Cordkillers 350 - The G5 Pony Summit
New Disney+ shows and dates, Paramount+ pricing and content details, and a Frogger...game show...on Peacock? All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Naaim Siddiqi.
CordKillers: 350 - The G5 Pony Summit
Recorded: March 1 2021
Guest: Naaim Siddiqi
Intro Video
Operation Varsity Blue
Primary Target
Disney+ Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ And ‘Loki”
Marvel series 'Loki' will premiere on Disney+ on June 11th
‘WandaVision’ Season 2 Not Planned Yet; Elizabeth Olsen Will Head To ‘Doctor Strange 2’
Why ‘Falcon & The Winter Soldier’ Is Only 6 Episodes Long
‘Deadpool 3’ Update Provided During Marvel Kevin Feige TCA
Marvel's Kevin Feige Hints At Multiple Seasons for Disney Plus Series
- During a presentation to the Television Critics Association Disney made lots of announcements.
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch premieres May 4 on D+
- Loki premieres on D+ June 11
- Black Widow still set for theaters May 7th
- Marvel's Kevin Feige had a few things to say himself.
- Regarding season 2 of WandaVision. "I’ve been at Marvel too long to say a definite ‘No’ to anything as far as a second season of WandaVision. Lizzie Olsen will go from WandaVision to the Doctor Strange film,” said the Marvel Boss. He explained that series and films are mapped together so sometimes they go from series to film and back to series.
- He explained that Falcon and the Winter Soldier was pegged at 6 episodes because of cost.
- In a longer comment about why they keep most Marvel content PG-13, he confirmed they have started working on Deadpool.
How to Watch
Paramount+ will cost $5 per month with ads, or $10 without
- ViacomCBS' CBS All Access, which will rebrand as Paramount+ on March 4 in the US, Latin America and Canada, announced pricing for the new streaming service will change this summer. The add-free tier will stay at $10. The ad-supported tier will drop by a dollar to $5/month starting in June and while it will include NFL games it will not include local TV live streams. Although if you are subscribed at $5.99 and don't cancel you won't lose any features.
- Paramount Plus will have more than 30,000 TV episodes, 2,500 movie titles and more than 1,000 live sporting events at launch, with select Paramount movies coming to the service 45 days after theatrical release. For instance Mission Impossible: 7 and A Quiet Place Part II will stream 45 days after release. Others like Top Gun: Maverick, Sonic and Dungeons and Dragons will have the traditional 90 day theatrical run. There will also be a way to add Showtime within the Paramount Plus service.
- Paramount+ launches in the Nordics on March 25th and Australia later this year.
- ViacomCBS also reported in Q4 that CBS All Access and Showtime streaming subscribers grew 56% on the year to 30 million, with 19.2 million in the US.
- Among the new shows announced for paramount Plus are Halo starring Pablo Schreiber (Nikki Sobotka in the Wire), which was previously headed to Showtime.
- A revival of Frasier, starring Kelsey Grammar though that seems to be a couple years off.
- The Twilight Zone will not get a third season.
- And also headed now to Paramount Plus is Star Trek:" Prodigy, originally meant only for Nickelodeon, though it will still show up there as well.
Paramount Plus: What's Streaming, Pricing Plans, How to Get It
Paramount Plus to stream big-screen movies 45 days after they hit theaters
The Halo TV series is coming to Paramount Plus in 2022
ViacomCBS touts nearly 30 million global subscribers just before Paramount Plus launches
Star Trek Prodigy Moves Debut To Paramount+; Nickelodeon Premiere To Follow
Paramount Plus Streaming Plan Bows to Mixed Reviews From Wall Street
‘Frasier’ Reboot Confirmed For Paramount+ With Kelsey Grammer Returning
CBS All Access' 'The Twilight Zone' Not Returning for Third Season
What to Watch
Netflix's first 'Shadow and Bone' trailer shows off the fantasy world of Ravka
- Netflix released the first trailer for Shadow and Bone, the adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels. Eight episodes of Shadow and Bone arrive on Netflix April 23rd.
Frogger is coming to the Peacock streaming service as a game show
- Peacock is making a series based on the video game Frogger. 13 hour long episodes of people dodging things on an obstacle course have been ordered. The show is being filmed in Australia....
Netflix To Reimagine Transformers & My Little Pony For Two Animated Series
- Netflix is making a new animated series of Transformers and My Little Pony. And yes, Nickelodeon is ALSO making a Transformers show. Netflix's is called Transformers: BotBots about tinier little bots that disguise themselves as items on shelves at a mall. My Little Pony G5, is about the Ponies starting a group of economic countries to determine mutual trade policies.....or possibly it follows the events of the My Little Pony movie coming later this year.
Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney Plus Series Casts Indira Varma
- Indira Varma, who played Ellaria Sand on Game of Thrones has been cast in the Disney Plus Obi-Wan series. It is being written by Joby Harold and directed by Deborah Chow, set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith.
Milla Jovovich, Dave Bautista to Star in Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘In the Lost Lands,’ Adapted From George R.R. Martin Story
- Paul W. S Anderson of Resident Evil directing fame will direct an adaptation of George R.R. Martin's "In the Lost lands" that will star Mila Jovovich and Dave Bautista.
‘Superman’ Reboot In The Works At Warner Bros With Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing, J.J. Abrams Producing
- Deadline reports Ta-Nehisi Coates will write the next Superman reboot that is being produced by JJ Abrams. Coates has written about white supremacy and black history in multiple publications, wrote comic books for Black Panther and Captain America.
Hulu has ordered a third season of Animaniacs. Season 2 arrives later this year.
Eyes On
Naaim:: Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
Brian: Nomadland
Tom: Sisyphus
On the Lookout: Blown Away
Front Lines
Roku’s advertising ambitions just got even bigger with new Nielsen deal
- Roku is buying Nielsen's Advanced Video Advertising Unit. That includes technology like automatic content recognition and dynamic ad insertion. The technology provides better targeting and measurement for ads playing with video. This is sometimes called addressable TV advertising as compared to traditional cable and over the air ads that guess at who's watching. Roku will now control one of the best ways to get the most out of a streaming video ad dollar. Nielsen had deals to use the technology with Disney, CBS, Discovery, Fox, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, A_+E and AMC Networks. Roku's acquisition will mean "renewed conversations'' about those deals. Get ready for some more app brinkmanship maybe? The acquisition by Roku means that overnight, addressable TV ads work on more than 100 million connected devices, up from 55 million. Spending on addressable TV advertising in the United States is expected to hit “$3.6 billion by 2022
Google TV ‘basic’ mode will strip smart features, apps on TVs from TCL, Sony, others
- 9to5 Google reports that the upcoming smart TVs running Google TV will feature a "Basic TV" mode that strips out smart features and only show HDMI inputs, live channels, and a stripped down settings panel on the main Dashboard. Google confirmed that this mode is not part of Android TV 12 and only applies to TVs powered by Google TV.
AT&T announces deal to spin off DirecTV into new company owned by… AT&T
- AT&T finally figured out what to do with its TV service. DirecTV will be spun out into a separate business 70 percent owned by AT&T, and 30 percent owned by private equity company, TPG Capital. That subsidiary, called DirecTV will own and operate DirecTV, AT&T TV and U-Verse. Existing customers will not have service disrupted and will keep any bundles and discounts
2021 Golden Globes: Netflix dominates the night, Nomadland takes top honor
- Netflix took home the most Golden Globes at the wards ceremony Sunday. 3 for The Crown, two for Queen's Gambit and one each for Trial of the Chicago 7, I care A lot, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Amazon won two for Borat and one for its joint with BBC Small Axe. Disney Plus won two for Soul. Hulu won for The United States vs. Billie Holliday and Apple got one for Ted Lasso. Nomadland also took best director and best picture and is streaming on Hulu.
LG will license its webOS software to other TV brands
- LG announced it agreed to license its smart TV OS WebOS to TV brands RCA, Ayonz, and Konka. These manufacturers will use a “powered by webOS TV” platform based on WebOS 5.0, not WebOS 6, which LG displayed at CES 2021. WebOS 6 gets rids of the slide-up "blades" in favor of a more typical scrolling home screen. The move to license out WebOS puts LG in competition with Roku, Google TV and Amazon's FireTV for dominance in the TV OS space.
AMC Networks Had Over 6 Million Streaming Subs In Q4; Earnings Beat Street; Stock Pops
- AMC Networks announced it ended 2020 with more than 6 million subscribers across AMC+, AcornTV, Shudder, Sundance Now and ALLBLK, up 157% on the year. CEO Josh Sapan said Streaming is now the most significant growth area for the company.
Dispatches from the Front
I think I agree with Brian about the Netflix predictive download thing. Anytime a company starts 'deciding what I want to watch,' I get (what was the phrase Brian used?) ""a little prickly"" about what is motivating those downloads. It seems too easy for a company to behind the scenes start ""letting other companies pay to be bumped to the top of the list.""
Much like that U2 album from way back when.
Later!
- Michael
Brian,
You confuse me. All this time you have been saying your most wish for TV Consuming wet dream is to be able to just sit down and the TV / Streaming Bott will know you so well it will put on exactly what you really want to watch. But in the latest CordKillers you don't like that the AI of Netflix is making decisions for you without you giving it any input, or just a minimal amount. Fess Up. Which is it you really like?
- Blair
I’'m glad I can choose not to let Netflix it's original shows that I don't care about. Every time I log into Netflix they show me the same 10 GD shows that are original productions and I have no interest in watching. the last thing I want is Netflix to load up the hard drive, the tiny hard drive on my phone with all of its crap videos. I'm so glad you have to enable this on purpose.
Thank you for the show.
- MattBatt