Cordkillers 319 - That's: A: Lot: Of: Colons! (w/ Amos)
Price hikes mean a crazy streaming TV landscape. Plus, Hamilton does well on Disney+, Telemundo promotes Peacock, and a new Star Trek animated...comedy?! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Amos.
CordKillers: 319 - That's: A: Lot: Of: Colons!
Recorded: July 6 2020
Guest: Amos
Intro Video
Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy: Seige
Primary Target
Sling TV unveils price guarantee as YouTube TV, FuboTV up costs
- YouTubeTV raised its prices for its streaming cable replacement service from $50 to $65 and FuboTV announced that as of July 1 Warner Media networks like TNT, TBS, CNN etc are no longer available on Fubo TV but ESPN and other Disney networks are coming in August. That makes it odd that Fubo just bumped its package prices up by $5 a month making the base package $60. In response to all this, Sling TV announced all new and existing Sling subscribers as of August 1 will get a one-year price guarantee. If you sign up for three months of service you also get an AirTV 2 DVR and and antenna. Sling service starts at $30 a month. Time to start taking advantage of easy cancellation and do some price shopping folks. I always recommend Suppose.tv as an easy way to see who has the channels you want and for how much.
YouTube TV Hikes Prices by 30%, to $65 per Month With Launch of ViacomCBS Channels
FuboTV Hikes Rates, WarnerMedia Channels Go Dark, ESPN Coming August
How to Watch
Peacock's streaming library adds shows from Showtime, CBS and the CW
- NBC is adding content to its Peacock streaming service from ViacomCBS. TV shows from CBS, Showtime and the CW, along with films from Paramount, will be available on Peacock starting July 15. Peacock is available to most Comcast customers now and launches to all in the US July 15.
What to Watch
Star Trek: Lower Decks to premiere Aug. 6 on CBS All Access
- Former Rick and Morty writer and producer Mike McMahan's Star Trek: Lower Decks will arrive on CBS All Access August 6. The show focus on he support crew of an insignificant Starfleet ship, the USS Cerritos. It's set a year after the Next Generation Era.
Amazon is making a Fallout TV show with Westworld’s creators
- Amazon is developing a show based on Bethesda's game Fallout. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy who helm Westworld will develop Fallout. A statement from Noaln and Joy said: "Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.”
Lady of the Lake takes center stage in Netflix’s Arthurian retelling Cursed
- A trailer is out for Netflix's Cursed, telling the story of Nimue, the lady of the ale in Arthurian legend. The series was in production before the publication of a book called Cursed by Tom Wheeler with illustrations from Frank Miller. Wheeler who wrote for Empire, the Cape and the Lego Ninjago movie developed the TV show with Miller as well. Nimue's mother gives the sword of power (aka Excalibir) to her with instructions to deliver it to Merlin but Nimue ends up wielding it herself to protect the Fey from the Red Paladins. Also Arthur, Gawain, Morgana, most fo the usual crew are involved.
Conan O’Brien To Film TBS Show At Largo, Observing Health & Safety Protocols, Becomes First Late-Night Host To Make Move
- Conan O'Brien will be the first US late night talk show host to move out of the house. O'Brien will start recording his show July 6 at the comedy club Largo at the Coronet in LA. The show will have limited crew and no audience.
‘The Good Fight’: CBS All Access Makes Season 4 Premiere Available For Free As Part Of Emmy FYC Campaign
- Episode 1 of season 4 of The Good Fight from CBS All Access is available to stream for free on YouTube until July 15. Ten elect episodes from all four seasons are also available for free at CBS.com, the CBS app, Amazon Prime Video, and the Apple TV app
'Mad Men' will stream for free on IMDb TV starting July 15th
- And men left Netflix last month and has now landed on Amazon Prime Video in several parts of the world. In the US Mad men will also stream on Amazon's free IMDBTV service starting July 15. StarzPlay is getting it in some parts of the world and AMC will get some rights to air and stream on demand in October.
Apple TV got the rights to an action period movie called emancipation starring Will Smith and directed by Antonie Fuqua. Emancipation is based on the true story fo a slave escaping Louisiana to join the Union Army.
Apple reached a deal with the Maurice Sendak Foundation to create TV series and specials based on Sendak's books including Where the Wild Things Are.
Netflix Closes $50M+ Global Deal For Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’
- And Netflix landed Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7. It tells the story of peaceful protests of the 1968 Democratic Convention they turned violent. The cast includes Watchmen's Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Alex Sharp, Mark Rylance, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella and John Carroll Lynch.
Eyes On
Brian: Terminator and two, Snatch. Hamilton
Tom: Untamed (Netflix)
Amos: Hamilton
On the Lookout: BNA
Front Lines
‘Hamilton’ Drives Up Disney Plus App Downloads 74% Over the Weekend in U.S.
-There's a lot of things Disney + hasn't done but it didn't throw away it's shot to happen in everyone's rooms this weekend. Hamilton premiered on Disney+ causing the app to be downloaded 72.4% more times than the average weekend in the US and up 46.6% worldwide according to Apptopia. Those numbers don't include India or Japan where Disney+ is an add-on to another service.
'Greyhound' star Tom Hanks isn't a fan of the movie's Apple TV+ debut
- In an interview with The Guardian about his movie Greyhound, Tom Hanks expressed regret that it had to be released on Apple TV. He called the change in plans "an absolute heartbreak. I don't mean to make angry my Apple overlords, but there is a difference in picture and sound quality." He also complained that Apple required him to do press interviews in front a blank wall, calling them "the cruel whipmasters at Apple."
Amazon Brings a Prime Video App to the Microsoft Store
- A few app updates. The Amazon prime Video app is now available in the Microsoft Store for windows 10, which supports offline viewing. The Apple TV app for LG now supports Dolby Atmos. And Vizio annocuned the Apple TV app and Airplay 2 support will come to some of its Vizio TVs later this year.
Apple TV app adds Dolby Atmos support for LG smart TVs
Vizio says you'll be able to use the Apple TV app on its TVs this summer
Telemundo YouTube Channel Passes 10M Subscribers, Tops Among U.S. Broadcasters, Giving Marketing Boost To Network And Peacock
- Telemundo has become the most popular YouTube channel of any US-based broadcast network. Each of Telemundo's YouTube channels now have at least one million subscribers and the main channel has 10.6 million. The channels are mostly recaps and short clips and will be encouraging folks to download Peacock to see the full shows. Telemundo makes up about 1/5 of Peacock's content.
Walmart partners with Tribeca to turn 160 store parking lots into drive-in theaters
- Wal-Mart will partner with Tribeca Enterprises to show drive-in movies in 160 Wal-mart parking lots from August through October. Tribeca will select the films and so far the list includes Selena, The Bodyguard, Straight Outta Compton, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future, Mean Girls, Casino Royale and more.
Sony Wins Again At The Independence Day Box Office, This Year With The Reissue Of 1984’s ‘Ghostbusters’
- Sony dominated the box office this weekend with Ghostbusters spending its 8th week at number one. The first seven of course happening in 1984. Ghostbusters brought in $550,000 for the week. Sony also nabbed the number two spot with Jumanji: The Next Level bringing in $300,000. IFC's brand new release Relic brought in $282,600 to take third. Jurassic Park and Jaws fell to numbers 4 and 5.
Dispatches from the Front
"I’m a few weeks behind on both podcasts and TV, so I apologize if this message comes a little late for both the conversation and for Pride month.
I hadn’t watched Love, Simon or Love, Victor until this past weekend. (Did I mention I was a little behind on stuff?) I get that they aren’t revolutionary or mind blowing in any way, but I’d like to appeal to you to just think for a moment about how wonderful it is that we could be bored by a movie or TV show focused on a gay coming-of-age story. Frankly, I’m not bored. I think it’s delightful that a show like this is just another in a lineup of shows about kids growing up and trying to understand themselves. I’m a middle-aged gay white guy who marched the marches and fought the fights to get us here. So let’s not forget how incredible it is that we’re here. And let’s not also take for granted that everyone enjoys these privileges. I live in a lovely private community where another gay family was robbed and harassed this weekend. So it’s not so commonplace or boring everywhere. Hopefully, though, it’s inspiring and enlightening for some.
Love,
- Richard
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