I completely understand why, but I thought that it was too long.
As others said elsewhere, some of the seasons (2-4 imo) were two or three episodes too long.
1>2>3>4
I completely understand why, but I thought that it was too long.
As others said elsewhere, some of the seasons (2-4 imo) were two or three episodes too long.
1>2>3>4
Yeah
The last three felt drawn out though, to make that length. I didn't feel that about the first, myself.
I think the last one felt long, only because it never really went anywhere. S3 (the meat season) just got super weird which was interesting.
S1 and 2 were the best for sure.
I'm obsessed! Low-key trying to plan a trip to Greece with a friend, just so we can go to the Beach Club.Anyone watching Lohan Beach Club? 👀
It's one of my guilty pleasures of 2019 already
I'm obsessed! Low-key trying to plan a trip to Greece with a friend, just so we can go to the Beach Club.
Mike, Jonitta, and Sara <3
Lots more casting news and additional info on the TNT/Ridley Scott project here.
Apple has green lit a 10 episode season of an untitled science fiction series created and co-written by Simon Kinberg and David Weil.
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Specifics are under wraps for right now, but sources said this is a large large budget, ambitious, character driven genre show that will go into production this summer. They are starting casting now and will be shooting globally.
It's the shitty War of the Worlds show I read a while back. Real garbage and it boggles my mind why they're even doing it considering other War of the Worlds series are also happening.
I wonder if it's still somehow rated G as well. Was there any development on Apple's rumored "nothing even slightly controversial in shows" stance?It's the shitty War of the Worlds show I read a while back. Real garbage and it boggles my mind why they're even doing it considering other War of the Worlds series are also happening.
I would say it's more PG than G. Maybe PG-13 depending on how they depict a specific scene. I also think there will definitely be a few things in there that are "controversial" if nothing changes from the scripts. But frankly, it's just not a good project in any sense. My immediate reaction is you wouldn't even know this was War of the Worlds if it wasn't the title... after two episodes (and probably many more). It's very slow burn and character focused, but the characters are all uninteresting and cliched things we've seen a million times before.I wonder if it's still somehow rated G as well. Was there any development on Apple's rumored "nothing even slightly controversial in shows" stance?
Hastings also disclosed viewer numbers for its Spanish original Elite (20 million), its Turkish-original series, Protector (10 million) and You (40 million).
No third party measures streaming audiences globally as Nielsen does in the U.S. and Netflix zealously guards its data. But the streaming giant volunteered that You and Sex Education have each been seen by more than 40 million households in their initial weeks. Spanish series Elite has been seen by more than 20 million households, the company said.
Netflix considers an episode as "viewed" if at least one episode has been watched at least 70% of the way through.
thats good news for Sex Education then, it seems to be quite good from most people I've talked to.
Netflix numbers would be Global I imagine, and Nielsen / whatever is just US no?
I'm still not buying it. Only 4 tv episodes in history have ever been watched by more than 40 million people. Even factoring in international views, it still seems suspect.
Netflix's definition of what constitutes a viewer varies for movies and TV shows. With films, the company counts anyone completing 70 percent of a film as a viewer. For TV shows, it's 70 percent of a single episode, not an entire season. So while the movie number is pretty good at gauging whether folks watched a title, the TV number is best understood as a reflection of whether a show is getting sampled vs. being enthusiastically consumed. (In the linear TV world, it's common for shows to get a very big audience for a premiere and then decline 30 or 40 percent over the course of a full season, which is why networks tend to gauge a show's success on its season average.) Plus, Netflix ended 2018 with 148 million subscribers around the world, giving it a much bigger potential audience than an American network such as, say, Lifetime. (Top cable networks are seen in about 90 million homes.) This is not to suggest 40 million isn't impressive. It's just that comparing You's audience on Lifetime vs. You's audience on Netflix isn't apples vs. apples.
It's also worth remembering these numbers in some ways undercount Netflix's actual audience. The stats cited above refer to the number of subscriber accounts which have watched these projects, not actual viewers. If three people got together to watch Bird Box on one TV set, Netflix tallies that as one "view" and not three. (Nielsen, by contrast, counts both TV homes and total viewers, with the latter stat now the most commonly cited by networks and reporters.) It's quite likely the actual number of people around the world who've watched Bird Box is approaching 100 million, assuming Netflix's data is accurate.
And that's the last thing to keep in mind about these numbers: Netflix's data isn't independently audited by outside companies. However, Nielsen and companies such as Parrot Analytics do issue reports which offer a snapshot of how Netflix content is being consumed, and their findings have often tracked with what little data Netflix has released. And unlike last month's Bird Box tweet, Netflix's statements today were released as part of a shareholder letter — putting them under the jurisdiction of Security and Exchange Commission rules, which strictly prohibit false and misleading statements by companies in official public communications.
Wasn't good.
(also, it's strange how everyone is rushing to say stuff like "Oh, so we're going to just believe their self reported numbers now?!" when you almost never see that kind of skepticism towards HBO, Showtime, etc. when they report the cumulative #'s from their streaming services)
Not saying that we should take these numbers as gospel, but Netflix did qualify them a bit (i.e. having watched at least 70% of one episode) and using your own social sphere as a statistical metric is really bad (i.e. self-selection bias).I'm seriously starting to think that Netflix is bullshitting and they actually just count the episode autoplaying if you idle on the menu as "watched". I legit only know one person who's actually seen Sex Education and out of my entire social media umbrella most people are more interested in making jokes about Bird Box than have actually seen it.
Not saying that we should take these numbers as gospel, but Netflix did qualify them a bit (i.e. having watched at least 70% of one episode) and using your own social sphere as a statistical metric is really bad (i.e. self-selection bias).
And Sex Education is definitely a hit for them, even the thread here on era (which isn't their primary demographic) is reasonably popular.
From their Q4 numbers (via Deadline):Oh, of course. The personal social sphere is only a very small slice of reality, but at the same time, Netflix's numbers seem to keep going up despite the fact that the audience isn't actually getting any bigger. That's the part that's confusing.
They are still adding subscribes in a fairly mind blowing manner.Total paid subscribers increased by 8.8 million to reach 139.26 million worldwide, ahead of guidance by more than 1 million. U.S. subscriber levels ticked up 1.5 million to 58.5 million, in line with forecasts.
From their Q4 numbers (via Deadline):
They are still adding subscribes in a fairly mind blowing manner.
I'm seriously starting to think that Netflix is bullshitting and they actually just count the episode autoplaying if you idle on the menu as "watched". I legit only know one person who's actually seen Sex Education and out of my entire social media umbrella most people are more interested in making jokes about Bird Box than have actually seen it.
Unsolved Mysteries is back after Netflix revived the long-running true crime and paranormal franchise.
The series, which was hosted by Robert Stack and ran for over 500 episodes between 1987 and 2010, is being refreshed by Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and his company 21 Laps Entertainment and Netflix.
I hear that Levy is overseeing the revamp in association with Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, the original production company run by the show's creators John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer. The latter will show run the series with Cosgrove, Levy and Josh Barry as exec producers. Robert Wise is co-exec producer and showrunner with Dunn Meurer.
The 12-part show will use re-enactments in a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries and unsolved crimes, lost love, cases involving missing persons and unexplained paranormal events. Each episode will focus on one mystery. In the original series, actors played the victims, criminals and witnesses but family members and police were regularly interviewed.
Right. But if they have 58.5 million subscribers, how can they say their movies got watched by 80 million households? Or is this a tacit admission that they know people are sharing their accounts to a staggering degree and they don't care?
EDIT: Worldwide numbers. I'm dumb. Carry on.
Not saying that we should take these numbers as gospel, but Netflix did qualify them a bit (i.e. having watched at least 70% of one episode) and using your own social sphere as a statistical metric is really bad (i.e. self-selection bias).
And Sex Education is definitely a hit for them, even the thread here on era (which isn't their primary demographic) is reasonably popular.
There's many people who like it? where lmao it felt like it went unnoticed.Just heard this news. I'm seriously baffled to see so many people liked it. It just came across as obnoxious "HUR HUR STEREOTYPES" humor to me.
No news on that either way. Everyone involved is pretty busy, so even if Amazon did want more, we might be waiting for a while.btw did amazon's forever get renewed? now that show alongside showtime's kidding were 2018's gems imo.
Darn... didn't hear that they were still looking for another studio, so already had the idea that it was permanent :/ Too bad....
Sigh, I knew this was coming so I can't really be mad. All I have to say is that I will personally stab every single one of you miserable bastards who didn't watch this.
Just heard this news. I'm seriously baffled to see so many people liked it. It just came across as obnoxious "HUR HUR STEREOTYPES" humor to me.
I'm sad the show didn't even get a title send off.I too am sad. it was one of the funniest shows I can remember watching in recent times. yes there was a lot of small town jokes but there was some clever writing and puns along the way :'(