Digital Stream: Television News

[Dogg Thang]

Very easy to see how that bundle pricing doesn’t make a lick of sense on its own except in one way - it’s what people will pay. What it won’t do in any shape or form is pay for what’s on those channels.

[Neon Ignition]

I'm assuming Disney is thinking two things - 1) That most of the channels content is of high interest to consumers but also already exists meaning they don't need to over invest cash into new content compared to Netflix who are scrambling to build original content without any pre-existing to rely on and 2) the pricing makes them very disruptive to Netflix and other streamers and if it's balanced right and throttles the other services success then they can always jack up the rates later when they've taken the crown

[Dogg Thang]

Disney are already overinvesting from what I hear. Their new shows have giant budgets. And Hulu and ESPN are far from cheap to run. They have tied up a lot of rights that come with hefty price tags.

I don’t see anyone “taking the crown” here. It’s not going to be Highlander. It’s breaking a market which has yet to make back what it spends into smaller and smaller chunks.

[QualityChimp]

The Boys continues to be a fascinating watch.
Took down episodes 5 and 6 last night and they were loaded with gore, laughs, action and exposition.
I particularly enjoyed the "Jazz musician" line...

Interesting to see where the story is diverging from the comics and the pace at which it is moving - a lot faster.

I know it's been renewed for a second season, but have they planned how many seasons?

I'm worried they'll do the usual thing of having a successful first season, plan for lots of seasons, then season 2 is less successful and the series is cancelled.

[Neon Ignition]

But... we get Home Alone 6! Having seen Home Alone 5 I'm very keen to see just how much further that franchise can scrape itself past the barrels bottom

[QualityChimp]

The Boys last night:
"We're looking for a Frenchman and an English guy."

Wife to me: "I thought he was Australian?"

[Atticus]

Interesting to see where the story is diverging from the comics and the pace at which it is moving - a lot faster.

I know it's been renewed for a second season, but have they planned how many seasons?

I'm worried they'll do the usual thing of having a successful first season, plan for lots of seasons, then season 2 is less successful and the series is cancelled.

I had very similar thoughts/concerns, especially the amount of story content that's been covered/revealed so quickly, but my overriding feeling is that it's in good hands.

[randombs]

Preacher season 4 will be the last one so they’ll wrap the story up, which is nice.

Maybe they’ll do the same thing with The Boys.

[QualityChimp]

Finished The Boys last night and we both really enjoyed it.
It really diverged from the source material by the end - mainly for the better.
Great cliffhanger and I look forward to the second Season, but I think it'll be doing its own thing seeing how far they've veered from the source by the end.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/amazons-rings-series-to-have-long-seasons/

The first season of Amazon's Lord of the Rings series is looking like it will be 20 episodes in length, they are also free to tell the story they want as long as the show adhere's to the Second Age content Tolkien wrote and never includes anything from the Third Age.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/kevin-smith-to-showrun-he-man-sequel-series/

Netflix has confirmed Kevin Smith will be showrunner on animated series Masters of the Universe: Revelations which will act as a sequel series to the 80's cartoon. The studio behind the Castlevania series provides the animation and the show will focus on unresolved plotlines from the original run.

[Finsbury Girl]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/amazons-...-long-seasons/

The first season of Amazon's Lord of the Rings series is looking like it will be 20 episodes in length, they are also free to tell the story they want as long as the show adhere's to the Second Age content Tolkien wrote and never includes anything from the Third Age.

The rise and fall of Numenor should be awesome. Fingers crossed!

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/youtube-scraps-multiple-original-series/

The more that we see new streaming ventures launched, the more we're going to see failures too and leading that charge seems to be Youtube who are progressively shutting down their Original Series programmes. Having previous scaled back a few shows and their Premium service plans the site has now confirmed that they are cancelling Step Up: High Water, Wayne, Dark Cargo and It's a Man's World. Though not household name shows the first two have enjoyed 25-45m views for some episodes showing how hard services find to keep content afloat despite the audience size, the channel will try to find a new home for some of these if it can.

With these cancellations Youtube is now down to only having three scripted shows left in its library, Impulse and Liza and Demand are two lesser known shows so presumably at high risk in the near future, the last being Cobra Kai which is their biggest bonafide hit and so difficulty lies there with what to do with it. For now the third season is still happening and will be released via the standard Youtube site.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/apple-tv-targets-november-launch-pricing/

Apple TV+ will launch by November and will reportedly cost $9.99 per month. Apple is set to spend huge sums making a slim line of original content for the service so it'll be one of the leanest offerings available.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/disney-scraps-book-of-enchantment-series/

I think it's the services first publicly cancelled project as Disney+ has pulled the plug on Book of Enchantment. By the sounds the project was becoming too dark in tone and too expensive.