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nothing on Apple+ has been watchable, it's impressive how bland and mushy they made all this content they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on

it’s a very odd proposition. i’ve read every rationalisation going for the existence of apple+, and none of them seem to make any real business sense. as a standalone subscription service, the content isn’t there to justify the cost. as a bundle-in for hardware (1 year included), i don’t see it making any difference to people who were going to buy the hardware anyway.

milo's right, the beastie boys thing had the best clips in the credits and it's what I have enjoyed most

+ makes sense as a sweetener to buy a device for the free entry but it's not very sweet

nothing on Apple+ has been watchable, it's impressive how bland and mushy they made all this content they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on

it’s almost as if you can’t engineer good drama as is it’s a polycarbonate screen

at the very least, it's the cheapest of all the services right now at $50/year

Apple has enough cash to just shut it all down and call it a day, write off the loss whenever they feel like it. but like Quibi it's hard to see... why did they even bother?

quibi is fascinating whichever way you look at it. you’ve got a service which (until this week) has been deliberately locked to mobile phones; you’ve got a free three-month trial which very few people took up; you’ve got katzenberg saying quibi is failing because of the coronavirus (disputable); you’ve got a quibi fan podcast called ‘quibiverse’ being threatened with legal action by quibi for using quibi’s name without permission; you’ve got the same podcast rebranding as ‘streamiverse’ with a new mission statement to take the piss out of quibi five times a week; you’ve got a podcast called ‘streamiversity’, a ‘streamiverse’ fan podcast; and in the midst of that you’ve got quibi itself, which offers content such as:

• a show in which people have a meal fired at them from a cannon, and are then given 30 minutes to replicate that meal
• a show in which architects and interior designers build luxury dog kennels
• a sitcom in which dan harmon’s sex doll comes to life and helps a screenwriter win contracts (mentioned upthread)
• a home renovation show in which the homes were once murder crime scenes
• a show about obscure pasta shapes
• a dance show in which the dance floor jerks around until the dancers fall on their arses
• a feelgood show in which famous people give money to a recipient who then must give half that money to someone else in a heartwarming fashion
• a daily weather show which conveniently gives you the weather for generally the whole of america in just seven minutes

i'm kinda curious which of those you made up

quibi really does feel like a multi-billionaire made a lot of coked up phone calls and then rather than admit he did that, he started a network

otm. i can’t wait to read the book on the failure of quibi, which should be out by august

the netflix doc about it will be great

a two hour special in 17 instalments

i see what you did there

Liiike...I really only got as far as learning that Quibi was a streaming service for smartphones only and said 'wow, that's really fucking stupid' and moved on with my life. Assuming if I thought it was that stupid that it would probably wind up being wildly successful because that's the way the world goes. But reading more about it (thank u AA) it seems like a venture deliberately constructed to fail as catastrophically as possible.

Is it really such a dumb idea to start a service that specializes in professionally produced short form video? They didn't just pull the idea from their ass. I'm sure there's mountains of data about how long people usually watch YouTube, average item view times etc, and they thought - what if we did short form properly, with real formats, rather than a bunch of jackasses challenging each other to eat a hot pepper or something. Where it feels like they fucked it up is that they've commissioned a bunch of absolute toss.

that and the fact that it’s extraordinarily difficult to watch something on your phone even for 7 minutes, because phones are what a lot of us use while we’re watching telly

Anyone start "I Know This Much Is True" on HBO? What a joyless exercise in darkness. Dunno if I'm going to stick with it after the first episode.

Is that the one from Derek Cianfrance?

If so I've got the first episode to watch but haven't got around to it yet

It sounds absurdly grim

That's the Wally Lamb adaptation with Ruffalo playing twins. I read the book in high school I think; I recall it being absurdly grim.

Remember when Steven Spielberg was like "FUCK Netflix, that shit ain't cinema." and he went on to develop a show for fucking Apple + and a Quibi show that you can only watch at night

Spielberg thinks only films released in theatres should be eligible for Oscars, and yet he made a TV SHOW called AMAZING STORIES that won 500 academy awards! I'll wait here until he gives them all back.

i've been chortling over quibi since it was announced. was a little afraid they might find a way to not screw the pooch but all playing out as expected. watching internet pioneer jeffrey katzenberg and entertainment legend meg whitman get clowned by tiktok is already like a billion dollars worth of entertainment

re: i know this much is true, i <3 rufalo but the source is the Most Oprah's Book Club Shit Ever and uh nope

if cinemas reopen and have to show old stuff for a year, I'd go and watch Spielberg's 1971 Columbo episode, shit is dope

had no idea that was on YouTube. many thanks

Ok, The Great on Hulu is excellent; it's 1000% more enjoyable than the Helen Mirren Catherine miniseries that was on HBO and bored me to tears.

oh good! i was looking forward to watching that.

wish Night Flight would add more old episodes. I have already watched all 8 that they have up there, a couple >1x!

xpost I think Columbo can be streamed on Amazon, but it's also available to stream for free on ... some other service besides youtube.

the biosphere 2 documentary on hulu - spaceship earth - is a delight. it feels pretty biased towards the weird hippie almost-cult that built the biosphere, but i really enjoyed watching it.

scored by frequent ilxor owen pallett

oh i didn't even catch that

yeah otm it was v good!

Quibi's lineup is unreal
they have a judge show where the judge is......... Chrissy Teigen

yep. where have you been

missed opportunity to resurrect Mock Trial with Judge Reinhold

xpost I think Columbo can be streamed on Amazon, but it's also available to stream for free on ... some other service besides youtube

IMDB TV, which for some reason is a thing, and also the conduit for Columbo to appear on Amazon (it plays with ads in the ad breaks). The Columbo youtube channel shuffles a handful of episodes in and out periodically, as I understand it.

xpost we're going to all feel foolish in the future when people are referring to 30 and 60 minutes shows as extended-Quibis and maxi-Quibis, and movies are known as many-Quibis-sewn-together

Has Jeffrey Katzenberg ever had an actual good idea in either art or business, or had a detectable hand in overseeing any work of moderate quality? Geffen at least had shown good A&R instincts in the '70s

he wasn't responsible for the disney renaissance. maybe moving dreamworks to 3D animation only.

clearly not a good idea for art (taking commercial children's entertainment on its own terms as art), dubious whether making the films look more generic and become more expensive to make in terms of manhours, render time and electricity stands as a good business decision

it's something a normal exec could put on a resume, or a Katzenberg could get written up in profiles, sure

quibi rebooted reno 911, so there’s that

actually, not a reboot so much as a whole new series of the original show

good

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— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 22, 2020

yeah i saw an ad on TV for a new season of Reno 911 and i got excited but then I saw it was on Qubi, so oh well guess not

White Lines on Netflix is diverting and entertaining although the lead actress is annoying as is the actor playing her missing brother. It's stupendously dumb the way Outer Breaks is and even shares an almost identical scene with a boat.

I tried watching Medicis but i couldnt get into it

I think maybe i will go back to Narcos and pick up where I left off

Random tweet @Quibi is DOPE...

— Ja Rule (@jarule) May 25, 2020

yesterday I watched a short film on Night Flight called Junior High School that boasted a young Paula Abdul but also featured a baby Ira Kaplan!! That Ira Kaplan!