Interesting. I have it for Yellowstone, but totally forgot about Star Trek.

I don't mean to make this about politics, but I think it's also notable that they went on to elect a well-known television personality to office, when they finally reached the peak of their power.

It's a generation of people born and raised in the shadow of Vietnam, America's first televised war and raised in the era of cable tv. Their whole lives revolved from the start to finish around televisions.

Three technically. 6666, 1883, and 1922.

Sidenote, I wish they would ditch the 4 numbers thing for spin-offs. It's cool but is going to get rel confusing if this continues.

Yellowstone also hit 15 million viewers for the new season premiere. It's going a bit under the radar among TV nerds, but it seems like Paramount is blowing up atm.

Might be watching the rise of a new HBO Now.

Nope. Don Lemon won't be laid-off.

I don't think you understand what Prestige means. It's not about ratings or spectacle, but farming industry awards to insinuate a premium brand.

Should point out as a sidenote, that Showtime's boxing promotions bring in pretty big numbers, often measuring in the hundreds of millions of dollars in PPV buys. (The record was $410 million for Mayweather vs Pacquiao that was a joint promotion with HBO and Showtime).

Now, all that being said they've obviously not reached the same levels of prestige as something like HBO, but that's irrelevant. Regardless of how well they perform, the entire point of showtime is that it's CBS's Premium network and longtime competitor to HBO.

They sort of have done this already, but as a premium expansion within Paramount.

I think the issue is that Showtime has a long history of standing on it's own, with it's own revenue model. It's also Paramounts prestige machine. I think there's concerns over disrupting what the do too much, given how good they are at it.

That or an effort to help sustain the film industry till their big plans (007) start materializing.

I remember seeing reports recently that theaters are struggling, not due to low turnout as much as too few films for patrons to buy tickets for. If theaters start closing that's going to really jam up their plans.

Yeah? Did you honestly think I was talking about a KD ratio? Are you insane?

Revenge would be not doing enough, allowing war to pop off again in few decades.

Also, there's a huge difference between going too far and adequately punishing those responsible. It has to be an even response with a nation building plan, or you get Germany after WW1.

I’m sure China would be interested in buying chunks of the Russia Far East. Russia is increasingly going to become more willing to sell it too, as everyone regionally realizes they may not be able told the territory.

Germany was in massive debt after ww2, same with Japan. The difference was a semi-permanent occupation by allied forces. In both cases US forces are still there, in the form of military bases.

The lesson of ww2, learned from ww1 is that a country can’t just be left to their own devices post world war, but needs a long term nation building investment and occupation to enforce it.

I'm guessing you don't know a lot about the Horn of Africa?

Strong disagree. Most of the money should go to the victims in Ukraine, not the people who enabled and knowingly looked the other way.

If anything, the Russian people should owe Ukrainians reparations till the country is rebuilt and every last Ukrainian veteran is alive.

The most recent article I could find noted an addition $30billion, around $330billion in total.

This is part of a global effort, lead by the US that includes a taskforce to investigate and tag Russian assets worldwide.

True. That did kind of make it worth all the human suffering and permanent destabilization of the region.

Not happening. The US did this already in Somalia in the 1990s and it ended catastrophically.

I feel like KNEW the show was doomed with S2 started and they brought back the wife, but killed her husband off screen. Their story was done, and it didn't need to be continued at all.

Boardain's show actually went on to HBO Max syndication heaven. So, you're probably right.

An interesting move, given that CNN has actually had some success with original series and films. Talking about Bourdain and their retrospective shows narrated by Tom Hanks, it seemed for a while like this was the only draw the network even had remaining.

Tbf there was a roll-out of wireless options that circumvented cable companies intentionally blocking development.

Source: I'm one of the people effected. I'm now on 5g Tmobile ISP.

I have no doubts that yours is awesome, but what concerns me is that nearly every time I've ran across a Pixel user organically their experience have been very negative.

I was almost a Pixel owner and the sub / reviews scared me off. Few weeks ago I saw a cool looking Pixel phone, liked some of what I saw, anddd.... then read all the constantly bad opinions from owners and users. Oof.

This is just a hunch, but I have a feeling Discover/warnermedia is monitoring the situation with Showtime and Paramount, to decide whether or not they'll do something similar with HBO.

What I mean by that is, Discovery + Warner content as part of a basic plan with HBO max as an additional package. Basically re-establishing the way HBO is distributed, to make it more like Cable.

In that scenario Hulu, Discovery, Prime, and Netflix essentially become the streaming equivalent of basic cable, each with their own premium network.

Everything about that final season was no good.

Real shame though, s1 was one my favorite shows recent years, but it was clearly struggling with any sense of direction beyond s1.