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CordKillers: Ep. 229 – So Darn Comfortable Con
Recorded: July 23 2018
Guest: None

Intro Video

• Cast/Author of The Expanse thank the fans

Primary Target

• Here are some of the movie and TV trailers to come out of San Diego Comic-Con 2018
• Aquaman Trailer, opens December 21.
• First Trailer for Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters, coming to theaters, May 31, 2019
• Disney is bringing back Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  – A new season of 12 additional episodes of The Clone Wars via Disney’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, which is expected to launch sometime next year.
• Trailer for Matt Groening’s New Netflix Series, Disenchantment coming August 17
• Marvel’s Iron Fist season 2 will begin streaming on September 7th
• The first trailer for Nightflyers, the George R.R. Martin space horror show coming to SyFy this autumn
• Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 coming early 2019
• Star Trek is getting a series of standalone mini ‘Short Treks’ episodes
  – Also a series of 10-15 minute shorts on CBS All Access, including one on Harvey Mudd, Ensign Tilly, Lt. Saru, and a man stranded on a deserted ship.
• First trailer arrives for GLASS the UNBREAKABLE / SPLIT sequel in theaters January 18
• Shazam in theaters on April 5, 2019
• Venture Bros. Season 7 comes to Adult Swim August 5
• Get a Look Behind the Scenes at the Making of Good Omens coming to Prime Video next year
• The Man in the High Castle’s third season debuts October 5.

How to Watch

• DC’s streaming service will be a one-stop shop for its TV shows, movies, and comics
  – DC announced at San Diego Comic-Con, DC that its streaming service DC Universe will launch this fall as a hub for all things DC, with content, comics, an encyclopedia, and a social platform for fans. DC Universe will cost $7.99 a month or $74.99 for an annual subscription. Subscribers who preorder will get an additional three months for free. DC will bring five original shows to the platform in conjunction with Warner Brothers, in addition to existing live-action and animated works.

What to Watch

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Getting Rebooted, With an Emphasis on Diversity
  – Joss Whedon to executive producer a reboot of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer with a new young diverse cast.
  Monica Owusu-Breen, whose previous writing credits include Alias, Charmed, and Agents of SHIELD will write.
• Netflix and Shonda Rhimes reveal eight exclusive series in the works
  – Netflix announced 8 shows in development with Shonda Rhimes.
  – Alleged con artist Anna Delvey
  – Adaptation of the 2010 book The Warmth of Other Suns detailing the flight of African-Americans north from 1916-1970
  – Adaptation of Kleiner Perkins’ Ellen Pao’s memoir Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
  – Based on Julia Quinn’s Regency England feminist romance series.
  – Pick & Sepulveda set in Mexican California in the 1840as.
  – Adaptation of The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.
  – Sunshine Scouts – half hour comedy series about teenage girls at a sleepaway camp who survive the apocalypse.
  – Hot Chocolate Nutcracker documentary of Debbie Allen Dance Academy’s award-winning reimagining of the classic ballet.
• Netflix announces its first Mark Millar titles
  – Netflix announced the first titles from Millarworld:
  Jupiter’s Legacy:
  An original series about Golden Age superheroes having kids…and those kids becoming angsty millennials.
  Empress:
  An original film about a space Empress on the run.
  Huck:
  This movie wonders if the greatest super power is just all the friends we made along the way.
  Sharkey:
  Adapted from an upcoming comic, a film about a bounty hunter. In space. Named Sharkey.
  American Jesus:
  A comic-turned-Spanish-language TV show about a boy who may or may not be the second coming of Jesus.
• Amazon Orders Sci-Fi Series ‘Tales From the Loop’
  – Amazon has given a series order to “Tales From the Loop,” a science fiction drama from “Legion” writer Nathaniel Halpern, based on the art of Simon Stålenhag, whose paintings blend elements of futuristic science fiction with images of rural life in the Sweden.
• Hulu’s Mars drama ‘The First’ debuts September 14th
  – Hulu’s “The First” starring Natascha McElhone and Sean Penn and developed by Beau Willimon, premiers September 14. It follows the first human Mars mission.
• The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Comic-Con Footage Was Absolutely Amazing
  – Sony showed but didn’t release a trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which hits theaters December 18. (Features Miles Morales, Gwent Stacy, Peter Parker AND more sipdeys from other universes like Spider-Ham (voiced by John Mulaney), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn), and Spider-Man Noir)

What We’re Watching

• Brian: Sorry to Bother You, Deadwood, Won’t you be my Neighbor, (halfway in to Preacher)
• Tom: Sorry to Bother You, The New Legends of Monkey, Deadwood, Preacher
• On the Lookout: Last Chance U

Front Lines

• Disney fires ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director James Gunn over ‘indefensible’ old tweets
  – Disney cut ties with James Gunn and he will not be directing Guardians of the Galaxy 3. A series of old tweets from Gunn referencing pedophilia and rape resurfaced online this week. Others tweets, which have since been deleted, included satire about 9/11, AIDS and the Holocaust. Thursday Gunn wrote, “Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor.”
• Senate wants emergency alerts to go out through Netflix, Spotify, etc
  – Senators in Hawaii and South Dakota introduced a bill (the “Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement,” or READI, act) that would “explore” broadcasting alerts to “online streaming services, such as Netflix and Spotify.”
• Survey: 5.4 Million Americans Will Cut The Cable TV Cord In 2018
  – Management Consulting firm cg42 is the latest to put put a study that says cord-cutting is on the rise. cg42 projects 5.4 million more people will cut the cord in 2018 in the US for a total of 18.8 million cord-cutters. The study surveyed customers and cites frustrations with lack of reasonable rates, getting nickled and dimed with fees and new customers getting better deals than existing ones.
• Comcast concedes to Disney in bidding war for Fox assets
  – Comcast withdrew its offer to purchase most of 21st Century Fox, leaving Disney in position to acquire everything except the broadcasting network, Fox News, Fox Businss, FS1, FS2 and the Big Ten Network which will be spun off into their own company. Disney also previously agreed with regulators to sell off the Fox Sports Regional Networks it will acquire as part of the deal. Meanwhile Comcast will focus on acquiring Sky which is 39% owned by Fox.
• Netflix redesigns its TV interface with new navigation, full-screen trailers
  – Netflix is rolling out a redesign to its TV-based apps over the next few months. A ribbon menu on the left side will now contain Search, My List, and separate sections for Movies and Series as well as a section called New.
• Walmart is reportedly building a video streaming service to take on Netflix
  – Sources tell The Information that Walmart is considering offering a streaming video service for $8 a month matching Netflix’s cheapest plan and less than Prime Video’s standalone amount. Walmart currently offers free streaming video with ads through it’s Vudu service.

Dispatches from the Front
Hola gents (and lady guest?),
I’d like to thank you guys for a number of show alerts, mostly courtesy of Bryce. Not everything in his wheelhouse is my flavor, but he seems to find serials early that we haven’t seen and enjoy.
If you guys haven’t talked about Letterkenny yet, you should go watch it. The first two short seasons are available on Hulu. It’s Canadian dry humor full of puns and stereotype characters. It doesn’t waste time with backstory we don’t care about and just rapid-fires the funny.
Give it a shot and see what you think.
Keep cutting them cords, fellas,
– Dan and Emily

 

 

 

Hello to all – one thing I’ve been thinking a lot is a way to watch shows without having to have a month to month membership with the different services considering that most services allow you to watch their whole catalog. For example I would pay Netflix in Jan and catch up on all the shows during that month, then cancel it. Feb I pay for Hulu and watch the first two seasons of Handsmaid, catcha few othe shows them cancel it. HBO on March, cbs all access in april, etc.
Or what about an AI like you guys tak about that just gives you the algorithm (ala traveling salesman) that computes the best course to take to hit the most shows you want to watch while paying the least per month.

Love to hear your thoughts.

– Arturo

 

 

 

Hey Tom, Brian, and guest,

It seems like everyone compares Netflix and HBO to each other, but I don’t think that’s the right approach anymore. It seems that Netflix no longer wants to be HBO; they want to be your entire cable package. They now have original programming that target so many niches they cover most of the major basic cable channels. Because of this, I don’t think Netflix cares about people criticizing their garbage programming – it’s essentially just a channel you’d never tune in to!

Keep killing those cords,
– Andy

 

 

 

 

About the listener who wrote in last week about wanting to have in-progress, “themed streams” – I think he is on to something. For horror fans, the streaming service Shudder broadcasts a constant stream of its content on rotation dubbed “Shudder TV“. In fact, you don’t even have to be a subscriber to access it. If you do subscribe however, you can switch between several sub-genre “channels” of Shudder’s content. Because it comes up as soon as you start the app, I’ve found myself getting interested in movies that I haven’t seen which I may not have otherwise chosen. I can always pull up the on-demand version in the app to get the beginning later. Its an easy way to discover new content without searching through titles, summaries and trailers.

Love the show – keep up the great work.
– Tim

 

 

 

What I think Netflix (and perhaps other streaming services) needs is an “I feel lucky” button that will just “pick something” that its algorithm “knows” you’ll like based on your watching history, etc. Don’t like what it picks? Hit next and it could pick something else for you.

Or at least that what *I* would want! I’m not keen on dropping in, in the middle of a movie, TV show, etc. That’s one reason I watch everything via streaming, DVR’d, etc.

Later!
– Michael

 

 

 

I subscribe to some movie trailer channels on YouTube. I frequently see movies I would LIKE to watch later, but I am not aware of a service that’ll let me “tag” movies that haven’t even hit theaters yet that I’d like to see whenever they’re available (especially on streaming). Do you know of such a service?

Thanks!
– Michael
 

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• filmfed.com

Links

2018 Summer Movie Draft
patreon.com/cordkillers

A streaming service for the sports apathetic, why people watch Netflix in the bathrooms, and Twitter tries to win the 24 hour news game. With special guest Kristi Kates.

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CordKillers: Ep. 196 – You Might Be Part of the 7%
Recorded: November 20 2017
Guest: Kristi Kates

Intro Video

• The Force Awakens is NOT a Remake of A New Hope

Primary Target

• Philo non-sports Pay TV service
  – Philo launched this week
  – Streaming service from A&E, Scripps, Discovery, AMC and Viacom
  – Base for $16 a month, Extras for $20 a month
  – Web, Roku, iOS

How to Watch

• People watch Netflix at work and in public bathrooms 
  – Netflix commissioned survey
  – 37,000 adults between late August and early September
  – 67% of people watch TV and movie in public
  – planes, buses, commuting most popular
  – 26% said binged shows at work.
  – 7% worldwide admitted watching TV and movies in public restrooms
  – Mobile makes up 10% of its viewing though half of users stream from phone during a month

What to Watch

• Amazon’s Philip K. Dick anthology series will go live on January 12
  – Amazon’s Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams arrives Friday, January 12. (Steve Buscemi, Bryan Cranston, Anna Paquin, Terrence Howard, Maura Tierney, and more star in the anthology series)
• New trailer out for A Wrinkle in Time which hits theaters March 9.
• Netflix to produce TV series with Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan
  – Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan will produce (but not act in) a new 8-episode Netflix series called Bard of Blood. [[A young Shakespeare professor living in the Indian hill station Panchgani who must return home to save both his country and the woman he left behind.]]

What We’re Watching

• Brian: Serenity, , 30 for 30: Nature Boy, Last Week Tonight’s
• Tom: Serenity, Mr. Robot (306), Orville
• Kristi: Thor: Ragnarok, Inhumans, Serenity
• On the Lookout: No Activity

Front Lines

• Amazon denies that it’s developing a freemium version of Prime Video, despite report
  – Responding to an AdAge report that Amazon was considering launching a free ad-supported version of Amazon Prime Video, an Amazon spokesperson told The Verge: “We have no plans to create a free, ad-supported version of Prime Video.”
• Vimeo now supports HDR videos
  – Vimeo announced users can now upload video in HDR and at resolutions up to 8K. The service also now supports 10-bit video and a wider color gamut. HDR playback will work on most new mobile devices with an HDR display as well as on the Apple TV 4K.
• Bloomberg’s Twitter-based news network launches December 18th
  – Bloomberg is launching a 24-hour news network on Twitter December 18. Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, TD Ameritrade, CA Technologies, AT&T and CME Group are all investing between 1.5-3 million each.
• FCC approves TV technology that gives better pictures but less privacy
  – The US FCC approved a new over the air standard called ATSC 3.0 which allows broadcasters to geolocate TV signals, transmit Ultra-HD and allow for more interactive programming. ATSC 3.0 can target broadcasts, including advertising and emergency alerts on a street by street basis. Broadcasters will be required to continue the current system alongside the new system for 5 years. No current TVs support ATSC 3.0.
• How to find the TV channels you want online
  – ReCode has a tool where you can put in channels you want and it will show you which online streaming services carry those channels. It compares DirecTV Now, Hulu, Philo, PS Vue, Sling TV and YouTube TV.
• Fullscreen Media is ending its subscription video service in January. Fullscreen launched in April 2016 for $6 a month.

 

Dispatches from the Front

 

I would like to points out that when you use MoviePass to artifically inflate points that it’s the movie theater that loses out because you are getting stuff for free

– John

 

Tom and Brian,

Just finished listening to Episode 195 in which you read an email from Joshua where he says he buys tickets using his Moviepass everyday just to rack up loyalty points. A quick look at the Moviepass terms of service shows that is in fact against the TOS.

One of the items that they list as a reason to terminate your account is:

(ix) On more than one occasion during any thirty (30) day period you do not view the movie for which you purchased a ticket with your MoviePass Card in its entirety.

I’m sure you’ve gotten several emails on the same subject, but I just thought it was worth a mention. Moviepass seems like a great deal and I am getting ready to sign up, and I would hate for everyone to lose it because some folks aren’t playing by the rules.

Thanks

– Don

 

 

So I have to reverse my opinion that I tweeted to Tom and Brian earlier about MoviePass. It was a great company when it was $40 a month. The price cut and expansion with $10 a month has thrown all levels of customer service they used to have in the trash.

As someone who works in customer service I’m a little less lenient in this area than some (I broke relations with a game developer from poor service regarding $15.) but my partner and I have two different problems and they won’t respond to either of us. I have my card and no way to activate it and my partner has an activated card but no physical card. We have tried Facebook, Twitter, instagram in addition to the in-app chat support and email and no response from the company at all. It’s been a rather disappointing experience since the business model changed for MoviePass.

– Jeff

 

 

Hello Valued Employees (and guest),

So I’m wondering what you think about the idea that Netflix is ahead of the game in international distribution, with the key being their Netflix Originals brand.

With shows such as Peaky Blinders, The Expanse and ST Discovery all being branded “Netflix Originals” outside of their home territories, it seems like Netflix is playing the long game worldwide to increase their prominence and their mindshare with audiences, while the other big media companies still haven’t risen their eyes above the horizon and are just obsessively squabbling over the US domestic market.

TL;DR Netflix is focusing on the rest of the world, discuss!

Thanks for a great show – keep up the good work and maybe you’ll get those xmas bonuses!

– Micky

 

 

 

Hey there, just a small note on CW shows on Netflix. Tom had said that the previous season is available the day the new season starts. However, they show up 8 days after the season ends:

Netflix and the CW Confirm New Licensing Deal for All Scripted Series

Sorry if 400 people pointed this out! 😀

– Rob

 

Links

2017 Winter Movie Draft
patreon.com/cordkillers

Netflix is more expensive, the Stephen King visual universe expands, and less TV on Google Fiber. With special guest MikeTV.

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CordKillers: Ep. 190 – The Sidekick: Bevin
Recorded: October  9 2017
Guest: MikeTv

Intro Video

• Very weird tv spot for blade runner 2049

Primary Target

• Netflix Raises Its Subscription Prices
  – Netflix raised prices of two of its three plans by $1 a month. The basic single screen plan stays at $7.99. The two screen “standard” plan goes from $9.999 to $10.99 and the 4-screen 4K “Premium” plan goes from $11.99 to $13.99. New customers get the new prices now. Existing customers will be informed by Netflix soon and see it on their bill in November.

How to Watch

• Google Fiber Drops Cable TV Package For New Cities
  – Google Fiber announced that for its upcoming launch in Louisville and San Antonio markets, it will only offer internet service, with no TV package. Last year, Google announced that Fiber would halt future deployments, making these two markets the last confirmed committments to roll out the service.

What to Watch

• Justice League Trailer
• The Second Half of Amazon’s The Tick is Coming to the Rescue This February
• The First Trailer for Marvel’s Runaways Is All About Very Evil Parents and Their Very Upset Kids
• On The Man in the High Castle’s New Season, the Nazis Want to Conquer Another Universe
• Watch Hulu’s first teaser for Stephen King’s ‘Castle Rock’

What We’re Watching

• Brian: The Vietnam War (ctd), Blade Runner 2049, Born Rich documentary
• Mike: Stranger Things S1, The Wire, Wonder Woman, Spiderman Homecoming
• On the Lookout: The Good Place

Front Lines

• Hulu Is Making the Jump Into eSports With a New Original Series
  – Hulu announced Monday it is ordering four new original esports series from ESL. Shows include a debate show called Player V. Player, a documentary series following the team Immortals called Bootcamp, a chat show called Defining Moments and a recap show called ESL Replay.
• If Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Goes on for Years, We Could See the Same Story Adapted Over Again
  – If Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Goes on for Years, We Could See the Same Story Adapted Over Again
  Speaking at a press event during NYCC, David Kanter, EP of Amazon’s coming PKD’s Electric Dreams anthology said that the show, if given enough seasons, could potentially retell the same story from different writers. Writer and EP Ronald D Moore said that a treatment he wrote for an episode based on PKD’s “Exhibit Piece” was “so far removed from the original source material that if another writer came in and read the exact same piece, it would bear no resemblance to what I did. “
• Netflix’s next original is a personal kind of superhero story
• CBS will stream nine ‘Star Trek’ episodes this year instead of eight
  – CBS will stream nine ‘Star Trek’ episodes this year instead of eight. CBS is moving one of the 7 episodes to air in January to the first half of the season (“chapter”) this year. The ninth and final episode of this season’s first chapter will debut on Sunday, November 12th.

Dispatches from the Front

Hi guys, just wanted to let you know that as an old guy, I enjoyed Blade Runner 2049, but apparently it is a failure because only old guys like it. But on a related note, why do the studios fail to promote the sequels that seem to be so endemic these days by pushing the previous films in a series on the streaming platforms. Blade Runner is a great example since, though I find it hard to imagine, so many have never seen the first film. Another example was the Kingsmen sequel; I saw the previews for the Golden Circle several months ago, and had never heard of the original. I had to use my Netflix DVD subscription to get a chance to see it.

Without a TV or cable, I can’t see whether I would want to spend money on seeing either show, but without seeing them, I won’t spend the money to buy them on Amazon. Shouldn’t there be a better way? Or should I just wait till they show up on Prime or Netflix?

Keep up the good work

– Dave

 

 

 

Hey Bri,

I signed up for Movie pass when they dropped the price to 10 dollars a month and loved it initially. I could use their “E-Ticket” feature at my local theater. Meaning I could pick my seat and buy the ticket from my house without ever using the MasterCard they shipped to me. It was great and I’ve seen more movies in the past 3 weeks then I did in the last 3 months.

Till… something change… They apparently lost the deal with Goodrich Theaters that allowed E-Tickets and now every theater in my area requires me to buy the ticket within 100 yards of the theater. The love is now gone… I like picking my seat and planning ahead of time and I’m willing to go to the theater less and get the best experience (picking my seat… etc) for the big movies than get some second class access to the smaller films while their in theaters.

So I cancelled my membership – which you can do directly from the app so no complaints there. But its just not worth it, even at 10 bucks a month. I mght start it back up again if they get the E-ticket feature back but until then… I’m out.

Thought you and Tom would like the input – thanks for the show(s)!

Sincerely,
– Norman

 

 

 

hey, I have no idea whether anyone else has been similarly affected, a google search turned up nothing, but while looking over my credit card bill I noticed that I had been charged 3 times in September for Filmstruck. Twice on the usual billing day, and then once again on the following day. I used the chat option from the Filmstruck help page and they immediately resolved the issue and refunded two of the charges. I don’t always go over my monthly transactions and very easily could have missed this, so I was thinking there’s probably a lot of other subscribers who (if this isn’t just something that just happened to me) might never know they’ d been overcharged.

Thanks! Love the show 🙂
–James
 

 

 

CBS All Access and Big Brother

One aspect of CBS All Access I think is missed often in discussions is the inclusion of Big Brother Live feeds. For years CBS has been selling access to the feeds and have a faithful audience for them. One Year ago they ran a Special Season of Big Brother over the top which was only available on CBS All Access. So for those customers everything else is Value add.

Still debating on if its worth it to watch the New Star Trek.

– Scott
 

 

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2017 Winter Movie Draft
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