We're Children

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We're Children
Number 298
Broadcast Date January 27, 2020
Episode Length 54:41
Hosts Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt
Guests Merrill Barr

Peacock launch slate, Netflix leans into The Witcher, and Game of Thrones prequel news. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Merrill Barr.

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Primary Target

NBCUniversal's streaming service will launch April 15 on Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Flex video platforms before a national launch on July 15.
There will be a free ad-supported version called Peacock Free with 7500 hours of programming, next day access to current season NBC shows and curated content like SNL, Vault, and family movie night. Peacock free has most of the library but not all the episodes of Peacock originals.
A full content version called Peacock Premium goes for free to Xfinity and Cox cable subscribers and $5 a month for others. It includes live sports, early access to late night shows and full catalogs of whatever NBC has the rights to including currently airing shows and Peacock originals.
You can get Peacock Premium without ads for $5 a month if you're an Xfinity or Cox cable customer and $10 a month for others.
When you launch the service, video will start playing, maybe a live game or news or another show. You can then choose channels, browse or trending along with more traditional movies, tv shows, kids, sports, news and Latino.
Browse will be rows of categories starting with continue watching and new additions. The trending section will be news, sports and entertainment clips. Channels will look like a cable guide. Some shows like The Office will also have their own dedicated hub.
NBC will also launch a worldwide news channel with Sky News called NBC Sky World News available on Peacock.
PEACOCK ORIGINALS
Hatching Twitter - doc series based on book by Nick Bilton
The Adventure Zone - animated comedy about a D&D troupe. Based on a popular McElroy podcast.
Magruber - based on SNL character from Will Forte.
Clean Slate - from Norman Lear about a car wash owner in Alabama whose trans child returns home after 17 years.
Expecting - Mindy Kaling show about a woman who becomes a mother with her gay best friend.
Division One - An underdog women's college soccer team gets a new coach.
Girls5Eva - Reunion of a 90s pop girl group produced by Tina Fey
COMING: Battlestar Galactica, Saved by the Bell, and Punky Brewster

How to Watch

Netflix beat expectations overall in Q4 but fell short in the US due to increased competition. Worldwide, Netflix added 8.76 million subscribers for a total of 167.1 million. Its fastest growing region was Asia-Pacific where it added 1.75 million. Netflix added 520,000 subscribers in the US, short of its expected 600,000. Financially it reported stronger than expected revenue of $5.47 billion and earnings per share of $1.30. Analysts had expected earnings of 53 cents a share. Netflix expects to add 7 million subscribers worldwide, below the 8.82 million projection from analysts.
Netflix also has started citing viewer statistics based on a shorter amount of viewing time. A "watch" was previously reported as completing 70% or more of an episode or film. This time, Netflix reported 76 million households chose to watch The Witcher and 83 million chose to watch Michael Bay's "6 Underground." Choosing to watch is defined as starting a film or episode and watching at least two minutes.
Reed Hastings once again said Netflix would not do ad-supported content. “Google and Facebook and Amazon are tremendously powerful at online advertising because they’re integrating so much data from so many sources. There’s a business cost to that, but that makes the advertising more targeted and effective. So I think those three are going to get most of the online advertising business.”
Netflix also gets to talk about how it doesn't exploit users because it doesn't have to track them as much.
Netflix announced an animated spinoff The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. Julia Alexander at The Verge suspects the Witcher and 6 Underground could become Netflix's first franchises.

What to Watch

HBO said His Dark Materials racked up a cumulative 5 million viewers thanks to co-viewing, basically when a family watches a show together. Casey Cloys said it was HBO's biggest co-viewing show yet. The second season is in production and HBO and BBC are evaluating whether to order a third season. Bad Wolf which is producing the show would like to split the third book into a third and fourth season.
HBO's House of the Dragon will arrive on HBO sometime in 2022. Referring to the Long Night prequel written by Jane Goldman that HBO shelved, HBO head Casey Cloys said, "One of the things about House of Dragons, there is a text, there is a book so that made it a little bit more of a road map for a series order.” Martin has written one of a planned two Fire and Blood books upon which House of the Dragon is based.
While Studio Ghibli titles will come to HBO Max in the US, Netflix has acquired the rights to 21 Studio Ghibli films for all of its regions except Canada, Japan and the US. Netflix will subtitle the movies in 28 languages and provide new dubs for up to 20. The first release comes to Netflix February 1 with the rest coming March 1.
Apple will premiere three new series at the SXSW Film festival in Austin this March. A documentary called "Beastie Boys Story" from Spike Jonze, an animated musical series from some of the folks behind Bob's Burgers and Frozen, called "Central Park." And a docuseries from the creator of Chef's Table called Home about innovative houses.
Hollywood Reporter says Marvel has cut its Howard the Duck and Tigra and Dazzler animated shows which were supposed to come to Hulu. The animated MODOK and Hit Monkey will still come to Hulu as will live-action Helstrom.

Eyes On

Front Lines

Writer Hoseein Amini has reportedly left Disney+ series Obi-wan and the show is now delayed. Ewan McGregor confirmed that shooting had been moved to next year saying, “We just pushed the dates. (Rise of Skywalker) came out, everyone had more time to read the stuff that had been written, and they felt that they wanted to do more work on it. It’s not nearly as dramatic as it sounds online.” Debora Chow is still attached to direct.
Disney+ will launch on March 24th in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland, a week earlier than originally planned. The streaming service will cost £5.99 per month or £59.99 a year. Disney+ launched in the US and Canada in November, and previously launched in The Netherlands as a testing ground for the platform.
YouTube TV has become the first TV service to arrive on PS4 since Sony announced it was shutting down its own PlayStation Vue service as of January 30. YouTube TV costs $50 a month, the same as Sony's cheapest PlayStation Vue plan.
A recent Gallup poll found that the library was the most frequent cultural activity outside the home in the US with US adults taking an average of 10.5 trips to the library per year. That's just about twice as frequent as the second most popular activity, going to a movie theater for a movie at 5.3. Seeing live sports was 4.7.
CBS says January set a record for subscriber sign-ups to CBS All Access, beating the previous record set in February 2019. Back then CBS had the Super Bowl. This month it had the Grammys and the premiere of Star Trek: Picard.

Dispatches From The Front

Hey Killas.

You were joking about "redhead discrimination" on TV.

You laugh, but it's a thing.

Or at least, it's a thing for comic book adaptations.

Take, for example, Iris West-Allen (nee Iris West) who, in the Flash comic book is portrayed as a redhead. On TV, she's played by Candice Patton, who is not a redhead. Nor is her brother Wally (aka kid flash) redheaded.

Jimmy Olsen on Supergirl, once a nebbish, nerdy redhead is recast as a suave African American.

Starfire on Titans? Still has hair that bats in the red direction, I guess....

MJ in the new Spiderman (no, the new new spid...the new new new spiderman) has lost her red mane (as well as her personality, but that's beside the point).

Scott Lang (Ant Man) ain't no redhead. Nor is Jim Gordon on Gotham. Roy Harper on Arrow, Hawkgirl in the Arrowverse...even little orphan Annie.

There are a few notable exceptions. Archie Andrews is a redhead on Riverdale. Sophie Turner has red hair as Jean Grey in the latest X-Men Movie. But it seems that comic book redheads are being deliberately and systematically eliminated.

So I ask you (tongue planted firmly in cheek): What does Hollywood have against redheads?

- Trent

What are your thoughts on Dabby, a $400 tablet with its own voice assistant and web browser that automatically finds shows you want and keeps track of your subscriptions.

- Torrent


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