Cordkillers 396 - Cranky Strange (w/ Jennie Josephson)
MoviePass is coming back and Tom gets snared in a Chatrealm trap. NBC's coming exodus from Hulu and Futurama will live again! All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Jennie Josephson ( https://twitter.com/jenniej23 ).
This week on It's Spoilerin' Time: The Book of Boba Fett (107), The Righteous Gemstones (207), Raised By Wolves (203)
Next week: The Righteous Gemstones (208), Raised By Wolves (204), Peacemaker (Season 1)
CordKillers: 396 - Cranky Strange
Recorded: February 14 2022
Guest: Jennie Josephson
Intro Video
DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing
Primary Target
MoviePass is officially coming back
MoviePass 2.0 plans summer relaunch with credits, theater partnerships but no unlimited movies
How to Watch
Comcast’s NBCUniversal Near Deal to Shift Content to Peacock From Hulu
Netflix’s Marvel TV shows will disappear at the end of this month
- I've tried to tell y'all over the past few years that the great explosion of choice some of you complained about would not last forever.
- I've also said that shows moving around from service to service was mostly a phenomenon of legacy deals needing to unwind.
- As the number of services shows signs of beginning to consolidate, the services that want to survive are pulling in their own content off other platforms. We're in the endgame now folks.
- Two stories are emblematic of this new stage.
- One, Hulu has had NBC shows the next day since back before it was owned by Disney. With Peacock a lot of folks thought those shows would just move to Peacock but there were contracts and stuff preventing that.
- Remember that NBC's owner, Comcast, still owns a small part of Hulu. Disney has wrested control of Hulu and they'd like that last small bit too.
- The Wall Street Journal's sources say NBC is finalizing a plan to change the Hulu partnership and make next-day streaming of flagship shows like The Voice and Saturday Night Live exclusive to Peacock. Apparently NBC had until Friday to make the move otherwise the existing deal continues until 2024.
- And in another shoe we've been waiting to drop, the Marvel shows made for Netflix, Daredevil, Jessica jones, etc.. will be disappearing from Netflix on February 28th. No word on where they will show up next, but Disney+ is the obvious bet.
- So NBC is pushing to get content back early from Hulu and Marvel evaporating from Netflix. Are we headed for a world where IP always appears on its own service? - Is it a world we want?
What to Watch
See All Super Bowl Trailers, From ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘Jurassic World’ and More
Watch Amazon's first trailer for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'
'Doctor Strange 2' Trailer Introduces Professor X and Evil Wanda
Oscar Isaac Loses His Mind in ‘Moon Knight’ Super Bowl Trailer
In 'Nope' Trailer, Daniel Kaluuya Saddles up for Jordan Peele's New Nightmare
Jurassic World Dominion trailer reunites original movie's heroes
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness coming to theaters May 6
- Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power coming to Amazon Prime Video September 2nd
- Jordan Peele's western horror film called Nope coming to theaters July 22.
- Jurassic world: Dominion coming to theaters June 10
- The Lost City (Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock) coming to theaters March 25
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 coming to theaters April 8
- The Adam Project coming to Netflix March 11
- Moon Knight coming to Disney+ March 30.
Eyes On
Jennie: Broadchurch Staged, There She Goes, Around the World in 80 Days
Brian: Big City Greens
Tom: Snowdrop
On the Lookout: Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown
Front Lines
Disney Plus Ends 2021 With Nearly 130 Million Subscribers, Smashing Growth Forecasts
- Disney reported it had 129.8 million paying Disney Plus subscribers globally at the end of 2021, up 37% on the year and adding 11.8 million since the end of Q3. 42.9 million subscribe to the service in the US and Canada, Disney Plus Hotstar in India and Southeast Asia had 45.9 million, with 41.1 million international subscribers.
‘Futurama’ Revival Ordered at Hulu With Multiple Original Cast Members Returning
- Futurama is making another comeback. Hulu announced it will bring the series back for a third time with 20 episodes to start streaming in 2023. Most fo the cast was announced as coming back except John DiMaggio who voices Bender. Futurama aired on Fox from 1999 to 2002, then did four DVD movies and then came back to Comedy Central from 2010 to 2013.
Tubi Streaming Hours Jump 40% In 2021 With AVOD Viewing Poised To Overtake SVOD This Year
- Free streaming got some good news. Fox-owned Tubi reported a 40% increase in streams in 2021 to 3.6 billion hours. Tubi notes that Marketcast showed that streaming video on demand audiences grew 8% in 2021 while ad-supported video on demand (like Tube) grew 16%. Tube focuses on its library of 41,000 titles rather than spending billions on new content.
Where to stream all the Oscars nominees, from West Side Story to Dune
- The Oscar nominees were announced last week and marked the shift rom "what streaming services had nominees" to "where can I stream the nominees." Most of the nominees are available on services. And most of the rest are available for purchase or rental. CNET has a good breakdown of what's available where. Only West Side Story, Drive My Car, and Licorice Pizza are listed as unavailable at home and all three are still in theaters.
WarnerMedia-Discovery Merger Gets Green Light From U.S. Regulators
Discovery Sets Date for Shareholder Vote on WarnerMedia Deal
- We're pretty close to the finalization of Warner Media being spun out from AT&T and merged with Discovery. US regulators signed off not he merger last Wednesday. And Discovery set the date for its shareholder vote to happen on March 11. That is expected to pass without any trouble setting the stage for the two companies to merge in April and become Warner Brothers Discovery.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, a limited Original series, starts streaming May 25 on DisneyPlus.
‘Bridgerton’: Lady Whistledown Sharpens Her Knives In Season 2 Teaser Trailer
‘Better Call Saul’ Gets Premiere Dates For Both Halves Of Sixth & Final Season
‘West Side Story’ Gets Premiere Date on Disney Plus, HBO Max
‘Lucy and Desi’ Trailer: Amy Poehler’s Documentary Examines the Unlikely TV Icons Behind ‘I Love Lucy’
- Obi-Wan Kenobi, a limited Original series, starts streaming May 25 on DisneyPlus.
- Netflix also released a new trailer for season 2 of Bridgerton returning March 25.
- Better Call Saul returns to AMC April 18 for seven episodes, takes a quick break and then comes back Jul 11 for the last six episodes of the final season.
- And West Side Story comes to Disney Plus in the US and most markets on March 2, and also HBO Max in the US on the same day.
- And Amazon released a trailer for the Amy Ppehler documentary "Lucy and Desi" coming March 4.
Dispatches from the Front
Hi Folks - Thought I would pitch in with my $.02 on the whole Binge Vs Weekly debate that discussed in the last episode. While I don’t have a set rule I have usually binged Comedy shows (Seinfeld and Modern Family in about 3 months each) but preferred a slightly slower approach to some more complicated shows with lots of Story lines like Witcher or GoT to be able to absorb the week’s stories and listen to the podcasts etc. But last night when I started Narcos: Mexico Season 3 I was totally lost as to who was who and then figured out this was one of those series that given the number of characters is better as a binge as you will not be able to remember all of them. (That is why I plan on bingeing The Expanse now that all it’s seasons are done. TL;DR I guess it is dependent on the show and your preferences as you can see even I contradicted myself before the email ended. But I definitely do not agree that every show is better in a Binge.
Thanks,
- Josh
Gentlemen and guests, I bought an LG 4K tv last year which is a smart tv to replace my aging non-smart tv. I find it more convenient to use the TV apps than it is to use a streaming stick. The problem is, not all apps are available on my tv. If I want to watch hockey on ESPN plus I have to use a stick( I have Roku, FireTv and Chromecast). It seems that the apps on the tv as well as LG’s OS are updated frequently,
thanks
- Steve
Just wanted to share my use case that I have an external dongle for two reasons. I bought a Tivo stream 4K that is plugged in to my very high-end LG OLED television. And the reason I have it and don't exclusively use the TV OS is because:
1) After several years I still do not have HBO Max on my LG tv. This is very frustrating, and I have no recourse but to use some other method to watch this particular streaming service.
2) The Tivo Stream 4k actually does a really good job of letting me keep track of all the shows I watch in one place. I add all of the shows I watch on almost every streaming service into one page called "My Shows" so when I navigate to this page I can remember all of the things that I am watching or want to watch regardless of service, and when I click on that show or movie it takes me right to that streaming service to watch it. This is very helpful because I very often forget all of the things I'm watching and all the different places they live, and this is a great way to aggregate that and remind me that for example "oh yeah I still have more Righteous Gemstones to watch" or "oh yeah I still haven’t watched Red Notice" Once I am done watching a show or movie I just remove it from that page and whenever I want to add something to my watch list I just add it to that page.
So until there is a smart TV that can guarantee I will have all of the streaming apps that I want (good luck to us all on that) AND help me aggregate all my shows and movies into one nice watch list, I will continue to use an external device.
- Adam
Hey gang!
I was listening to the last episode and someone writing in talked about how they were going to listen to spoilerin time without having watched the rest of The Book of Boba Fett and I thought I’d add something. I almost never watch a show concurrent with you guys week over week. My wife HATES waiting week over week for a show but also is very out of the loop when it comes to new shows. What I do is I listen to all the spoiler on time episodes for new shows all the way until the end of the season and then determine whether or not it’ll be something my wife would like to watch along with me. Once the season (and your commentary) is over, I walk in and say “Honey! I’ve got this great new show I KNOW you will love!” I like listening to the commentary and I’ve never thought that this has detracted from the experience of watching the shows at all. I did this with Raised by Wolves, What we do in the Shadows (both seasons), The Righteous Gemstones Season 1, Squid Game (decided not to watch it), The Good Place, and many many more. I’ve literally been using spoilers in time as a tv guide for years and you guys are a great litmus test to see if my wife will like a show. She knows I do it and it’s been a proven system since before we were married. Even if I never intend on watching a show I still find the conversation enjoyable.
Keep it up,
- Ander
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