyways, next month… nice…
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Warrior is coming back:
Warrior Renewed for Season 3; Former Cinemax Series Moving to HBO Max
https://www.gq.com/story/warrior-season-3-justin-lin-hbo-max-interview
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There’s always a temptation with these things to treat it like a race, which is always a fun narrative for journalists, but there are a lot more scenarios at play.
Netflix grew above the predicted rate for 3 quarters due to lockdowns and then below forecast for the 4th, so essentially the growth is what they predicted but just in a different pattern where it was front loaded by outside influences. I think there’s still ample room for growth for them but most of it will be outside the mature English speaking markets like the US and UK.
Disney + is growing faster but it comes off a base of zero customers which is a lot easier.
It’s hard to predict right now because as Jon says there’s a possibility they can all survive and eventually make money like multiple TV networks have, or some may not be viable. Something like Apple TV is outside the norms I think of a broadcasting model, it’s being used with all the free subs as a retention tool for their devices business.
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Bit like amazon has an edge because their TV programme is also tied to other advantages that people have as “prime” customers.
Yes I saw an interesting example of that with Amazon as a rugby fan. Last November they bid for the sport for the first time (they have done some football and tennis before) with an international cup and people asked if they’d be looking to show more competitions in future, maybe the league or European cup. The reports back were they were specifically interested in the timeline of an autumn competition so people sign up to Prime, buy Christmas presents with the free shipping and then stick with the subscription.
That’s a way of thinking no sports channel has done before I think.
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Netflix is insanely over valued at a PE ratio of about 40x forecast earnings. Most of the big tech companies have been overvalued in recent years but the rest of them would appear to have a stronger core than Netflix, which is solely cranking up debt to crank out content to prop up a massive subscriber number that the market now expects to never, ever fall. I can’t see how it is sustainable at this level in the longer term.
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For the life of me I can’t fathom why they went with the name Peacock for their streaming service, other than the vague hope that “streaming cock” becomes the new “Netflix and chill”.
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For the life of me I can’t fathom why they went with the name Peacock for their streaming service
It’s because it’s NBC isn’t it?
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I’m still not sure I’m comfortable enough in my manhood to subscribe to something with the word cock in it.
No wonder Doc Ock never got his articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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He strikes me as more of an Apple TV kinda guy.
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Most of the big tech companies have been overvalued in recent years but the rest of them would appear to have a stronger core than Netflix
I disagree. They all load up on crazy debt and are overvalued but Netflix have increasingly unique content that they own. They have assets.
The real elephants in the room are the gig economy guys who basically just have an app anyone could replicate and PR to push it. Uber had to run away and exit South East Asia because an opponent just copied what they did but were nicer to the drivers. Business dead in 6 months because they have no assets past a simple mobile app I could get a couple of guys to replicate for $1000.
Every app that just delivers a service with no ownership of anything has a much weaker core than Netflix.
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They’re talking, which is a good sign. I hope it happens.
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‘What if Superman was your dad?’ Comics legend Mark Millar on Jupiter’s Legacy
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The Adventures of Luther Arkwright has been optioned for a TV show. An option doesn’t mean it’ll get made of course but it’d be cool.
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I just saw the trailer and you beat me to it.
Yes I have read the comic and it’s very good. The trailer looks pretty true to the book so far.
All the deadly virus stuff is in the original which came out years ago so a timely coincidence with the pandemic.
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Crazy that there’s a trailer for this, and that it’s out in June. Really flew in under the radar.
The trailer is a bit too saccharine, but I loved the books, and some of the visuals are straight from the comic. I hope they don’t play it too safe (which it feels like, maybe too much aimed at kids) and also go with the more adult and horrific aspects of the books. Definitely looking forward to seeing what they did with it, anyway.
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Doctor Who Star and Filmmaker Noel Clarke Accused of Being Serial Sexual Predator
Noel Clarke, a prolific actor, writer, and filmmaker in the U.K. who is perhaps best known for his work on Doctor Who, has been accused by 20 women of serial sexual predation. As reported in The Guardian, the women allege that Clarke has an established history of sexual harassment, bullying, unwanted groping and touching, verbal abuse, and professional misconduct dating back to 2004, in addition to a pattern of secretly filming the nude auditions of female actors. Among the detailed allegations against Clarke, whom The Guardian characterizes as a “serial abuser of women,” his victims claim his substantial power in the British film-and-television industry has made it easy for him to “prey on and harass female colleagues” regardless of their age or rank.
Ugh.
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I’ve read the full Guardian report. It’s pretty damning. He’s now had his BAFTA membership suspended.
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the nude auditions of female actors
It’s sad that women still feel they need to do these things. Despite any amount of coercion or deception, women should not feel they have to do these things. How does the amount of skin shown affect the talent and skill of any actor? If I am too naïve, I don’t mind staying that way.
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The stories about Clarke have brought up issues about John Barrowman as well – there’s a video from a convention panel (I’m not sure when from, but it was tweeted in 2019) where Clarke admiringly talks about how Barrowman would constantly get his dick out on set and touch things and people with it – something Barrowman is well known in the industry for and open about doing, apparently.
I read the Guardian article about Clarke last night (well, most of it – it just got too grim after a while). Saw a news report about it on the BBC this morning and wasn’t impressed how they spent more time on Clarke’s denial than the actual allegations. Even if that is legal arse-covering in the reporting, it served to minimise and undermine the story. They didn’t even mention that 20 women had come forward, making it seem like a relatively minor he said/she said.
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He also confesses to one of the accusations (because the woman in question raised it up the organisation at the time so it’ll be recorded and undeniable).
The 20 accusers thing is the main thing. We have to initially believe any accusation but they can be false, I have personally seen a rape accusation from a rather disturbed woman I knew that was undeniably false. I know because I was with the guy at the time as his alibi and it was all retracted.
That can happen. I don’t think it can happen 20 times from a variety of women from all kinds of different backgrounds and have nothing particularly to gain. As far as I can see none are threatening a civil case, which are much less common in the UK than the US and pay out far less money.
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but after a while, wouldn’t it all get saturated and the viewer get fatigued?
We’ve been asking about SH saturation for the last 10 years, soooo… doesn’t seem like it.
The thing is, SH can be many things, so yeah, you can have shows like the Boys, or like Doom Patrol, or like the CW crap, etc… same goes for movies… although I would agree that the Marvel stuff is getting a bit tiresome, but your milleage may vary… fortunately there’s a lot more stuff other than the MCU/Disney fare out there.
I wonder how something like MoS/BvS and Watchmen and those type of more serious and darker stories might’ve been received if they came out now, after 15 years of MCU stuff… I think people would’ve been a bit more receptive to something different now than they were then when the MCU was a lot more fresh.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-swartzwelder-sage-of-the-simpsons
Terrific interview with the highly Swartzweldian individual responsible for writing more Simpsons episodes than any other, non-Swartzweldian individuals.
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True story about Thundar the Barbarian: when Cartoon Network launched in the UK (around 92 or 93) it was essentially just a Hanna-Barbera archive channel for its first few years. So I got passingly familiar with a lot of old HB shows, some of which were probably quite niche even back when they were made: Funky Phantom, Jabberjaw, Punkin’ Puss and Mushmouse, Mighty Man and Yukk, the Galaxy Trio etc.
Anyway, one of these was Thundar, which in the opening titles explains how the moon crashed into the Earth in the year 1994. Which wasn’t the far-off future time it seemed when the show was made, it was now next year-ish. So cue 6 year old me being genuinely a bit terrified at the start of 1994 of the prospect of the moon crashing into the planet.
I can’t remember at what point I decided it probably wasn’t going to happen.
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So cue 6 year old me being genuinely a bit terrified at the start of 1994 of the prospect of the moon crashing into the planet. I can’t remember at what point I decided it probably wasn’t going to happen.
This is like when I spent 29th August 1997 nervously pacing around thinking “surely not”.
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New ‘Law & Order’ Spinoff ‘For the Defense’ Picked Up Straight to Series at NBC
Always a new L&O spinoff
Funny… Law and Oder: SVU… every case is a sexual assault. I watch it sometimes because of Ice T, the police investigation in the cases, the courtroom drama and legal chess game. There is a fictional college called Hudson University that has been used in so many episodes where the investigation is campus date rape, hazing, fraternity gang rape at a party in a dorm… You would think by now, everyone would get the point: Don’t send your daughter to that school.
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Funny… Law and Oder: SVU… every case is a sexual assault. I watch it sometimes because of Ice T, the police investigation in the cases, the courtroom drama and legal chess game. There is a fictional college called Hudson University that has been used in so many episodes where the investigation is campus date rape, hazing, fraternity gang rape at a party in a dorm… You would think by now, everyone would get the point: Don’t send your daughter to that school.
Actually considered writing a spec script for SVU entitled “Not That Damn School Again”.
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I can’t remember at what point I decided it probably wasn’t going to happen
1998 or thereabouts?
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I can’t remember at what point I decided it probably wasn’t going to happen.
January 1, 1995?
I mean, I’d like to think so, that I got to that day and felt a great sense of relief, but to be honest, I’m probably manufacturing that and had likely completely forgotten all about it by then. I moved house and changed school about 3 times in 1994, there was a lot competing for my attention.
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Game of Thrones: HBO Releases First Photos of House of the Dragon Spinoff
HBO has released the first images from Game of Thrones‘ first spinoff, House of the Dragon, production of which got underway last month.
The primary image above is of Emma D’Arcy’s Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Matt Smith’s Prince Daemon Targaryen. Scroll down to check out the two additional pics.
The release comes roughly two weeks after HBO offered the first behind-the-scenes photo from the show, of the actors gathered for an in-person, socially distanced table read.
In an interview in February, HBO/HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys told TVLine that the sequel, which will focus on Daenerys Targaryen’s ancestors, would begin production this spring.
“They’re prepping,” Bloys said, adding that showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan J. Condal “have been writing for a long time” and have drafts of all 10 Season 1 episodes “in various stages.”
House of the Dragon is set 300 years before the original Thrones series and will follow Daenerys’ ancestors as House Targaryen begins its historic downfall. Thrones author George R.R. Martin and Condal (Colony) created the prequel; Sapochnik served as director on some of Thrones‘ biggest episodes.
The cast so far includes Paddy Considine (The Outsider) as King Viserys, Sonoya Mizuno (Devs) as Prince Daemons’ unlikely ally Mysaria, Fabien Frankel (The Serpent) as the knight Ser Criston Cole and Eve Best (Nurse Jackie) as Lord Corlys’ wife Princess Rhaenys Velaryon.
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Well Stan doesn’t look like Tommy Lee, but holy shit Lily James looks like Pamela… I wonder if they’re using CGI because LJ doesn’t have such a thin nose, for example…
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Yes, her nose was definitely the first thing I noticed.
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It is Pamela Anderson’s single defining characteristic.
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Danny DeVito, Aubrey Plaza to Star in FXX Animated Horror Sitcom
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Kiefer Sutherland to Star in Espionage Drama Series Ordered at Paramount+
Sutherland will star in the eight-episode series as
James WeirJack Bauer, a private espionage operative in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy, in a world at odds with misinformation, behavioral manipulation, the surveillance state and the interests that control these extraordinary powers.See how much better that would be?
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VENTURE BROS IS GETTING A MOVIE!!!
(2) Jackson Publick on Twitter: “‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’, ‘Venture Bros.’ & ‘Metalocalypse’ Movies In the Works – Deadline https://t.co/RbBtnI6Z32” / Twitter
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First Look: Netflix’s ‘1899’ From the Makers of ‘Dark’
Netflix has unveiled the first image of ‘1899,’ a new mystery series from ‘Dark’ creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, which follows a group of immigrants traveling by ship from Europe to New York at the turn of the last century. The series will be shot entirely on a virtual production stage at Studio Babelsberg using new cutting-edge LED-Volume technology.
Netflix series ‘1899,’ which will be shot on a virtual production stage at Studio Babelsberg.Netflix has unveiled the first image of 1899, the hotly anticipated new mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, creators of global hit Dark.
For their new show, Friese and Odar have gone back to the turn of the 20th century for a story set among European immigrants struggling to reach the “new world.”
The eight-episode series follows the mysterious circumstances around the voyage of an immigrant ship from Europe to New York. The passengers, all of different backgrounds and nationalities, are united in their hopes and dreams for a new century and for a new future abroad. But when they discover a second ship adrift on the open sea that had gone missing for months, their journey takes an unexpected turn and their voyage to the promised land becomes a journey into a nightmare.
Netflix has unveiled the first image of 1899, the hotly anticipated new mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, creators of global hit Dark.
For their new show, Friese and Odar have gone back to the turn of the 20th century for a story set among European immigrants struggling to reach the “new world.”
The eight-episode series follows the mysterious circumstances around the voyage of an immigrant ship from Europe to New York. The passengers, all of different backgrounds and nationalities, are united in their hopes and dreams for a new century and for a new future abroad. But when they discover a second ship adrift on the open sea that had gone missing for months, their journey takes an unexpected turn and their voyage to the promised land becomes a journey into a nightmare.
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Netflix has unveiled the first image of 1899, the hotly anticipated new mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, creators of global hit Dark.
I’m a huge fan of stories set in turn-of-the-century London or New York. I’ll be looking forward to this one.
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Netflix has unveiled the first image of 1899, the hotly anticipated new mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, creators of global hit Dark.
I’m a huge fan of stories set in turn-of-the-century London or New York. I’ll be looking forward to this one.
Did you ever watch The Knick? That was a great series.
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Did you ever watch The Knick? That was a great series.
Another good one is The Alienist, which has had two seasons.
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Did you ever watch The Knick? That was a great series.
Another good one is The Alienist, which has had two seasons.
I really enjoyed both Alienist series.
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AT&T agrees deal to combine WarnerMedia with Discovery
New company aims to ‘compete with world’s largest streamers’ such as Netflix and Disney+
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