To continue from yesterday's post, ever wonder why you can't have unlimited data with your mobile phone? Or why it's not at a reasonable rate? If you're in the states, unlimited date simply faded away - did it ever exist in Canada?
So along with the networks going over the top and streaming services being the new networks/studios, we see that Bell Media is now getting their streaming service up and running. Bell... you know, the former phone company.... who charges a premium for all that delicious content data that you'd now like streamed to, say, your phone. Yep. Those data charges on top of your streaming charges are starting to make cable tv seem downright affordable...
Read about Project Latte - really? We're aligning with Starbuck's now? Of course, the link to GMO connection does seem apropos...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Interesting times we live in....
I know, where have I been... busy...
Anyway here's news that Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and David E Kelley are partnering for a .... wait for it.... TELEVISION series - limited to be sure, but ON TV! The move of A-listers to "television" continues. BUT is it really television anymore? I say it isn't really the television we grew up on or what we think of it traditionally. Here's just some of the evidence:
1. they're all on board for the project but no NETWORK has yet signed on. Networks are not necessary to television anymore. Network television is what television has always been seen as - the low level, bastard child of film.
2. It's all about premium cable and streaming. Who would have thought 2 or 3 years ago - hell even a year ago - that Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon would be the big players of CONTENT on television???
3. Kelley isn't even affiliated with a network nor does he have an over-all deal from a studio. What this really looks like is that CAA - the talent agency that reps all three of these big wigs - is really the power behind brokering this deal. It seems obvious that someone at CAA had the bright idea of getting these three together... Let's keep it all in the family as it were...
Yes. It's a brave new world out there in tv land... Exciting times, my friends, exciting times...
Read the entire Hollywood Reporter coverage for the deets. I'm not making this shit up....
Anyway here's news that Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and David E Kelley are partnering for a .... wait for it.... TELEVISION series - limited to be sure, but ON TV! The move of A-listers to "television" continues. BUT is it really television anymore? I say it isn't really the television we grew up on or what we think of it traditionally. Here's just some of the evidence:
1. they're all on board for the project but no NETWORK has yet signed on. Networks are not necessary to television anymore. Network television is what television has always been seen as - the low level, bastard child of film.
2. It's all about premium cable and streaming. Who would have thought 2 or 3 years ago - hell even a year ago - that Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon would be the big players of CONTENT on television???
3. Kelley isn't even affiliated with a network nor does he have an over-all deal from a studio. What this really looks like is that CAA - the talent agency that reps all three of these big wigs - is really the power behind brokering this deal. It seems obvious that someone at CAA had the bright idea of getting these three together... Let's keep it all in the family as it were...
Yes. It's a brave new world out there in tv land... Exciting times, my friends, exciting times...
Read the entire Hollywood Reporter coverage for the deets. I'm not making this shit up....
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