What TV Shows are you watching? ι', a perfect I.

"As with the Emmys, Shōgun won the most awards of the night. The show itself won best drama, while Hiroyuki Sanada took home best actor, Anna Sawai won best actress and Tadanobu Asano won best supporting actor. Of these, only Asano comes as a real surprise, since he was merely nominated for an Emmy last year. Nevertheless, his win is a nice surprise, since his performance – at first repellent, then oddly lovable – became the heart of the show."

Perfect!!! :thumbsup: :hatsoff:
 
And for the Shogun fans....Best Actress!


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Awards don't matter much, but it was neat to watch Demi Moore pick up her first acting award, considering how long she's been in the industry.
And The Substance rocks. :thumbsup:
Demi was certainly great, and she has done very good work before in serious roles (eg Margin Call).
The movie itself does have a gaping plothole, though ^^ (which we have discussed).
 
I plan to rewatch S1 of Severance. Although its last two episodes already were bad.
Just to be ready to post elaborately on how S2 is an absolute failure ^^
 
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem Netflix. Family drama series about life in Jerusalem in the 1920s and 30s under the British Mandate. I'm only partway through so it might go into the 1940s or beyond. Quite good.
 

Can you tell us how to get to Sesame Street? Iconic show's search for new home sparks concern for kids' TV​

There's been a worldwide decline in children's shows on traditional television as children take to YouTube

To quote its theme song, can you tell us how to get to Sesame Street?

Sesame Street, the iconic children's television show that hits generations of adults right in the nostalgia, is looking for a new distribution partner, placing a giant question mark over whether there will be new episodes after this year.

Warner Bros. Discovery announced last month it would not renew the show's contract with HBO and its streaming partner, Max. The show first aired on what would become PBS in 1969 and started airing on HBO in 2016. In 2020, new episodes moved off HBO to stream on HBO Max, since renamed Max.

The upcoming 55th season of Sesame Street this month will be the last to debut on the streamer, according to Variety, although Max will continue to license old episodes from the Sesame Street library through 2027.

The decision comes as Max pivots from children's content toward adult and family programming, the New York Times reports.

"Based on consumer usage and feedback, we've had to prioritize our focus on stories for adults and families," a Max spokesperson told the Times. "And so new episodes from Sesame Street, at this time, are not as core to our strategy."

CBC News has reached out to Warner Bros. Discovery for comment.

But this shift away from kid's programming isn't unique. Worldwide, there's been a decline in children's shows on traditional television, Craig Reed, executive director of the Tucson-based consulting firm TRAC Media Services, told CBC News Network last month.

"And that's not Sesame Street's problem. That's just the way it is," Reed said.

Networks Nickelodeon and Disney watched their ratings fall about 90 per cent between 2016 and 2023, according to Nielsen ratings reported on by The Wrap, Instead, kids are turning to YouTube, according to Nielsen's Media Distributor Gauge, which reported that in the month of July, kids and teens made up 28 per cent of YouTube's massive ratings.

In a statement to CBC News Network, Sesame Workshop, which produces the show, said it was looking forward to announcing new distribution plans in the coming months, "ensuring that Sesame Street reaches as many children as possible for generations to come."

A change in platforms​

Aimed at pre-schoolers, Sesame Street created Muppets like Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster that have become cultural icons around the world. The show has won more than 150 Emmy awards and is broadcast in some 140 nations.

But in recent years, children's television programming has become a tough sell. And what's happening with Sesame Street is representative of the challenges faced by kids content creators, J.J. Johnson, co-founder of Toronto-based kids programming creator Sinking Ship Entertainment, told CBC News Network.

"Sesame Street has kind of become a little bit of the canary in the coal mine," Johnson said. "Kids are obviously watching on different platforms. And so how do you find them where they're at?"

Meanwhile, YouTube offers an endless stream of shows like Ms. Rachel, Blippi and Cocomelon, TV reporter Kayla Cobb told CBC's Commotion podcast last month. YouTube content is also quick to produce, flashy, easily accessible, and available on phones or tablets, making it more appealing to kids and their parents, she said.

"So it's just a lot of factors that have come together to make this the new reality."

That's why Johnson says he thinks YouTube would be a "beautiful companion home" for the show.

"I would hope that YouTube is reaching out to them as someone that arguably has the largest kids audience."

What happens now?​

The end of its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery doesn't mean the end of the show. As Sesame Workshop noted, it plans to announce new distribution plans.

The New York Times reports that other contenders to pick up Sesame Street could include Apple TV+, Netflix and Amazon. Apple, for instance, already had a deal with Sesame Workshop where it aired three seasons of its show Helpsters.

And old episodes of Sesame Street are still available to stream on several platforms, including YouTube.

But to no longer have new episodes would be a massive loss for families around the world, Reed said. Part of what has always made Sesame Street so valuable is its up-to-date element, he explained, and how it tackles current social and cultural issues in ways kids can understand.

"That educational element, that entertainment value, that interest of what's currently happening in the world and in people's lives would be lost by using just older shows," he said.

Reed didn't want to speculate on who might pick up the show, but he said he was hopeful it would continue to move forward in some way.

"Sesame Street has been an astounding performer over the years," he said, noting that through his many years in the business, it has always been a top ranked show, even as other children's programming has come and gone. "Sesame Street just keeps cranking along."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sesame-street-hbo-1.7424666
 
??? I thought that Jim Henson's intellectual property had been absorbed by Disney for some reason.
 
??? I thought that Jim Henson's intellectual property had been absorbed by Disney for some reason.

Disney owns The Muppets; Lucas bought that IP from the Jim Henson Company in the 2000s.

He's always loved the show and characters. Yoda is basically a Muppet, given life by Frank Oz, who also gave life to several classic Muppet characters.
 
Oh yes, I know, which is why I wonder how they got into a deal with Warner.
 
Missing You on Netflix is a British cop thriller. 5 very good episodes if you like that sort of thing.
 
New from the recommendation mill: Interior Chinatown, on Hulu in the US. Presumably Disney+ everywhere else. Compared to Severance and Everything Everywhere All At Once. I'm adding it to my list despite not really liking either of those compared shows/movies. :lol:
 
If you like westerns, American Primeval on Netflix is an excellent short series. It's 1857 and Indians, Mormons, the US cavalry and settlers are all caught up in the turmoil.

Spoiler :

I have two complaints: First, they all used six shooter pistols. The show takes place in 1857 in Eastern Utah and the first production S&W six shooters were not introduced until late that year. The factory was in TN. Anyway, the gunfights would be much less dramatic without six shooters all around. Second, the triggering events of the story did actually happen, but they took place in southern Utah, not near Ft. Bridger in sw Wyoming. Oh well.
 
It started out fine enough with the premise of Gi-hun using his prize money to track down the recruiter and the island. That felt like the natural continuation to where the first season left him. I liked it less and less when it started repeating itself; I didn't think his plan to
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infiltrate the organization by joining the game again, made much sense. Nor did the 7th episode with its vastly prolonged gunfights. Those aren't the means with which Gi-hun beat the games the first time around; it felt so out of place, making it into an action set piece.

So yeah, I'm somewhat disappointed with how this turned out. I expected better from the same writer/director.
I disliked the last episode also but overall I liked the season. There were things I felt were very unrealistic/dumb but I thought it was worth watching if one enjoyed season 1.
 
Getting closer to finishing Lower Decks season 5. Paramount Plus wasn't playing nice with one of my extensions.
 
Do any of you subscribe to Sling TV (Blue)?
 
Do any of you subscribe to Sling TV (Blue)?
Nah..I only got Orange for a bit for the sports during football, since I don't use regular tv
 
I tried the first episodes of Constellation, American Primeval, The Recruit, A Man on the Inside, Interior Chinatown, Virgin River, and The Hunting Party. They were all fine. If any of them look like the sort of thing you're into, you'll probably like them. I don't even know what I want anymore. :dunno:
 
The Recruit is fun, but kinda dumb; for Spy-type stuff, The Old Man, The Diplomat, Black Doves and The Night Agent are all (much) better, and for other stuff by this writer, I liked The Rookie better (only seen S1-S5: S6 got to Disney+ a month or 2 back, but wifey's forbidden me from watching it until we can get our slightlySmartTV to talk to our phones again, so we can watch it together on the bigger screen).

She's binged the entirety of Virgin River, up to the S6(?) finale.

A Man on the Inside looked like fun, and has been on my To-Watch list for a couple of weeks now.
 
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