Cordkillers 452 - We'll Do It To-Tape!
Warner announced the next phase of HBO Max--it's Max! Plus, Netflix's follow-up live program hit catastrophic technical difficulties, but how much of a big deal is it? We finally get the new NFL Sunday Ticket prices...they're still high! All that and more on Cordkillers!
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CordKillers: 452 - We'll Do It To-Tape!
Recorded: April 17 2023
Guest: None
Intro Video
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
Primary Target
HBO Max will just be called 'Max' when it folds in Discovery+ on May 23rd
‘Game Of Thrones’ Dunk & Egg Prequel ‘Knight Of Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Night’ Gets HBO Series Order
‘Harry Potter’ Series Adaptation Officially Ordered at HBO Max, Will Feature Entirely New Cast
‘The Regime’: HBO Unveils Teaser, New Title For Limited Series Starring Kate Winslet
- Warner Media has changed the name of its HBO Max service to just "Max" with the tagline "The one to watch. Warner CEO David Zaslav says that with the new influx of Discovery content being brought over, it will have the largest TV library in the world. Zaslav repeated his previous talking points that HBO Max was good at acquiring subscribers and Discovery+ good at retaining them, and the new Max should be good at both. He also said that details on sports and news elements of Max will be announced in a few months.
- President of Streaming and Games JB Perette pitched Max as having everything so you won't need multiple services. Sadly Max will not have Star Trek, Star Wars or Bridgerton so your mileage may vary on that assertion. He also talked up a redesigned UI and more stable service. Expect more genre-based hubs ad user-optimized recommendations and a built-in Kids profile.The app color will be blue not purple so you can easily confuse it with Prime and Paramount Plus.
- Max will take over most existing HBO Max app May 23, with some platform's apps getting a notification they need to download a new one. The ad-free tier will stay $16 a month, an ad-supported tier stays $10 a month. Both will support two simultaneous HD streams. A new $20 a month tier has 4 concurrent streams, 4K and Dolby Atmos. Discovery+ will still be available separately for $4.99 month.
NOTES:
- Adding PayPal as a payment method. Proactive notification if payment method will fail on renewal.
- Head of streaming at Warner JB Perette: "HBO is not TV, HBO is HBO. It needs to stay that way, which is why we will privilege it in the product experience, and also not push it to the breaking point."
- Max Original: The Penguin - 8 episode series
- A Conjuring series is coming to Max, and a new The Big Bang Theory spinoff is coming from Chuck Lorre.
-ALSO highlighted The Flight Attendant, Hacks, The Sex Lives of College Girls are highlighted as big shows on Max, and the upcoming new sports gambling series How to Be a Bookie, Rick and Morty the Anima, Chip and Joanna Gaines doing a Waco hotel, Ciao House (Tuscany), Barbie Dream House Challenge hosted by Ashley Graham, True Detective: Night Country with Jodie Foster, The Regime and The Sympathizer (from Park Chan-wook), Tiny Toons Looniversity
- Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai animated series from Steven Spielberg weret announced. James Ha, Ming-Na Wen and many other faves are contributing their voice work for the Gremlins series.
- Kate Winslet-led The Regime from Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) and Jessica Hobbs.
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, 100 years before GoT, from exec producer George R.R. Martin, about Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg. Ryan Condal is on board. written and executive produced by George R.R. Martin and Ira Parker. Ryan Condal and Vince Gerardis will also executive produce.
- A multi-season Harry Potter series to be told over the next 10 years, is coming. That new Potter series will be "a faithful adaptation of all seven books." New cast
How to Watch
Netflix’s Love Is Blind live reunion special was a disaster
‘Love Is Blind’ Reunion To Debut On Netflix 19 Hours After Planned Live Launch
Netflix Proceeds With ‘Love Is Blind’ Reunion Taping After Technical Issues Crater Live Broadcast Plans
Netflix Scraps 'Love Is Blind' Live Event After Technical Failure
‘Love Is Blind’: Vanessa Lachey Addresses Tech Snafu At Top Of Reunion Show
- In March Netflix proved it could pull off a massive live streaming event by delivering a worldwide live stream of Chris Rock's comedy special where he discussed the famous slap. Sunday April 16th Netflix blew all that live streaming credibility.
- A live reunion special for the cast of the reality show Love is Blind was first delayed and then the live stream was canceled. Netflix proceeded to tape the special and post it on demand afterwards.
- The stream started at 8 PM with reportedly a few people able to see it but most father world not. So Netflix posted that they would delay streaming 15 minutes. That stretched to an hour and a half at which point Netflix posted "To everyone who stayed up late, woke up early, gave up their Sunday afternoon… we are incredibly sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion did not turn out as we had planned. We're filming it now and we'll have it on Netflix as soon as humanly possible. Again, thank you and sorry." Allegedly some folks were able to see it love and it went up on demand at 12 Pacific Monday for everybody else.
-Reunion will be available for streaming at 12PM PT today. They briefly mention that it's not live and that the cast sat quietly so "you didn't miss a thing." Otherwise, the show looks like a typical film-to-tape reunion special with a studio audience.
- Netflix on Twitter: To everyone who stayed up late, woke up early, gave up their Sunday afternoon… We are incredibly sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion did not turn out as we had planned. We're filming it now and we'll have it on Netflix as soon as humanly possible. Again, thank you and…" / Twitter"
- NOTES:
- We still don't know what caused the issues but I asked someone who works in live streaming what "possibly" could have caused the issues.
- There are two likely possibilities
- 1. Connectivity could have failed from the studio where it was being filmed. That could explain why they were able to record it for VOD.
- 2. Or connectivity could have failed at the point they fan it out to regional CDNs to stream into homes. They would have to encode and package it before distributing it and something in that part of the process could have failed to stop replication.
- There is technology called an origin shield that exist between the primary feed out of encoders to the CDN. I’d look there to see if some were getting it some were or there was intermittent behavior.
- Given that reportedly some people could still see the live stream, not feels like explanation 2 is more likely.
What to Watch
‘The Continental’ Teaser Trailer: Mel Gibson Stars in John Wick TV Series
- Peacock released a teaser for its three part series 'The Continental" set in the John Wick universe. Colin Woodell plays a young version o f the character played by Ian McShane in the movies. Mel Gibson places Cormac though he's not in the teaser. The series premieres this September.
Marvel released a trailer for The Marvels which comes to theaters November 10th.
Disney released a teaser for The Muppets Mayhem series coming to Disney+ May 10th. It follows Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem recording a studio album.
Eyes On:
Brian: Live music
Tom: Coachella on YouTube
On the Lookout: Beef
Front Lines
NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube starts at $249 for the 2023 season
- YouTube announced pricing for next season's NFL Sunday Ticket which is moving from DirecTV to YouTube and YouTube TV. The short version is that it will be more expensive. Here's the longer version. If you're a YouTube TV subscriber already at $73 a month, you can get a discount if you sign up by June 6th, after that the standard price will be $349 or $389 a year if you want Red Zone, the channel that shows you important plays of all games underway. Red Zone alone is available for $10.99 a month. If you just want to add Sunday Ticket to YouTube without getting YouTube TV, it's $100 more.
Google TV Launches Live Guide for 800-Plus Free Streaming Channels
- Google has expanded its free-ad supported TV- or FAST- listings in the Google TV interface. If you have a device running Google TV you can find more than 800 live channels now in its guide interface. They include news channels from major broadcasters, free channels from Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex and Haystack News. And if you pay for a service like Sling TV or have piped in some over-the-air channels from an antenna, those channels will show up as well. A similar TV guide and free channels will come to some Android devices later this year.
AMC Networks Expects to Launch Ad-Supported AMC+ Tier in 2023
- AMC+ plans to offer an ad-supported tier this year. It will have the same content as paid plans and promises minimal ad interruptions for movies.
Apple partners with Canal+ to bring Apple TV+ content to all subscribers
Apple TV 4K is getting multiview for sports streams
- Apple signed a multiyear deal with Canal+ to provide Apple TV originals to Canal+ subscribers in Europe. They will be part of the Canal+ subscription, not an add on. Some shows, like “The Morning Show,” “Foundation” and “Tehran'' will even be broadcasted on Canal+’s premium TV channels And if a Canal+ subscriber accesses AppleTV's app they won't be able to get the shows there without paying for Apple TV+. Apple VP of services Eddy Cue said " It’s a many-years thing and hopefully something that lasts for forever in my mind.” And Apple TV 4K added a multiview feature for Apple TV streams in beta that you can turn on in settings. It's useful if you want to watch multiple soccer games at once for instance.
Prime Video renewed "A League of their Own" for a four-episode second and final season.
Paramount+ will screen the last two episodes of Picard at ten IMax theaters in the US.
Peacock launched an app for the Meta Quest 2 so you can watch shows in a virtual theater, similar to what other streaming services like Netflix offer.
Sylvester Stallone's Balboa Pictures has signed a multiyear deal with Amazon for first look rights to film and TV projects.
‘The Idol’ Trailer: Lily-Rose Depp Becomes a ‘Nasty, Bad Pop Girl’ as The Weeknd’s Wild HBO Series Sets June Debut
WGA Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize A Strike If No Deal By May 1
Dispatches from the front
Hey gang,
Looks like Brian was right!! The new Warner Discovery service is called “Max.” That’s all I got. 😂
Take care,
- E
I know in the past I've come down on Brian's takes but he's spot on about what Warner Bros/Discovery is potentially doing to the HBO brand. WIth the rebrand to MAX I noticed one thing. For as long as I can recall HBO's logo has had that little circle inside of the ""O"". If you look at the MAX logo the ""A"" has that little circle inside. Is this a subtle way to keep MAX associated with HBO? Whenever I see that ""A"" I instantly think of HBO because of that graphic design choice. Food for thought.
- Russ
For brand new movies that are in between theater and streaming runs, I've seen prices between 5.99 up to $20 ( for early releases).
I got mad at myself during the Easter weekend we went to rent a movie and I noticed there was a special for the movie and it was renting at 99 cents but it was late and we didn't want to watch it then and we were going to watch it next day so I waited to rent it and the price had jumped back up to $5.99. This was on prime video.
- thatCharlieDude
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