Glad to see Outlander up there. I want that show to do very well and continue forever.
CBS isn't available On Demand as far as I know. At least, it's not on AT&T and wasn't when I had Comcast.
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Glad to see Outlander up there. I want that show to do very well and continue forever.
CBS isn't available On Demand as far as I know. At least, it's not on AT&T and wasn't when I had Comcast.
Shows how much I know. Wonder why. Trying to get people on All Access?
That's what I had to do when NFL ran late and so my DVR didn't work.
Surprised its not increasing explosively considering the number of new services and platforms we got this year.
Note that streaming service shows are up while basic cable shows are down. There's been some consolidation as a few of the cable outlets bowed out of original programming this year.
Also, the fine print notes that this doesn't include non-English language or English dubbed shows.
But it does seem to include non-English shows made by English productions (at least in the case of HBO's My Brilliant Friend being included, according to a tweet by FX's John Solberg).
Ah, interesting. I've only seen the slides and I'm working off of those. I think there's a full report floating around somewhere.
Haven't been able to find the full report yet, unfortunately. But it's super fascinating every year how pay cable is the smallest sliver of content but gets so much buzz. Good ratio of acclaim in those numbers!
Just one step closer to All Access' official rebranding to Trekflix.
Game of Thrones is my favorite show currently airing, but I can't exactly act surprised by its success. I'm happy to see so much Westworld on there, though, considering so many fans disliked the 2018 season but I liked it just fine.
Needs more The Expanse, but whatevs. Amazon has saved the best sci-fi show of the 2010s; life remains worth living.
LOL. It's certainly up there.
I have heard that after Homecoming (Julia Roberts show, not Spidey) and The Romanoffs failed to set the world of social media alight or prompt any fevered discussions around the watercooler (that's still a thing?), Amazon are now telling producers and anyone else coming in to pitch that they are no longer interested in "small shows".
Presumably this means Amazon are now only interested in 'big swings' as Bezos searches for the three or four GOT sized hits he thinks he needs to win the streaming wars. Even with Jennifer Salke in charge I believe there's still a feeling that they haven't fully transitioned out of the baffling Roy Price regime yet and that Prime is still in a rebuilding mode.
Given that Amazon is prepping to become a one stop shop for everything Lord of The Ring on television, just as CBS Access is going to the home of everything Trek, it'll be interesting to see just how many chances Prime will be willing to take on new material moving forward with this 'AAA' strategy.
Will Bezos let Prime be a little more than a on stop shop for well known IPs like Disney+ or WarnerMedia's platform or could they still try and eek out something like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, every once and a while?
Presumably this means Amazon are now only interested in 'big swings' as Bezos searches for the three or four GOT sized hits he thinks he needs to win the streaming wars. Even with Jennifer Salke in charge I believe there's still a feeling that they haven't fully transitioned out of the baffling Roy Price regime yet and that Prime is still in a rebuilding mode.
Given that Amazon is prepping to become a one stop shop for everything Lord of The Ring on television, just as CBS Access is going to the home of everything Trek, it'll be interesting to see just how many chances Prime will be willing to take on new material moving forward with this 'AAA' strategy.
Will Bezos let Prime be a little more than a on stop shop for well known IPs like Disney+ or WarnerMedia's platform or could they still try and eek out something like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, every once and a while?
I think Amazon's strategy is short-sighted. The whole reason they hired Salke is because she was able to spot hits from "small shows", e.g. "This is Us." While its good they're throwing money, hand over fist, at big budget "swings", by ignoring the entire market of small shows, you're basically ceding that ground to Netflix, FX, and Disney. Yes, "GoT" is the big-budget behemoth for HBO, but there's also "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Girls" and alternative programming that allows for more diversity in content. By chasing the GoT dragon, you let Netflix corner the market on unique & creative dramas. For every "The End of the Fucking World", there's a "Gypsy". For every "Ozark", there was a "Seven Seconds." By throwing your hands up at the failure of two Price-era shows, you've done this:
Though, I can understand why, financially, it makes sense to stop making "small shows". Prime is like a hobby for Amazon: since it'll never compete with media companies directly, it doesn't have to worry about things like content libraries since they won't really affect the bottom line. However, for Prime Video itself, right now, it doesn't have the backlog to withstand something like Disney, Time Warner, NBCUniversal et al. pulling their backlog for their own proprietary services. It needs small shows to prepare for the time that comes.
Amazon has enough money to not only compete with HBO on the big-budget TV show front but also enough to compete with the FXes and Netflixes of the world. And if it wants to get serious about streaming domination, it needs to realize how important small shows can be towards filling out a depleting catalog.
Though, I can understand why, financially, it makes sense to stop making "small shows". Prime is like a hobby for Amazon: since it'll never compete with media companies directly, it doesn't have to worry about things like content libraries since they won't really affect the bottom line. However, for Prime Video itself, right now, it doesn't have the backlog to withstand something like Disney, Time Warner, NBCUniversal et al. pulling their backlog for their own proprietary services. It needs small shows to prepare for the time that comes.
Amazon has enough money to not only compete with HBO on the big-budget TV show front but also enough to compete with the FXes and Netflixes of the world. And if it wants to get serious about streaming domination, it needs to realize how important small shows can be towards filling out a depleting catalog.
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Meh. Small shows will always find a way. Plus, seeing as how Amazon is one of the very few places that can actually afford all these mega budget sci-fi/fantasy series, I say bring it on.
Agreed. Plus I'm just so thrilled that The Romanoffs flopped.
Highly unlikely, especially LOTR on brand name alone. But even if they do, at least they will have taken big swings and given us some stuff that is of a level (hopefully) we have either never or rarely seen before in a series.
Amazon will launch a couple of big shows, fail to set the world alight and will give up in a couple of years.
Good that this became public. She deserves better.
I hate clickbaity titles, I got excited about Alias coming back. :/
The strategy backfired, wow. Then again people have normalized harassment so have grown blind to it.
Glad she got justice, hopefully it didnt ruin her career.
I hope that strategy fails for Amazon. Their best shows (to me) were their smaller ones. I'll miss Mozart and Red Oaks.
Thursday night's ratings. The schedule should show that there was a rerun of The Good Place last night, so pretend there's an "R" next to it:
I agree with that. They have a mountain of shows incoming, by mid-next year they should start having a lot of them starting to arrive. Some of them will definitely miss, but Amazon seems in it to stay for the long haul.
Now this is awesome.
It's good, but the final two episodes didn't work as well as the preceding 8.
I enjoyed it, and the length made for a quick binge. It definitely has Esmail's touch, but it never gets as abstract as Mr Robot.
Ok thanks. Sounds like it's at least worth a shot
I'm likely stronger about it than others will be, but I loved it! It's very suspenseful, thoughtful, and full of incredible performances and amazing shots. It's a really well-told season, and half hour episodes, which is always welcome!
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Kevin Reilly Named Head Of Content & Strategy For WarnerMedia's New Streaming Service
So maybe in the near future we'll get actual info on what the WarnerOTT actually is. And it does seem that the explanation for the chaotic messaging around the service that made it seem they were making it up as they went along... is that they were making it up as they went along.
TOLDJA!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/20...l-at-cbs-try-120m.66056/page-57#post-15363639
I'm slightly surprised that Reilly is keeping his position as head of TNT/tbs as well as this new streaming platform. I'm assuming that this means WarnerMedia's SVOD platform will take the 'second window' on all TNT and tbs' original content so I suppose that it makes sense that they have someone able to co-ordinate all that into one cohesive product.
I had heard that an Adult Swim app (much like Boomerang, a mix of original content and library) was in the offing but I wouldn't be surprised if that is now intended to become part of this new platform's higher tier. All in all WarnerMedia have plenty of big brands that they can utilise to make this new platform work (Adult Swim as mentioned and a dedicated Cartoon Network app too to name but two) but they have to hit the ground running as they won't have the luxury afforded to a Hulu or Amazon Prime and get a few years to find their feet.
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