Cordkillers 440 - Amazon Is Drawing It, Okay? (w/ Bill Oakley)

We're joined with writer extraordinaire Bill Oakley to talk about going from TV to audiobook and everything in-between. Plus, Netflix changes leadership and we've got a Mando trailer! All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Bill Oakley ( http://steamedhamssociety.com/ ).

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CordKillers: 440 - Amazon Is Drawing It, Okay?
Recorded: January 23 2023
Guest: Bill Oakley

Intro Video
Drive to Survive

Primary Target
Interview with Bill Oakley
Space: 1969
Bill Oakley IMDB
Steamed Hams Society Patreon

How to Watch
Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, With Reed Hastings as Executive Chairman
- Netflix announced earnings Thursday but started with a bombshell. Reed Hastings has stepped down as co-CEO. COO Greg Peters is now Co-CEO alongside Ted Sarandos. Hastings will remain as Executive Chairman of the board. 
- In a blog post about the move, Hastings said that Sarandos was promoted to Co-CEO in July 2020 and Peters to COO, partly because of long-term succession planning. Hastings said he will spend more time on philanthropy now. 

Netflix Earnings
Netflix Execs Say Advertising Tier Is Off To “Solid” Start; Viewing Is On Par With Ad-Free Level, Will Account For 10% Of Company Revenue In Coming Years
- It was a good quarter to go out on. Analysts had expected a rise of 4.57 million subscribers and Netflix almost doubled that, adding 7.66 million in Q4 to reach 230.75 million total subscribers. Every market grew. The US and Canada grew the least at 910,000 subscribers, and Europe and the Middle East grew the most with 3,200,000 new subs. The company met analyst revenue estimates with $7.85 billion in Q4, but missed on earnings.
- Netflix also thinks its ad-supported tier is off to a "solid" start and expects it will bring in $3 billion in annual revenue. New Co-CEO Greg Peters said engagement is “comparable to similar users on our non-ad plans.”

Netflix’s paid password sharing to roll out ‘more broadly’ in the coming months
- The company also followed up on its plans to add a path to paid sharing of accounts, saying those methods will roll out "more broadly" “later in Q1’23”. Netflix's terms of service have always prohibited sharing the account outside of the household, but Netflix has been increasing its methods of detection while testing a way to pay extra to add an out-of-household account. Netflix also plans to offer a way to keep your profile data when you start a new account of your own, making it easier to switch from a shared account. 

What to Watch
Disney+ released a trailer for the Mandalorian which returns March 1st. 
‘Invincible’ Season 2 Teaser Reveals Late 2023 Premiere on Amazon Prime Video
- Amazon released a teaser for Season 2 of Invincible. It is a conversation between Mark Grayson and Allen the Alien in which at one point Allen asks what Mark has been doing and he says "writing, designing, storyboarding, voice acting, key posing, in-betweening, cleaning up, color slapping, comping the whole thing, and all that for, you know, roughly thousands of shots." So no.There were no scenes from Season 2 of Invincible. Invincible returns to Amazon Prime Video in late 2023.

Hello Tomorrow! Official Trailer
- Apple released a trailer for "Hello Tomorrow." Described as "Mad Men with Jet Packs." Billy Crudup plays a person who runs a firm that sells real estate on the Moon during a version of the 1950s that has jetpacks and hoverers. Coming February 17.

Eyes On:
Bill: Gogglebox
Brian: YouTube Shorts
Tom: Servant
On the Lookout: Pepsi Where’s My Jet?

Front Lines
Netflix now rolling out refreshed interface to its iPhone app [U]

YouTube TV’s live guide and library are getting much better starting today
- Netflix rolled out a new UI for its iOS app. It features large card graphics for new movies and series. It also makes it easier to filter categories by content, and switch user profiles. YouTube TV launched a new interface for its library section. It lets you see more shows at once and simplified filters. The live guide also has recommendations at the top as well as showing more channels and descriptions of the programming.

The Google Home app’s new TV remote adds volume and play controls
- The Google Home app's TV remote can now control "works with Google" compatible devices like Roku, Samsung and LG TVs. Controls include playback, inputs and volume.

Samsung wants to bring TV Plus to third-party TVs
- Janko Röttgers wrote in Lowpass that Samsung is in talks to bring its Samsung TV Plus FAST service to TCL TVs. Like Pluto TV or the Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus has a collection of channels and on demand TV supported by ads. Up until now you could only get it on Samsung devices like phones and TVs.

Regal Cinemas to Shut Down 39 U.S. Theaters Amid Bankruptcy
- As part of bankruptcy proceedings of its parent company, Cineworld, Regal Cinemas announced it will shut down 39 theater locations in the US starting February 15th. Many fo those are locations Regal added after Arclight closed down.

Meryl Streep will join the cast of Only Murders in the Building for its third season. 
Warner Brothers TV is in talks to make a limited series about the life if Buster Keaton, starring Rami Malek and directed by Matt Reeves. 
NCIS: Los Angeles will air its series finale May 14th, ending a 14-season run.
Amazon signed a deal to distribute sports channel DAZN (da-zone) as an add-on to Prime Video, starting in Spain and Germany.  
The Reelz channel has reached a deal to become the TV home of Major League Wrestling starting February 7th.
Apple announced that Ted Lasso Season 3 will arrive on Apple TV+ this spring. They didn't give us a specific date.
Netflix will adapt the young adult novel Geek Girl into a 10-part series. The book is about a teenager plucked from geeky obscurity to begin a modeling career.
Paramount released a trailer for Scream 6, the first without Neve Campbell, but WITH Hayden Panetierre. Scream 6 comes to theaters March 10.
‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’: Disney+ Series Starring Jude Law Wraps Filming
- Disney+ reported wrapped filming on Star Wars: Skelton Crew which stars Jude Law and tells the story of kids lost in the universe. It takes place in the same timelines as The Mandalorian.

Dispatches from the front
Hi Bryce,Brian,Tom,and guest

Briefly,I never successfully played the game on my PS3. I only ever played the first 10 minutes, and never took the time or effort to keep going. Per Brian's advice in the past, I watched a 4.5 hour video of the game remastered on Youtube. I recently did this as a Youtube Premium subscriber over this weekend. I started on Friday. I finished it onSunday. I treated the video as episodic television instead of binging it all at once.

Overall, I finally get why this game resonated with so many over the last 10 years. I was okay with the changes made to the story for episode 1 of the live series. The 2nd episode disappointed me with the changes.And I felt the cliffhanger pacing at the end was too fast with 7 episodes to go. I'll keep watching along with Cordkillers.And I look forward to what everyone else has to say on episode 2 and the eventual result of the series.

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- David 

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