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munchman sees BARELY FAMOUS
And even though it’s funny in that dry, unfunny way all new sitcoms are funny, I’m disappointed.
Can’t help but wonder why in this day and age something called BARELY FAMOUS isn’t, you know, a little more bare…?
What’s the matter, VH1? Never heard of truth in advertising?
Web Series: “Winners” Really Is
Best comedy series we’ve seen in a long time – on the web, TV, wherever.
You’ll be glad to checked this one out:
Everything you need to know about Winners – within reason, anyway.
More Stuff We Wanted to Repost Here But, um, Didn’t
Some recent articles from other websites on TV, TV writing, and the TV biz that we think y’all should know about:
Severed limbs and intertextuality: your guide to Endeavour’s hidden secrets
by Andrew Collins
Another Way to Look at the Future of “Television”
The latest on the ongoing evolution of the home entertainment paradigm. (Well, what else are we supposed to call it? Ain’t really just “TV” anymore, is it?)
by Nellie Andreeva and David Lieberman
It’s not easy being an indie standalone channel in the era of cord-cutting and “too much TV.” Participant Media learned that the hard way, moving in to pull the plug on its three-year old network Pivot TV, writing off a $200 million initial investment and further tens of millions in costs.
Cord-cutting “continues to dominate investor outlooks,” RBC Capital Markets’ Steven Cahall said this week. Pay TV providers– cable, satellite and telcos — lost 665,602 subscribers in Q2, according to researcher Bruce Leichtman.Their annual rate hikes have become risky as consumers, especially Millennials, warm to low cost alternatives including Netflix. Many cable owners fear that cord cutting and shaving will accelerate when they face planned live streaming services from Hulu and AT&T’s DirecTV — and possibly Apple.