Nine of the 10 Most-Watched Streaming Programs Are Reruns (bloomberg.com) 51
Despite investing billions in new streaming services, media giants have failed to dethrone old favorites, according to Nielsen data. The 21-year-old legal drama "NCIS" tops the list, with viewers streaming 11.4 million episodes per week. Netflix dominates the top 10, with eight shows owing most of their viewership to the platform. Reruns from CBS and other networks make up the majority of the list, with "Stranger Things" being the only original series.
"Nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns. In addition to the three from CBS, there is one from YouTube (CoComelon), one from Canada (Heartland), one from Australia (Bluey) and Suits. The only original series to crack the list is Stranger Things," Bloomberg writes. However: "While reruns dominate the top 10, that is not the case overall. Most of the 100 most popular titles of the last three years are original series," it added.
"Nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns. In addition to the three from CBS, there is one from YouTube (CoComelon), one from Canada (Heartland), one from Australia (Bluey) and Suits. The only original series to crack the list is Stranger Things," Bloomberg writes. However: "While reruns dominate the top 10, that is not the case overall. Most of the 100 most popular titles of the last three years are original series," it added.
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Strong claims require strong evidence. Your gut feelings are not science.
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How is Trump's record with casinos? I hear those are impossible to sink.
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New Trek.
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TV has always been woke.
True. I credit, in part, my interest in going into electrical engineering from watching Barney Collier on Mission Impossible. As a kid, I thought all the gadgets he had were cool.
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Nonsense, the moral themes of the 60s were not the same as what we get now, not by a long shot.
Those shows enjoyed universal themes, and the politics that poked in was never allowed to replace complex, interesting characters, or entertaining plots. Now, the universal themes we all enjoy are considered an obstacle to identity politics and BuzzFeed style virtue signaling. The inmates have taken over the board room!
I mean, look at what they did to Snow White's seven dwarves when Peter Dinklage made a single
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tl;dr
times change and it scares me.
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tl;dr
times change and it scares me.
It's much better in the form of a song. [youtu.be]
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I guess Trump is just "times a changin'" then.
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TV has always been woke. (almost always, anyway. 1960's kicked it off with early doctor who and star trek.
And let us not forget this gem [imgur.com]. So "woke".
Hans Kristian Graebener = StoneToss
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Andy Griffith didn't feel the need to carry a gun as the town sheriff. Does that make him woke?
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No it just means he lived in a predominately white town.
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As you say, there was no need for him to carry a gun. It would have made no sense. Had he faced baddies with guns, yeah. But back then, the far left wouldn't have been allowed to influence the creative process in such a big way.
Even comic strip characters back then usually refused to kill largely so they didn't have to invent new characters every week.
But no, Uhuru was black, so we can create bland characters and ruin nearly all aspects of storytelling and it's the same thing, right?
Re: I guess the people have spoken (Score:2)
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They're also far less episodic without having interesting or likeable characters and stories. Instead of a personality, characters spew limited, politically correct dialog and must always be seen as good leftist ideologues at all times.
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I remember just several years ago when nearly everything new was amazing. I know, I've been partially bedridden for 15 years so I watch everything I can. But golden ages have to end, and something has to kill them.
Ideology did it this time. College campuses were always echo chambers, but the internet made that exponentially worse. Hollywood is just a window into a massive bubble.
Then Trump came along and gave them a justification let loose identity politics and any other anti-democratic impulse they cou
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boxes they check. It's no longer good enough to be black or a woman, you gotta check three boxes! Polotical ideology has replaced art! Just look at new Trek, what garbage!
Then you clearly haven't watched any of the old Trek series.
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Examples.
Re-watching Northern Exposure (Score:2)
Northern Exposure is on prime, I remembered it as a good show, but damn, it was really good. Not surprised the top shows are re-runs.
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Northern Exposure is on prime, I remembered it as a good show, but damn, it was really good.
Yup, just finishing up with season 2.
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It's a fantastic show. Someday I'm hoping to visit Roslyn WA where it was filmed.
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If memory serves, first couple seasons were great, then went downhill rapidly...
9 out of 10 (Score:2)
of new programs are just remakes or spin offs of the same old crap.
Makes sense (Score:5, Interesting)
Back in the olden times, writers wrote the show as it aired since there was no binge-watching. This allowed for feedback to be immediately integrated. Fan-favorite characters were put in the spotlight, characters that failed to get a following were killed off, plot threads that got boring were cut short... The most famous example of this is Breaking Bad's Jesse, who was supposed to get killed off in the first season, but pretty much became an icon.
But today, a streaming service orders 8 episodes, they get written, filmed and released in batches. Because of this, there is no feedback to be integrated. The show exits the writing room, having been created with the writers in an ivory tower, and goes straight to filming. If you look back to the old classic, all of them changed heavily as they run, often within the same season.
This can't happen with today's batch-ordered shows, and it shows.
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So, you are saying JIT (just in time compilers) are better than pre-compiled stuff?
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You make a good point and probably fair. However, this doesn't explain the success of many HBO shows which film all at once a season and were wildly successful (Sopranos, The Wire, Oz, GOT, etc).
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The "olden times" arent exactly perfect in that regard however.
More than one show has latched on to an idea generated from fandom - hell, in Battle Star Galactica (2003), the concept of the Final Five wasn't even a thing until the show runners cottoned on to the amount of fan speculation around the remaining unnamed human-form Cylons, but they quickly pivoted to it becoming central to the show and ditched their original concepts.
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Back in the olden times, writers wrote the show as it aired since there was no binge-watching. This allowed for feedback to be immediately integrated. Fan-favorite characters were put in the spotlight, characters that failed to get a following were killed off, plot threads that got boring were cut short... The most famous example of this is Breaking Bad's Jesse, who was supposed to get killed off in the first season, but pretty much became an icon.
But today, a streaming service orders 8 episodes, they get written, filmed and released in batches. Because of this, there is no feedback to be integrated. The show exits the writing room, having been created with the writers in an ivory tower, and goes straight to filming. If you look back to the old classic, all of them changed heavily as they run, often within the same season.
This can't happen with today's batch-ordered shows, and it shows.
I think they only do that when it's something like an 8-12 episode run. For network shows that have 20+ episodes I suspect they're still filming while airing.
But I think the bigger factor is simply runtime, NCIS has 463 episodes [wikipedia.org], that's something like 20,000 minutes.
Stranger things has 34 episodes [wikipedia.org], probably closer to 2,000 minutes. It takes a lot of Stranger Things bingers to make up for a single NCIS binger.
As for your claim about all of them changed heavily as they run, often within the same season I'd co
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Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is probably the other most famous example of this, where he was supposed to be killed in Season 2 but was so immensely popular with the fans that after occasional guest-reappearances he was eventually made into a permanent title-credits cast member on Buffy and subsequently Angel.
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Jesse kind of ruined Breaking Bad, if you ask me. His constant moral qualms were just annoying. I mean, giving all that money back? Really?
Simple Reason (Score:2)
Twenty years ago, they hired writers.
See, the Internet, e.g. the teenage punkass committee, convinced show business execs that writing wasn't a real skill. It didn't require any talent or education. Unlike engineering or being a science man.
It's not a real major. Art and writing are just playing with crayons, you see.
For a clue on how that worked out, take a look at the last half-dozen Disney scripts. Refusing to hire good writers cost their shareholders $172 billion in just under four years.
That's what goo
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Survivorship bias is real, so is the 90/10 rule (90% of everything made is garbage). However, while this is subjective and not at all scientific, it is worth pointing out that "survivorship" in this context tends to mean the things that we look back on and remember fondly. I don't remember much of the new stuff that I've watched over the last few years.
It's possible (perhaps even likely) that that's a function of age: when I was younger everything was new and so I was less critical. It's also possible that
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The counterpoint to that is Pixar. They had an unbroken string of megahits from 1995 until Brave in 2012. Since then Pixar has been a complete disaster.
You can almost pinpoint the exact moment in Brave when the executive committee overruled Brenda Chapman and destroyed the characters and the film. That methodology reached its peak when Disney deliberately threw a two-time Academy Award winning director under the bus and lit a quarter billion shareholder dollars on fire because Bob Iger didn't like Dick Cook
What does that even mean? (Score:1)
Does the term “rerun” even apply for on-demand streaming services? That usually refers to shows that are broadcast over the air any subsequent time after their original broadcast date.
I don't get it (Score:2)
What do they consider an "original series"? Wasn't every program an original series at one time?
Humans are dumb (Score:1)
how come there's so much new stuff then? (Score:2)
In other news (Score:3)
McDonald's sold the most hamburgers this quarter. Does that mean they make the best hamburgers?
Baddies East only gets better every rerun (Score:2)
Ever deepening grudges against fellow participants are a recipe for more action.