But that’s not the problem these people are trying to solve. If just getting visibility into issues was the concern they’d be youtubers. They are not. They are entertainers who want to be paid to do these things, so they will go where the money is.
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1972
Presumably John Stewart is not being forced to host and produce these shows, so I would imagine that he’s on board with them being on Apple TV+ and not PBS.
And compared to today’s availability of John Stewart-based entertainment on TV, which is approximately zero, having a show on Apple TV+ represents an infinite incremental improvement, so hopefully we can all live with them not being made available to everyone in the world.
“Hey guys, we invented…uh…TV stations?”
Now now. TV stations show a carefully curated selection of content designed to maximize ad buys.
I saw that show up a bit ago, not sure if I’ll use it but choice paralysis in regards of what to watch is something I experience often. Open Netflix, browse, open Amazon browse, HBO Max, Disney +, Hulu, repeat.
The problem is that the existence of a “skip” button means that it doesn’t really solve the decision paralysis thing. At which point, they’ve invented channel surfing.
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1977
Yeah I’m experiencing the same thing. Tens of thousands of TV shows and movies available whenever I want them, but nothing’s on!
I typically end up going to YouTube TV and watching whatever Family Guy episode is running on TBS, FX, or wherever.
Not currently a Netflix subscriber but I hated when we would scroll through their cards for 20 minutes. I’d rather use that button, even if all it will do is show us something that makes us realize what we really want to watch.
Is there anyway on Hulu to mark something as watched?
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1980
Not that I’ve found. It’s infuriating.
Netflix is absolutely abominable at guessing what I’d like to watch, so that’s a useless feature.
That’s because what NETFLIX wants you to watch (or think you do) is much more important than what you actually do. Otherwise they’d have never gotten rid of useful things like rotten tomatoes ratings.
Or their five star rating system. They had gotten really good at recommendations back in the DVD rental days.
Everyone I know hates that netflix feature.
I’d use it if it was more customizable though.
Usually you’ll just get the stuff you scroll past on the top of the front page and the trending tops. Nothing deep in the catalogue.
Did anyone watch Let’s Be Real on Fox a couple of nights ago? I caught some of the first episode on Hulu just now. It’s a puppet comedy show produced and written by Robert Smigel of “Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog” fame. It opens with a pretty great send-up of Andrew Cuomo’s press conferences about the pandemic.
Thanks for the heads up. Smigel mentioned he had a new show on WTF, but I didn’t realize it was on Hulu.
Good first episode.
Episode 2 is out.
While you were out, who was at home watching the Beef?
Objection! Question is too good!
Sustained! Watch yourself Counselor.
Holee shit.
WarnerMedia Group is HBO and all HBO brands, CNN, TBS, (and TNT, etc) and DC. Discovery Inc is absolutely huge now – the article suggests bigger than Netflix.
I don’t see the value to ATT in doing this.
