Only Fools and Horses it should have been left alone after the 1996 Christmas specials but no they had to do 3 more that added nothing and ended the series on a downer.

That doesn't change much if the effects or post production is done elsewhere. Live shooting is a tiny part of production especially for modern shows.

Looking at who produces it which includes an Israeli company I wonder if it gets subsidies by the Israeli government for home grown production.

That may make it cheap enough to use as filler.

Because lets be honest all network shows are filler when not airing the NFL.

Because free time is valuable and people don't want to waste it watching crap.

Remember it used to be if ratings fell hard enough on network shows they would be pulled from the schedule within 6 episodes or less never to be seen again.

WBD, AMC, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Netflix have all cancelled completed seasons as tax right-offs in the last 3 months.

https://deadline.com/2023/01/write-offs-completed-seasons-tv-series-experts-weigh-in-on-trend-1235242805/

Well congrats on never being hired by WBD again I guess?

Probably other media companies as well since who wants to deal with bad press over shows no one watched?

You subscribe to Netflix for a month to binge the 8 episodes of Wednesday but you stay subscribed to watch the 170+ episodes of Seinfeld or what ever long running sitcom or drama they are licencing at the time.

The same with Disney+ having The Simpsons, Family Guy etc.

Seindfeld has consistent viewership its going to be just as viewed in 2023 as it was in 2022 while Wednesday will need to wait for a second season.

In 2022 Seinfeld had 19.3 billion viewing minutes on Netflix (https://twitter.com/TVGrimReaper/status/1618712254454837248) That's 8th place for the year of shows on Netflix and beats Wednesdays 18.6 billion minutes.

Netflix agreed to pay $100 million a year for 5 years for 176 episodes or less than $600,000 an episode per year.

I don't know Wednesday's cost but unless season 2 releases in 2023 it's not going to chart in 2023 while Seinfeld will and will continue to do so for each of its 5 years.

That worked when they had huge cable TV revenue from affiliate fees and advertising.

With the decline in cable TV revenue they need a replacement that was supposed to be streaming but it takes 6 streaming customers to replace 1 cable TV customer.

The other way is to massively downsize to a third of their current size to copy Sony and just licence shows but that does have consequences like massive layoffs, reduced share price and less money to take chances on new shows and films unless they are owned by a company with diversified revenue streams.

Network broadcast TV exists because of the NFL the rest is all money losing filler and has been for the last 5 odd years.

Cable TV will continue as long as people pay for the bundle even as new scripted content on cable TV disappears for cheap 'reality' TV.

If the writers go on strike its going to mainly affect streaming services that rely on constant new scripted content.

It was pulling between 400 and 600 million minutes of viewing in a week across all episodes released at the time.

In comparison a CBS drama like FBI pulls in 600 million minutes of viewing or 10 million viewers with Live+3 days and is for only a single episode.

Disney+ had over 46 million US domestic subscribers during Andors run (unknown total with password sharing).

CBS is available to just over 122 million households in the US.

Build up was fine when the choice was 'do I watch the 8:00PM drama on ABC, NBC or CBS' but today you have near limitless entertainment options and you really need a hook for the first episode and then do longer character pieces later.

I watched the first two episodes of Andor was bored all the way through so went and spent my very limited free time to do something else. Maybe if I was in school/college still or unemployed I would have continued but working 5-6 12-18 hour shifts every week limits my free time and just browsing the internet like this is just more relaxing since I'm not locking myself in to any site for an hour.

What so the issue is they flew in English speakers for a documentary targeted to English speakers rather than use subtitles? how is that a problem.

The Bahamas is a country with a smaller population than a mid size town in some countries so considering how that even in the USA shark specialist scientists aren't that common even in a country with over 80,000 times its population.

What are you talking about this isn't about Warner not making animation it's about selling it to other distribution platforms because they can't afford a money furnace like HBO Max without a rich sugar daddy like AT&T to pay for it.

It's why Sony doesn't do streaming and why Disney is also seeing its share price collapse streaming just doesn't make money.

She was CEO for less than 3 months and only joined AMC in 2021.

Because AMC jumped on the streaming bandwagon so hard they have 8 different streaming services.

Hell, 4 longer running AMC shows aren't even owned by AMC. Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Preacher are owned by Sony and The Killing was a 21st Century Fox and now Disney owned show.

AMC owns 8 streaming services that's a lot to divide up their rather meagre catalogue.

All the broadcast and cable channels have become crap because their owners are all focused on streaming which while it is the future is also a massive blackhole of money.

The channel owners complain about cable cutting as they themselves kill their own channels by depriving them of content.

What incredibly popular 21st Century Fox properties?

Looking at $100+ million domestic grossing 20th Century Fox films since 2008

Disney already bought Star Wars and Marvel.

Independence Day 2 crashed and burned.

The Taken, Die Hard, Alien and Predator franchises have been milked to death.

Blue Sky got shutdown.

Dreamworks animations distribution deal ended, and they got bought by Universal.

The Alvinn and the Chipmunks licence ended and is up for sale (Paramount is the expected buyer).

That leaves Avatar, Planet of the Apes and Night at the Museum.

Which shows you don't know shit.

Theatrical marvel is good for Iger's ego but basically couch cushion change to the bottom line.

Disney makes the real money with the Theme Parks and ESPN cable affiliate fees.

Disney vastly overpaid for 21st Century Fox and has nearly 4 years later little to show for it.

It's new content that drives subscribers to streaming services not old catalogue content.

LOL no chance Apple buys Disney why the hell would they?

Apple's largest acquisition in its 46 year history is Beats Electronics for $3 billion.

To go from that to a $250+ billion purchase of Disney is insane.

Broadcast TV will be around for decades to come just like OTA radio is still around.

Cable TV will be dead by 2030 unless cord cutting comes to a sudden halt.

That Sinclair owned stations have been airing ABC for years and that not doing so would mean many parts of the US would no longer get ABC.

I got the first two films as a birthday present from my parents when I was 13.

They just knew it was an 18 rated anime and at the time while anime may have been violent there wasn't any porn anime released in the UK so they just thought it was another violent action one oops.