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The Official TV Thread

Rest In Peace Bob Einstein a.k.a..Super Dave Osborne.

I remember watching Super Dave and later the series "Bizarre", produced in Canada (in Toronto).


https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/bob-einstein-super-dave-dies-1.4963619
 
For the Bye Week, I have some recommendations (which I probably recommended before).
Your mileage may vary obviously since they're my tastes. I like subversion.

Please add yours (because I already watched all these)

Fun (and might still be in theatres): Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Next-level animation, super tight story and character beats

Phoebe Waller-Bridge stuff: Killing Eve, Fleabag, Crashing (UK)
Her writing (and acting in the latter two) blend pathos, dark humour, and cringe in wonderfully entertaining ways.

Super Smart Takes on Very Naughty Topics:
Blockers (2018)
The trailers did this film a disservice.

Sex Education
Sex Education covers the gamut of topics I'd want a proper sex ed curriculum to address, wrapped in an engaging story with full-depth characters. Probably don't want to watch this with the kids though, as it starts out and sets the tone with a literal bang.
 
Mayans MC has finally made it to UK TV on the BBC. EVen better they put all 10 episodes out on the streaming service so I managed to watch the first couple.

I loved Sons of Anarchy but towards the end I thought it got a bit... terrible and lost the run of itself. This seems to have the same mad moments but the tone is a little more settled so far. Enjoyed it.
 
I don't know how many people have Amazon Prime but if you do and don't find the Prime Video app too frustrating to use I'd highly recommend checking out the show Catastrophe. It's 4 British seasons so only 24 episodes but it's very funny and the 4th and final season, which just wrapped up, did a very good job of dealing with the loss of Carrie Fisher.
 
Also, I guess I'm kind of interested in the board's opinion on this. Right now I have Netflix at 16 a month or whatever it is and I have Amazon Prime which works out to 10 a month and I have Crave or whatever TMN turned into for HBO stuff and during the football season I subscribed to DAZN which I think was 20 a month.

To me, that's basically my limit. 40-55 bucks a month. With news that both Disney and Apple are launching competing streaming services that they're going to invest heavily in do people out there really think there's going to be any appetite for people paying for a half-dozen streaming services? Or is this just the textbook definition of a bubble that's going to burst in the near future?
 
It's a good question. I have no answer, but have been struggling with it. My wife and I are paying for full cable service and internet and are seriously looking to cut ties and save some money as we're a fairly low income family. We pay for Netflix ($13 plan) and have had Amazon Prime for a couple of months. We're already beyond our limit with all of that. Our next move is to cut cable, though I'm having some anxiety over that. Realistically, I only watch the History channel and network TV (primarily for hockey and some other shows.)

Without cable, I'd probably be in the same frame of mind as you: $40-50 in streaming. Maybe 3 video streaming and a music one? Though in truth, I'm completely fine listening to ads on Spotify.
 
Someone is going to come together to unite the whatever number of streaming service kingdoms under one united banner.

What I'm working towards is sort of a timeshare with a group of trusted friends: I've got Prime, someone else has Netflix, someone else has Crave, etc. and we pool our respective resources that way. Like a digital commune.
 
Bullfrog said:
Without cable, I'd probably be in the same frame of mind as you: $40-50 in streaming. Maybe 3 video streaming and a music one? Though in truth, I'm completely fine listening to ads on Spotify.
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Yeah, I didn't even count Spotify. I guess it says something that by virtue of Prime I have access to Amazon's music streaming service and I've genuinely never even opened it.
 
herman said:
Someone is going to come together to unite the whatever number of streaming service kingdoms under one united banner.
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Nah. Or, if they are, they'll only do so if they can effectively charge the same thing. None of these companies are interested in saving us any money.

I think that what's more likely is that you'll get 6-8 big players in the game try it out but only 3 or 4 will survive and gradually get a little bit as they pick up content from the ones that go the way of Google Plus or the Zune.
 
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
Someone is going to come together to unite the whatever number of streaming service kingdoms under one united banner.
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Nah. Or, if they are, they'll only do so if they can effectively charge the same thing. None of these companies are interested in saving us any money.

I think that what's more likely is that you'll get 6-8 big players in the game try it out but only 3 or 4 will survive and gradually get a little bit as they pick up content from the ones that go the way of Google Plus or the Zune.
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That's more likely, yes.

Some services (Apple TV app) are just going to try to mask the various interfaces under their own umbrella and manage your subscriptions with those services in its ecosystem.
 
I subscribe to Sportsnet Now and Netflix.

I did have TSN GO but just canceled because their NHL coverage is over.

I watch the CBC ap for news.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Also, I guess I'm kind of interested in the board's opinion on this. Right now I have Netflix at 16 a month or whatever it is and I have Amazon Prime which works out to 10 a month and I have Crave or whatever TMN turned into for HBO stuff and during the football season I subscribed to DAZN which I think was 20 a month.

To me, that's basically my limit. 40-55 bucks a month. With news that both Disney and Apple are launching competing streaming services that they're going to invest heavily in do people out there really think there's going to be any appetite for people paying for a half-dozen streaming services? Or is this just the textbook definition of a bubble that's going to burst in the near future?
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I doubt their price stays the same but at 6 (probably 10 Canadian) it?s hard to complain too much about Disney given that they own like 2/3 of all media
 
L K said:
I doubt their price stays the same but at 6 (probably 10 Canadian) it?s hard to complain too much about Disney given that they own like 2/3 of all media
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Sure, but I haven't seen anything that says that they're going to offer the entirety of what Fox has on their streaming service. I think all they've announced is that it'll be the place for Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars/Disney movies and whatever original stuff they create under that umbrella. 

If it eventually includes things like The Simpsons and and everything through FX and so on then, yeah, that'll be a crazy content library.
 
Nik the Trik said:
L K said:
I doubt their price stays the same but at 6 (probably 10 Canadian) it?s hard to complain too much about Disney given that they own like 2/3 of all media
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Sure, but I haven't seen anything that says that they're going to offer the entirety of what Fox has on their streaming service. I think all they've announced is that it'll be the place for Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars/Disney movies and whatever original stuff they create under that umbrella. 

If it eventually includes things like The Simpsons and and everything through FX and so on then, yeah, that'll be a crazy content library.
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The entire run of The Simpsons will be available from day one on Disney+

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/the-simpsons-streaming-disney-plus-1203187595/
 
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