Imdb ratings are nonsense

It’s more a kids teens show isn’t it?

Also it needs to be said that tobacco products in most of Asia and are generally quite inexpensive, even relative to their local economies.

One of the big things that lessens tobacco consumption is dramatically increasing the price, usually through taxes, which is what you see in a lot of the western world.

There’s also the “cool” factor. The coolness of smoking is far less in the west than it was 100 years ago, 50, even 20. But in most of Asia, it’s still pretty cool—and coolness in Asia is arguably more important than it ever was in the west.

Want to feel even better? That 80s show was better than That 70s show, but no one watched it. It starred a Golden God

It’s been the same development hell of ups and downs for a decade or whatever.

Maybe in some version of Tron 3 that never was. The movie was alive and dead probably a dozen times

Yeah this is what makes it so depressing. Great IP, great movies, the new one was just a lot better than it needed to be and soundtrack is still banging.

But it just doesn't show them the money, especially at the high production cost

Who do you think they made this show for? It was clearly aiming at a more conservative, more rural audience base.

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>Thanks for the detailed answer. I’m really interested in reading about these kinds of things (the business of the entertainment industry? Not sure how to call it). I have a couple questions after reading you answer:

You can look into some materials on media distribution and content acquisition, plus some basic media finance stuff should help you do a bit to learn. Its unfortunately though one of the things that is semi-secretive, so many learn on the job. Generally stay away from production related things other than just to get a basic understanding, the stuff we're talking about is distribution.

>Is watching a show on an Ad-version of the streaming site worth more to them?

There is no single, uniform answer to this unfortunately. It can be all over the place depending on all sorts of factors

>If a show was recently added to another service, is that a sign that the original one may get rid of it from theirs or value it less? For example, I really like this show called The Orville. They just got added to Disney Plus even though they’re labeled as a Hulu Original (it originally aired from Fox). I’m confused if this interaction has anything to do with the future of the show and season 4.

Ok, so you could have just asked this one... this was your actual question -- anyways, Orville seems to be an outlier in that it has some complicated contractual situations stemming from the Disney purchase of Fox, no one appears to be entirely sure what the deal with the show is. What we do know is that The Orville is supposedly a pretty expensive show to make and that getting S4 together may be tough as all the actors options expired. There's odd stuff with this one, you picked one show that as an extreme outlier, so a lot of the metrics and things we're talking about arent potentially as important as a variety other factors going on with this show behind the scenes.

Distributors (streaming or not) have very detailed data on how users interact with their platform. The big thing here, is what they are watching and who the person is watching it. Generally you look at hours viewed (over a certain timeframe) but there are lots of metrics you can spin depending on the specifics, and if its ad supported or not and lots of different variations on hours viewed based on other criteria as well, such as Average Audience and some other more complicated but fairly industry standard metrics.

Its a very very complicated process, but in short, they evaluate how much its being watched, who is watching (as in are more valuable customers watching this vs less valuable ones), when they are watching it (do they watch it within the first week or is it something they do later which isn't as good)

They then try to figure out if the show is worthwhile, if they ax it, will these people cut their subscription? If they renew it will they keep it? Will having this content renewed get more customers? Will it help keep some customers?

And then cost which is most important -- you put money amounts on each option and see how it looks. It needs to make sense economically. Even a poor performing show might make sense if its inexpensive or has their best customers watching. A fantastic performing show may be crap if its not fantastic enough or people don't really watch it on release or it comes for their lower-tier users which aren't very valuable, and more. It always comes down to the money and everything at the end needs to be reflected in dollars

There are a nearly endless amount of ways to spin and no two shows or companies are gonna be the exact same, its a mix of art and science and a lot of assumptions and data.

And no, netflix is not in anyway "better" than others, they are actually long regarded as the worst in the industry at this stuff.

There's also plenty of contractual and political stuff going on behind the scenes though, don't discount any of that. They may have hard numbers, but in the end they negotiate and there's more going on than a single show in a bubble, so its a lot of things to look at, not just a few numbers, but how does it impact other things as well.

ITs not new. Remotely piloted aircraft aren't a new concept, its just way improved recently with technology and affordability. Taking the pilot out of any craft has long been discussed. Commercial Airlines would LOVE to have pilots not have to be physically in the airplane, it would make ops much much more effective and cheaper-- until something goes wrong, and it will.

"Need" is the wrong word.

We WANT humans in the loop. In fact many commercial and military aircraft are flown almost entirely by computers, they can even take off and land without humans -- however we want a pilot in the loop in case anything goes wrong and for the events we can't predict or aren't yet able to create a good and safe enough computer for.

Just to defend OP a bit, there's been a increase of potentially bot-like posts that look "normal" across various subreddits for the last couple weeks that have gotten some users suspicious, and reddit seems to promoting more self-posts than normal, even ones that haven't been upvoted. So, unusual activity is happening and many users are noticing it. That being said, the old default subs have always had issues with bots, but those were generally link posts, this may or may not be related.

I'd rather have TV discussion than the bots auto-posting every vareity/deadspin/marvel article in existence seconds after the twitter feed posts it

The Red Dawn remake I believe sat around for a few years. It was supposed to be a quick turnaround but didn't get release for like 3ish years

I know Fanboys was delayed as well, but I don't think it was delayed that long, it did however basically get =recut into a fairly different movie

Just as a very important aside. The "foot" in football from the original game, not the american one, was not about realted to 'feet' or kicking. The "foot" was that it was played on foot vs being played on a horse, like polo.

Football, was a ball game played on foot, not a game played with your feet. That makes sense now to think that there became a lot of different variations of games called "football" each with their own history.

>I'm rewatching Fringe, and it feels so weird how many small, tiny roles there are

They even got Eric the Actor

He must need money.

Terms and conditions here are meaningless. Its just self-imposed rules, as the owner of the platform, they can take any action they choose for any reason, there is no legal reason they cannot do this. They are specifically choosing not to.

They could shut them down if they wanted. They own YouTube. They can do anything they want. There is no barrier for them to act in any manner they choose. They can and do take channels down and need not provide any reason.

Who said they are NOT tracking them? Who said authorities do not know who they are and that google and others are working with them? I don't think we know that so can't make any assumptions.

MCU is actually a bad example here. Because generally directors are tied to a single property there (like say Black Panther or Thor), which isn't on a breakneck timeline. MCU all exists in the same universe, but its not really a franchise in the same manner. Additionally MCU just kinda does stuff different than anyone else since its less of a director-focused/owned project.

For your suggestion, a thing like Star Wars 7-9 is more a valid thing as these are all sorta happening at the same time so they need to divide the work to get it on time.

I assume you're talking about movie franchises.

You might not want the same director for each movie. Maybe you want to switch up the tone or style. Maybe a sequel is really different than the original. Maybe the director wants too much money to come back, maybe the director wants to leave to other projects, maybe the director sucks and you want them gone

Is there benefit to consistency? Yes in some cases, sure, but there's also benefit in change.

Lastly, in fast movie franchises, there's realistic time considerations. These can take a really long time to make and many people simply don't want to devote 5-10 years of their life to a single project.

Companies lay out their rules in a document that says "these are the rules". Its generally pretty standard corporate stuff, of course, these rules can also be changed, especially by the person with the most votes... There isn't some independent authority, the company is in control of its owners, outside of any govt regulatory body rules to be followed.

By legal process, I mean, if you're doing illegal stuff you may be able to be kicked out, its all a case by case basis.

You would be able to win any vote. So it would have to be something other than that, like doing illegal things that may force you out or perhaps other shareholders doing nefarious things purposefully causing harm or crazy shit.

Pretty much when you get into these situations, some weird or illegal stuff needs to happen to push you out involuntarily.