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Bang Rodgeman just revealed on Dumbbells that he and Sean Clements have a new podcast coming soon. A parody of the Hollywood Masterclass type shows.
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http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/seeso-nbc-comedy-streaming-service-in-question.html Seeso seems to be in trouble tl;dr: A niche start-up type company run under the umbrella of an enormous multi-national multi-billion corporation that ends things if they're not immediately successful in 3 months might be shuttered in the immediate future. Honestly, I don't get why NBCUniversal didn't just replace the Esquire channel with Seeso when they shuttered. This board is 100% people who are the targeted audience of Seeso but how many of us actually subscribed after our 1 month codes expired? Us dang millennials don't want to add another monthly charge to our bills when we already have Netflix and Spotify and etc. WerthersWay fucked around with this message at 18:42 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 18:39
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There was some stuff on there I wanted to watch but it's US only
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May 3, 2017 18:45
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I signed up for SeeSo to watch the MBMBaM series (Which was very good) but I have barely watched anything else on it - primarily because it is a really lousy service. The video quality seems kind of lossy, and the audio is abysmal. A shame that NBCU is going to shutter it, though.
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May 3, 2017 19:22
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It kind of reminds me of the reports I heard from Howl users. Content is good, service is bad, app is sort of difficult to navigate. I guess maybe I'm too used to Netflix and Hulu's streamlining, but Seeso's menu system always seemed a bit obtuse for me. So far, I've only used it to watch MBMBaM and Harmonquest, so I'll probably have to get around to watching Bajillion soon before the site goes away.
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May 3, 2017 19:26
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Maybe if they'd accepted my foreign money and let me watch Harmonquest and MBMBaM internationally they'd be in better shape. 
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May 3, 2017 19:29
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To be fair to them, I'm not sure how much of that is in their hands. They probably have the right to distribute their own content however they see fit, but because it had things like Kids in the Hall and Monty Python on it, they probably really had their hands tied as to what regions they could be available in without having different sites dedicated to different regions. Which why would they if they didn't know if it would succeed? e: Not saying it's necessarily right, just that they're not necessarily purposefully being dicks.
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May 3, 2017 19:41
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If the new season of Bajillion Dollar Properties doesn't get released because of this I'll be really sad  . Tim Baltz's series Shrink was really good too, that last episode  .
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May 3, 2017 20:06
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I signed up for seeso, added the app to my amazon fire tv thing, watched one episode of mbmbam, then after that nothing else would load on their stupid app. Not even after reinstalling
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May 3, 2017 20:16
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I watch and still sub to Seeso but only on my Fire TV. Shrink, Bajillion, My Brother, Harmonquest. I watched Cyanide and it was kinda bad. Take My Wife is in the que.
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May 3, 2017 20:28
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/seeso-nbc-comedy-streaming-service-in-question.html I paid for it even though their website and app sucked and I couldn't stream without stuttering. I did have to cancel and sign up through amazon to get it to work properly... I rarely watch anything on it so I probably should cancel it while I wait for the next season of Harmonquest. The rest of the content I've either already seen or it doesn't interest me, UCB show was hit or miss probably better live, MBMBaM was alright and I thought Shrink was good too but I'm a real Baltz-head.
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May 3, 2017 20:36
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Riptor posted:I signed up for seeso, added the app to my amazon fire tv thing, watched one episode of mbmbam, then after that nothing else would load on their stupid app. Not even after reinstalling The app is very bad, and the browser player isn't really much better. It took me way longer to get through Harmonquest than it should've because it just wouldn't play a few episodes when I tried the first time. I'd come back a few hours later to try again, and get an episode or 2 in before it decided to stop working again.
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I just use SeeSo on the Amazon prime app so it works great for me there. I'd be sad if it goes away though because I've been going through all the kids in the hall. I loved Harmon quest, and Bajillion is good too.
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Shrink is really good and I hope it would somehow find a home elsewhere if Seeso folded It really doesn't seem out of line with normal Amazon original programming
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I would cancel Netflix and get Seeso but its only available in the US. SUck my dick seeso!!
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Howl and Seeso being equivalent products is extremely accurate. However, Howl would have been a lot easier to avert the crisis by just making it a platform-agnostic premium stream service or spending more time on the app and hiring a company with a decent UX designer. Streaming video is way harder, to the point where very very few companies do it well. Hell, HBO Go is horrible, and that not only has HBO behind it but also Major League Baseball's technology, which I've heard is best in class. But that doesn't stop HBO Go from constantly crashing and restarting, having the worst Chromecast support I've ever seen across both desktop and mobile, having problems with second monitors on desktop, and being generally super buggy and difficult to navigate. That being said, I subscribed to both Howl and Seeso because I wanted the content. But then I was unemployed for a stretch and unsubscribed from all my streaming services. Out of all of them, Netflix and Spotify are the only ones I've bothered resubscribing to (the former only for MST3K). However, I did start Stitcher Premium, but only to check out new live eps and Gourley & Lund's new companion shows. Never going back to Seeso. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 01:06 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 01:03
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A streaming service devoted to only one genre is always going to be a hard sell. Does anybody remember the name of that horror-only streaming service that was advertised on Earwolf? I'm curious as to how successful it was.
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May 4, 2017 01:53
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No, but it's probably the one I signed up to for a minute. Though there are like 5 horror- streaming services. Thanks, market fragmentation! Way to take a good thing and make it almost as bad as cable!
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May 4, 2017 02:13
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Anyone watched that UCB show on there, I really want to watch it because I enjoy that episode they put out on youtube. The big grande sketch was really good.
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:A streaming service devoted to only one genre is always going to be a hard sell. Does anybody remember the name of that horror-only streaming service that was advertised on Earwolf? I'm curious as to how successful it was. Shudder? No idea but boy what a dumb name
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Snooze Cruise posted:Anyone watched that UCB show on there, I really want to watch it because I enjoy that episode they put out on youtube. I watched a couple with Earwolf favs. Good. Not an essential must-watch but it was a good time and worth your attention. More throwaway than any classic sketch show, but more consistent and funnier than any individual SNL episode. Very much feels like a stage show, because it is. It's really fun for what it is but I wish they'd've done a bit more with it, maybe like a slightly less obnoxiously overedited The Meltdown.
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May 4, 2017 04:58
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:A streaming service devoted to only one genre is always going to be a hard sell. Does anybody remember the name of that horror-only streaming service that was advertised on Earwolf? I'm curious as to how successful it was. Shudder is still around and as far as I know is doing fine. It's probably easier for them though because they're really just getting content to show rather than creating content.
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May 4, 2017 14:40
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Snooze Cruise posted:Anyone watched that UCB show on there, I really want to watch it because I enjoy that episode they put out on youtube. It is super uneven, I'd only watch it if you've got a comedy nerd compulsion, or you have it on as background while you're doing something else. But it does have Donny Gary, Drew Tarver's breakout character.
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UCB-Adjacent Comedy Thread news: The Chris Gethard Show is moving to TruTV for 16 episodes this summer, airing live with audience call-ins and stuff just like the public access days. TruTV.... owns??
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TruTV has been trying to position itself as a challenger to Comedy Central's dominance in the cable market for a while now, but they're very gradually realizing they can't just run Impractical Jokers for 18 hours a day.
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The Gethard Show announcement is great. The show really lost a lot when it killed the live aspect - even though it was amazing to be able to watch the tapings via YouTube and watch them do multiple takes and deal with on-set disasters, warm up the crowd, etc. The level of transparency was highly refreshing and exciting, but the show itself felt a little stifled. Season 2 was better about that, but still couldn't touch the MNN years. Though is TruTV available anywhere outside of a cable package? I could see them scooping up a bunch of the Seeso shows if they really wanted to compete with CC. Would be p neat ManoliIsFat posted:It is super uneven Is there a single sketch show that isn't? Monty Python and Mr. Show are super uneven. Not that it's in their league.
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TBS, which is also owned by Turner like TruTV, is more of a competitor to Comedy Central. Except for Those Who Can't, TruTV is almost entirely low-budget unscripted shows hosted by comedians while TBS has this crazy good block of single-cam comedies + Conan and Sam Bee.
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:TBS, which is also owned by Turner like TruTV, is more of a competitor to Comedy Central. Except for Those Who Can't, TruTV is almost entirely low-budget unscripted shows hosted by comedians while TBS has this crazy good block of single-cam comedies + Conan and Sam Bee. It's kind of impressive how many good shows TBS suddenly started putting out in the last year or two.
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feedmyleg posted:Is there a single sketch show that isn't? Monty Python and Mr. Show are super uneven. Not that it's in their league.
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Chairman Capone posted:It's kind of impressive how many good shows TBS suddenly started putting out in the last year or two. All because of Kevin Reilly. He established modern day FX, he saved The Office and 30 Rock while at NBC, he got fired at FOX for having the balls to kill pilot season for a year, and now at head of Turner he's successfully rebranded TruTV, TBS, and TNT ~and~ backed it up with great programming.
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May 4, 2017 20:25
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Every comic in LA wants to sell to Tru. It's creator focused and it comes across. (Unless you're trying to sell scripted, but duh.)
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May 4, 2017 21:14
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Lol at Gabrus doing reps in between Heroes of the Storm deaths.
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UP AND ADAM posted:Lol at Gabrus doing reps in between Heroes of the Storm deaths. I did think that whole episode of H&M was sweet. Also I went down a wormhole and found a pic of Gabrus as Dr Fran N Furter and me-ow.
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Wonder what happened with Fusion then.
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feedmyleg posted:The Gethard Show announcement is great. The show really lost a lot when it killed the live aspect - even though it was amazing to be able to watch the tapings via YouTube and watch them do multiple takes and deal with on-set disasters, warm up the crowd, etc. The level of transparency was highly refreshing and exciting, but the show itself felt a little stifled. Season 2 was better about that, but still couldn't touch the MNN years. Though is TruTV available anywhere outside of a cable package? I mean not that you're wrong about Gethard, but the cash or trash episode is one of the funniest pieces of tv I've ever seen.
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piratepilates posted:Wonder what happened with Fusion then. They got bought by Univision around the same time as Gawker, laid off a bunch of staff, and is now mostly a news channel for millennials now.
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The_Rob posted:I mean not that you're wrong about Gethard, but the cash or trash episode is one of the funniest pieces of tv I've ever seen. Anyone who's remotely into CBB/Earwolf and hasn't seen that episode is really doing themselves a disservice. It's amazing.
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Sinteres posted:Anyone who's remotely into CBB/Earwolf and hasn't seen that episode is really doing themselves a disservice. It's amazing. Did you mean "One Man's Trash..."? E: That's the name of the episode. I forgot about the Cash or trash side project. E2: I have to say, they totally knew beforehand. RoyKeen fucked around with this message at 15:02 on May 7, 2017 |
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The Ape of Naples posted:E2: I have to say, they totally knew beforehand. They did not. What happened is that Gethard misheard misheard "a soiled Spider-Man suit, full body" as "a soiled Spider-Man suit, worn by Paul Giamatti. It was a weird kind of "don't think of an elephant" mixup - he heard what he was expecting not to hear, even though it wasn't said.
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feedmyleg posted:They did not. But Paul Scheer was the one who added the extra part. Also later on when Paul reads through the guesses he totally tries to play it cool on the closest guess and punctuate the next guess to throw it off.
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