Cordkillers 329 - Don't Bury Gramps Yet! (w/ Lamarr Wilson)
CBS All Access's new name revealed! Plus, Peacock finally comes to Roku, new Mandalorian trailer, and DC Universe gets out of the video business. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Lamarr Wilson.
CordKillers: 329 - Don't Bury Gramps Yet!
Recorded: September 21 2020
Guest: Lamarr Wilson
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ViacomCBS Confirms Paramount+ As New Streaming Name For CBS All Access
- ViacomCBS announced that it will change the name of its CBS All Access streaming service to Paramount Plus in early 2021. ViacomCBS also announced new original programming coming to the series including series not he making of the movie The Godfather and a spy show from Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan.
‘The Godfather’ Series, Taylor Sheridan Spy Drama Lead Paramount+Slate
How to Watch
Roku and Comcast reach agreement to carry Peacock on Roku
- An app distribution agreement between Roku and NBC Universal expired at the end of August. Roku offered to grant an extension to allow NBC's existing apps to continue to operate under the old terms while the two companies negotiate on the new Peacock service. Thursday, NBCUniversal notified Roku that it would not take advantage of the extensions and would pull its TV Everywhere apps this weekend. Friday Comcast and Roku came to an agreement.
What to Watch
The Mandalorian trailer is out. It describes battles between the Mandalorian and “an orderer of sorcerers known as Jedi.” Season 2 is set for October 30.
A new trailer for WandaVision showed during the Emmys. Disney still hasn't set a date for the premiere just teasing it as "coming soon”
CBS Brings Back Sunday Night Movies To Fill Gap Until Scripted Dramas Return, Moves ‘Big Brother’ To Monday
- CBS Sunday Night Movies will return October 4 for six installments with movies from Paramount. Big Brother loves to Monday. Sunday Night at the Movies returned in the spring to fill covid holes. It's basically returning for the same reason in the fall. Scripted series are targeting a November return. The movies will be Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Old School and Clueless followed by the Halloween-timed Scream. The list also includes Star Trek Beyond and Coming to America.
‘Stumptown’ Canceled at ABC Despite Season 2 Renewal Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
- ABC canceled Stumptown starring Cobie Smulders. It had already been renewed but became a victim of reassessment because of Covid. Netflix previously pulled the plug on both “The Society” and “I Am Not Okay With This” back in August, while the truTV series “I’m Sorry” was also scrapped despite a renewal. Amazon pulled the plug on its “Cortes y Moctezuma” miniseries two weeks ago as production was unable to resume due to COVID-19.
DC Universe Scraps Original Programming, New Seasons of ‘Titans’ and ‘Harley Quinn’ Head to HBO Max
- DC Universe will get out of the original content business. Titans and Harley Quinn will move to HBO Max along with Doom Patrol. Harley Quinn was renewed for a third season. DC Universe will rebrand as DC Universe Infinite and focus exclusively to be a fan community and digital comics hub beginning Jan. 21, 2021.
‘Harley Quinn’ Renewed For Season 3 At HBO Max As DC Universe Transitions Out Of Scripted Originals
CBS all Access soon to be Paramount Plus will adapt the True Crime podcast Happy Face into a series.
HBO Max renewed Raised by Wolves for season 2.
Disney has delayed the premiere of Falcon and The Winter Solider to sometime in 2021.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance won an emmy. And Netflix will not bring it back after its one season.
Eyes On
Brian: Bill and Ted Face the Music
Tom: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Lamarr: Married with Children on Hulu (extended editions?), Lost in Space (Netflix), The Captain's Summit
On the Lookout: Long Way Up
Front Lines
Down Stream: Netflix, Apple, Hulu Combine For Just 4 Emmy Wins Sunday As HBO Dominates
- The CBC/PopTV show Schitts Creek won most of the Emmys. But Quibi won two for “#FreeRayshawn,” a police drama from from executive producer Antoine Fuqua: Laurence Fishburne and Jasmine Cephas Jones won the acting awards in the Emmys short-form category. HBO dominated with 30 wins, 11 in the Prime Time Emmys telecast. Netflix ended with 21 wins and Schitt's Creek's Eugene Levy thanked Netflix in part since carrying old episodes sparked interest in the series. Netflix won a primetime Emmy for Julia Garner in Ozark and Maria Scghrader Directing Unorthodox. Apple TV + won for Billy Cruddup's role in The Morning Show. Hulu got a win for Uzo Aduba's role in the FX on Hulu show Mrs. America. Disney+ didn't get any.
HBO & ‘Watchmen’ Top Lists Of Overall Emmy Wins By Network & Program
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi Is Looking to Sell Itself, Among Other Possible Options
- Ben Mullin from the Wall Street Journal tweeted Monday "Quibi, the streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is exploring strategic options including a possible sale, sources say. Story coming to wsj dot com." Other options besides a sale would include trying to raising more funding or launching an IPO.
Pandemic accelerated cord cutting, making 2020 the worst-ever year for pay TV
- New research from eMarketer estimates more than 6 million US households will drop pay TV this year bringing the total number of cord-cutter households to 31.2 million. They estimate that number will reach 46.6 million by 2024. Pay TV sits at 77.6 million households down 7.5% on the year, its biggest drop ever.
Tubi Hits New Record At 33M Monthly Users, Debuts Spanish-Language Offering
- Tubi announced it now has 33 million monthly active users in August, up 65% over 2019. The company also announced the launch of Tubi en Español, a Spanish-language offering within the Tubi app, on Roku devices in the U.S.
Comcast reported Peacock signups rose 50% over the last six weeks to 15 million. It's also the second most popular app on Comcast's Xfinity Flex boxes behind Netflix.
‘She-Hulk’ Disney Plus Series Casts Tatiana Maslany in Lead Role
- Disney Plus has cast Tatiana Maslany as She-Hulk in its upcoming series. She-hulk will tell the story of Jennifer Walters, cousin of Bruce Banner, who inherits his Hulk powers after she receives a blood transfusion from him.
Dispatches from the Front
"Andrew Bradley
You guys didn’t mention the step top box that could act as a plex server and player. The glorious but often over looked Nvidea Shield TV! The best set top box of all time. It’s the only box that will direct play all your Blu-ray’s and UHDs. You don’t need to transcode into a lower quality.
- Andrew
I will add my love for plex. I have been a plexpass subscriber for years. I do run it on a pc, with many drives, rather than a nas. One feature you missed talking about is that it will get special features
for movies, as well as subtitles, posters, ect. Also cool is the option to play trailers before your movie, either general trailers, or ones for movies you already have in plex. Keep up the good work!
- Jeremy
Hi Guys,
In the past movies on occasion would use the excuse of a bad scene or movie that they were rushed and had to get the movie out the door and into the theaters.... Now with the Pandemic and theaters close for months can we expect perfection from the films coming out over the next year. They clearly can't use that excuse anymore. There are lots of films that are "in the can" just sitting there. I would like to hear your thoughts.
Also with screenwriters (Film, show, and commercial) laid off for months can we expect great original stories in films and shows of the next few years? If a writer had all the time in the world to write their masterpiece, will they do it?
Thanks for the great show and keep it up.
- Dean