koreth
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- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Finds New Home At Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation 1 year ago:
I don’t think Netflix actually cancels shows after two seasons any more often than other networks do.
Somehow people got it into their heads that Netflix is far more cancel-happy than its competitors, but if you look at the numbers, traditional TV networks have had like a 50% cancellation rate for decades. If Netflix is more prone to canceling shows at all, which I’m not convinced is even true, it can’t be by an enormous margin.
- Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 17 comments
- Comment on Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch 1 year ago:
It’s not new, though. For example, here’s a Variety article from 2019 that uses it that way.
- Comment on Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch 1 year ago:
“Streamer” has been a widely-used entertainment-industry term for streaming companies for years. It’s not a new thing people are making up to be cute.
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
lobste.rs is an interesting case study. On the one hand, it sucked to want to join and be unable to! I was in that boat for a while. And it is also disappointingly low-volume; it can be hard to get much of a discussion going just because the user base is so small.
On the other hand, when a discussion does get going, it has easily the highest signal:noise ratio of any technology message board I’ve ever participated in. Very few low-effort posts, and a high percentage of well-thought-out, respectful conversations.
I’m not saying I think lemm.ee should follow this model, but it’s not without its merits.
- Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? 1 year ago:
lemm.ee is actually hosted in Estonia and its admin is Estonian, so that one at least makes sense.
- Comment on The Afterparty is more fun than I expected 1 year ago:
Totally fair! That doesn’t particularly bother me but you’re right that he does that.
My opinion of the second season is mostly thanks to the mini-movies being more creative. I also enjoy Ken Jeong and John Cho.
- Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 5 comments
- Comment on The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans 1 year ago:
My intuition is that it’s probably in about the same range as the broadcast networks, but I have no numbers to back that up.
I don’t think it can be significantly higher or lower: if the cancellation rate were significantly lower, “streaming services always cancel after 1 season” wouldn’t have caught on as a perception, and if it were significantly higher, it wouldn’t be as easy to find multi-season streaming shows as it currently is. But is it slightly higher or lower? I have no idea.
- Comment on The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans 1 year ago:
I actually did run some numbers on this at one point and found that the cancellation rate on network shows has ranged from 30-50% for the last 70 years, with the average number of seasons hovering just under 2. Reddit post with graphs and sources.
Running the same numbers for streaming services is trickier, and I couldn’t figure out a reliable way to get a good data set to analyze. But even so, the numbers for broadcast TV are high enough that it would be numerically impossible for streaming services to, say, be 3 times more likely to cancel a show after one season.
- Comment on The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans 1 year ago:
It is unfathomable to me that people act like streaming services invented the concept of canceling series after just one season, or believe that it’s a new practice. Broadcast TV has regularly done exactly the same thing for its entire history. Streaming services almost always at least release all the episodes rather than leaving some of them unaired.
- Comment on The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans 1 year ago:
As I understand it, that’s been the Hollywood jargon for streaming services for years.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War" 1 year ago:
Not just by the time of Kirk. He’s already gone by the time of “The Cage.”