Cordkillers 432 - Bob-ing Around (w/ Nicole Lee)
Disney switches Bobs as Iger returns to run the mouse. Plus, Netflix lets you logout remote devices and Neighbours finds a new home on Freevee. All that and more on Cordkillers!
Disney switches Bobs as Iger returns to run the mouse. Plus, Netflix lets you logout remote devices and Neighbours finds a new home on Freevee. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Nicole Lee ( https://mastodon.cloud/@nicole ).
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CordKillers: 432 - Bob-ing Around
Recorded: November 21 2022
Guest: Nicole Lee
Intro Video
It's A Wonderful Binge
Primary Target
Disney: Bob Iger in shock return to media giant
DISNEY SHAKEUP: Bob Iger Back as CEO, Bob Chapek Out; Board Cites ‘Complex Industry Transformation’ for Shocking C-Suite Shuffle
- Sunday Disney chair Susan Arnold announced that Bob Chapek was leaving the job of CEO of Disney and being replaced by his predecessor Bob Iger. Chapek took over as CEO of Disney Feb. 25, 2020. 71-year-old Iger stayed around as an advisor and executive chairman until Dec. 31, 2021 when he began his retirement. In June, Disney extended Chapek's contract until 2025. But a few weeks ago Disney announced that Disney+ has lost $1.5 billion. Iger has agreed to resume the role of Disney CEO for two years while he looks for a successor.
- I found out about the news from a. Friend of mine who is a huge fan of DisneyLand, @phatemokid, seemed very enthusiastic about the change. Then a few minutes later, people sitting next to me at the BlackPink concert discovered the news and all got very happy with one of them saying "The parks are going to be so sick now."
- So it seems like a popular choice.
How to Watch
Netflix Now Lets You Log Out Individual Devices Remotely — Part of Its Move to Curb Unauthorized Password-Sharing- Netflix added a new feature in Account settings called "Manage Access and Devices." It shows you all the devices that have recently streamed from your account. You can deauthorize them - log them out - with a click. To be clear this has existed previously without the ability to remotely log out individual devices.
- Netflix pitched it as a way to make sure you logged out of that hotel or airbnb smart TV.
What to Watch
‘Neighbours’ Is Coming Back! Amazon Freevee Swoops for New Season in 2023
- You may not be excited personally about this but try to look at it as a milestone.
- Neighbors doesn't have a direct equivalent int he US. It was a daily drama on broadcast television in Australia airing in the early evening. So part daytime soap opera part prime time drama. It ran for 36 years and some big stars got their start there, including Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearces, Jason Donovan and Margot Robbie. It was canceled this year after UK's Channel 5 pulled its co-funding. The series finale on July 29th.
- That is until Amazon stepped in and bought worldwide rights to make new episodes and air them in the UK and US on FreeVee, it's FAST service. Freevee will also get the back episodes and it will show on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Australia's Network 10 will keep first run rights so they may be broadcast as well.
Apple to launch ‘MLS Season Pass’ subscription on February 1
- You may not be excited personally about this but try to look at it as a milestone.
- Neighbors doesn't have a direct equivalent int he US. It was a daily drama on broadcast television in Australia airing in the early evening. So part daytime soap opera part prime time drama. It ran for 36 years and some big stars got their start there, including Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearces, Jason Donovan and Margot Robbie. It was canceled this year after UK's Channel 5 pulled its co-funding. The series finale on July 29th.
- That is until Amazon stepped in and bought worldwide rights to make new episodes and air them in the UK and US on FreeVee, it's FAST service. Freevee will also get the back episodes and it will show on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Australia's Network 10 will keep first run rights so they may be broadcast as well.
‘Doctor Who’ Casts Millie Gibson as Companion to Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor
- Doctor Who announced that Millie Gibson has been cast as Ruby Sunday, the Doctor's companion in the forthcoming season starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor. Gibson is most famous for playing Kelly Nolan on Coronation Street, which is a Uk series very similar to Neighbors.
Roku Acquires 150 ‘Great Baking Show’ Episodes, Launches Franchise FAST Channel, Debuts Teaser for U.S. Celebrity Holiday Special
- Roku acquired 150 episodes of the Great British Baking Show and spinoffs and launched a free channel in the Roku app. Roku is also producing a new season of the Great American Baking Show coming next year, as well as a holiday episode premiering December 2nd.
Eyes On:
Nicole: Andor, Confess, Fletch
Brian: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Tom: Bob's Burgers
On the Lookout: Miami Vice Changed Everything
Front Lines
Netflix Top 10: ‘The Crown’ Season 5 Debuts at No. 1 With More Than 107 Million Hours Viewed in First 5 Days
- The Crown reached number one on Netflix's English-language chart for the week of November 7-13 with 107.39 million hours. It reached number one in 37 countries and top 10 in 88 countries. Coming in second place is “Manifest” Season 4 with 74.78 million hours.
YouTube has its own ‘Tudum’ launch sound now
- YouTube has created a launch animation sound, similar to what several apps do, like Netflix's "TuDum." The new YouTube sound will play when you launch the app, starting with the TV-based apps.
Netflix Subscribers Can Download Immortality Game for iOS Devices
- Netflix has made the game Immortality available for iOS as part of a Netflix subscription. Immortality launched in August for PC, Xbox and PlayStation and is nominated for best game direction and best narrative in the Game Awards. The game lets you edit footage from three movies featuring an actress called Marissa Marcel. You review the clips in order to solve a mystery.
Quentin Tarantino Reveals Plans to Shoot an Eight-Episode TV Series Next Year
- Quentin Tarantino says he plans to shoot an 8-episode TV series in 2023. He gave no details on what it would be about or where you would be able to watch it. But he was asked what comic book he would adapt if given a choice and he said Marvel’s “Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos.”
The White Lotus has been renewed for a third season with new characters and a new location.
Peacock announced that the second season of Bel-Air will premiere February 23rd.
Dispatches from the Front
Hey guys,
I just wanted to drop a quick note thanking you for keeping the show going. I know Patreon numbers are down a bit from a few years ago.
You are my “treat” podcast.
You record on Monday but I wait until Friday afternoon to watch as a reward for making it through the week.
You are also the only podcast I watch/listen to at normal speed. I listen to all others at 1.5x or higher.
Keep up the great work and I’ll keep supporting on Patreon.
Regards,
- TJ
Hi gents -
the strangest thing happened to me last week. I was in Huntington Beach at streaming Media West (a small tech conference I've enjoyed going to for years). There i was sitting out having drinks with old friends and I could have sworn I heard "ccccooooorrrrrrddddd kkkkiiillllllllllllleeerrss" whispered on the breeze. Still, i just put it out of my mind. the next morning while I was walking back to the last day of the conference two crows landed near me and i'm fairly sure one looked me squarely in the eye and mutter "CORD KILLERS!" then flew off.
Anyway, that night on my flight home, I was catching up on podcasts and I realized I was summoned to respond! Sheesh, next time just send a guy a text.
So the question was are those old netflix servers (which brian rightly called out as having shown up on reddit) and whether those would be viable to reuse by someone to extend a specific companies capabilities. in a nutshell, technically a company could do this, though I suspect they'd spend way too much time maintaining them versus just using modern cloud deployments they can lease or rent to get the same impact. Where this old infrastructure DOES help is rural or network isolated areas (parts of africa or india, or even rural US) where telcos and CDNs haven't invested in infrastructure. To that end, friends of mine in the industry set up a nonprofit a few years ago called Help Me Stream whose goal is to take donated old computer hardware and build out small streaming server farms that can be deployed in remote areas by charitable organizations serving these remote communities. They're helping extend the support these organizations provide in these spaces and helping connect these communities to the Internet. There are some who argue it is very inefficient to run this old tech (older servers almost always take more electricity to run, upping its carbon footprint) but Help Me Stream also investigates running these deployments off solar or other alternative electric sources to help offset some of that. It's a worthy cause. I suggest folks check out there homepage to learn more: https://www.hmsrf.org/home. And shout out to Tim Siglin who runs this group and Dom Robinson who has contributed a great deal of time and knowledge to the deployments. Dom also runs an international association called the Greening of Streaming focused on improving the underpinning environmental efficiency that underpins our industry. https://www.greeningofstreaming.org/
- Andy
Hey Cord Killer Crew!
My wife and I just finished a overseas trip to the UK and France from Florida and I found it interesting how my streaming services worked while on the trip. I did no research ahead of time other than download movies and shows I was interested in ahead of time.
The MVP of the trip:
Netflix. It just worked. Shows and movies I downloaded were available on airplane mode or not, and only a few select items I downloaded once my phone knew I was in another country did not work. I assume if I stayed in airplane mode long enough the content would stay available. The splash screen when I opened the app even knew I was traveling and recommended content about the country I was in!
Second place:
YouTube Premium. Almost the same scenario as Netflix. My downloaded content was available whether I had a connection or not and my experience was almost the same as if I was at home.
Third place:
Amazon Prime. All my content was available and I only noticed a few shows unavailable due to licensing. The app also acknowledged I was overseas and showed me content geared towards my trip.
4th Place:
Disney Plus. This was on the same level as Amazon. I did not really expect it to work at all but was surprised when it did and I was able to keep up with Andor while I was gone.
Last place:
Hulu did not work at all overseas.
Dog shit pile:
HBO Max. I have always had issues with the HBO Max app and overseas did not work any better. Even while not traveling, HBO Max will not show you your downloaded content unless you have a very good internet connection, or your phone is on airplane mode. My downloaded shows worked on airplane mode, but the moment the app realized I was overseas the app locked me out of my account, even downloaded media, and refused to work again until the app saw I was back in the US.
Now I know the easy answer for this is to use a VPN, but I thought that this was a good view of what it was like for people that don't think that far ahead or are more casual. Thanks!
- Kyle
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