zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/BenjaminCrew1/status/1742412141846557112

Nowadays you wouldn't even see Mr Ed on a surf board before the season finale

zoux posted:

I didn't quite grasp what FAST was until I was looking into the Westworld stuff, I thought it was more like an ad supported tier. But nope you wanna watch two episodes of Westworld you have to be in front of your TV starting from 6:15. And you wanna watch three? gently caress you, see you tomorrow, same bat time.

Edward Mass posted:

The Bear, Succession, and Beef won all the Emmys. This is your Emmy report.

zoux posted:

GreenNight posted:

Just wake me when I can watch the Wrestlemania from the 80s.

muscles like this! posted:

I guess I haven't been following wrestling news, how long did the WWE network last?

BonoMan posted:

Netflix also cancelled The Mothership, the Halle Berry sci-fi film that was already in post-production after "suffering from multiple post-production delays."

Which is weird because... just release it later? But I'm assuming that is just code for "poo poo was real bad and not worth releasing" but that's doubtful.

zoux posted:

jesus christ

The Finn posted:

Still shocked Will Sasso was involved with something so deeply lame

Bright Bart posted:

I was looking for a show that had already finished not to binge but... kind of the opposite. Something I can put on as many times as I want before bed, that will hold my attention and be something I'm at least a little invested in, but that I can turn of half-way through the episode to get back to next time.

Anyways I found Better Things. It was something I had dismissed when it was airing because it looked like one of the many darker family dramadies that came out around the time. Learning that it was a Louis C. K. show didn't help because I didn't actually like Louie. But it's pretty fun.

GreenNight posted:

drat. I liked this show. It went places.

Rappaport posted:

It's a good show all the same

muscles like this! posted:

Don't forget transphobia what with Dave Chappelle just showing up randomly the other day.

The Finn posted:

She's such a stunningly bad actress

Arist posted:

Rousey was in 7, but Carano was in 6!

muscles like this! posted:

IIRC Carano was the Rock's assistant who turns out to be evil?

pentyne posted:

Rousey knew to get out of the UFC after getting humiliated 2x times in a row after being talked about like the Mike Tyson of women's MMA.

I can't remember the specifics but I think it basically boiled down to her being really good at only 1 thing, and having no defense against anything else which top talent Holmes and Nunes exploited. Rousey went from the top of the MMA world to an easy 1 round knockout and retired immediately after the 2nd time in a row she got dropped hard in under 2 rounds.

zoux posted:

I feel bad for Dakota Johnson. I thought Ben and Kate was really funny and she's also really funny when she does SNL. But all her movies are critical disasters so the public probably thinks she's budget brand Shaline Woodley. She should do more comedy, except that they don't make comedy films anymore so she'd have to go back to TV.

Arist posted:

Max: The One to Watch for HBO

Golden Bee posted:

That's some A+ blame-throwing. PR team earning their $.

MarcusSA posted:

3 body problem was good and they made some decent changes from the book to make it more tv showable

bull3964 posted:

Paramount Global kicked their top CEO out and isn't replacing him with a new one, establishing an "Office of the CEO" instead with 3 execs. They are the CEOs of CBS,
Showtime/MTV, and Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon.
https://deadline.com/2024/04/shari-redstone-paramount-memo-george-cheeks-chris-mccarthy-brian-robbins-bob-bakish-exit-1235899097/

Seems like a pretty clear sign that a merger is going to happen really soon.

Oh, and this is hilarious.

https://www.ign.com/articles/paramount-ceo-earnings-mission-impossible-2024

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1786486000618721461

Gah! gently caress! No

bull3964 posted:

Ding ding ding.

The shows are

1) Too Expensive
2) Too Many

This all got flipped on its head when studios became vertically integrated distributors of their own content. At that point, things changed from selling shows to using shows to sell the service. That pushed them to out-compete and out-produce rivals which resulted in massive overreach in content production. It's all about chasing the new. The new thing will bring someone into the service that's not already subscribed. Everyone adopted the Netflix model while still trying to be a traditional business with shareholders that require growth every quarter and other business divisions that don't like having their financials be dragged down by losses.

While all this was happening, the growth of social media, the internet, and short form video meant it was easier than ever for advertisers to do low budget hyper-focused ad campaigns. Why spend millions of dollars with an ad company to try to find out what will catch the attention of 12-14 year old girls and then figure out where to place the ad spots and buy them when they can just strike a few grand deal with someone that does kids toy unboxing videos on YouTube to promote their thing and reach the audience directly with a simple script?

To be clear, the ad apocalypse was coming regardless. The writing was on the wall long before the rise of the streaming factions. The proliferation of content coming out of the 90s and into the early 2000s divided eyeballs too much and devalued ads. This is the reason for the rise in carriage agreement disputes and bundling channels when it comes to cable companies. They were trying to offset the ad revenue drops by getting more direct payment. That was then taken to its full extreme by introducing all the streaming services. Then social media and short form video arrived on the scene and stole even more eyeballs.

At this point, the only real long term solution is massive contraction, but capitalism won't allow that. Number must go up every quarter. The lack of proper social safety nets including lack of universal healthcare means a contractions would also be devastating to those in the industry that aren't multi-million and billionaires. So, we're going to see increasing enshtiification to try to squeeze every penny out of the consumer until we have multiple uncontrolled collapses after the consumer refuses to bear the cost anymore.

I think on the movie side, "The Fall Guy" is a great example of the bloat. You have a movie that cost as much to make as Mad Max: Fury Road, but it's a summer action rom com. This is something that would have been about $20 million to make in the early to mid 90s which adjusted for inflation would be about $50 million today. This it cost nearly 3 times that and then they are bemoaning that it only made $27 million in its opening weekend. It may be a perfectly fine movie, reviews seem to support that, but it's not something that's going to make back a $130 million budget easily in today's market and they should have known that going in. "The Lost City" is a similar type of movie and had HALF the budget and went on to make $190 million which would be barely (or possibly not) enough to break even for "The Fall Guy" after marketing budget.

CeeJee posted:

How much of that was spent paying the crew who were waiting for Johnson to show up for filming?