Before Fringe, we watched Firefly and the followup movie, Serendipity.
One of these days we'll watch The Adventures of Brisco County Junior again.
Posted on 06/10/2022 2:44:39 AM PDT by Libloather
Nielsen is launching a new product aimed at shoring up the accuracy of its TV ratings system: a series of datasets meant to quantify a program’s “bingeability,” along with a show’s propensity to keep viewers coming back for more episodes down the line. The ratings giant explained in a statement Thursday that streaming services and major networks could each use this data to figure out which shows are better at wooing new viewers or retaining old ones.
These insights are coming courtesy of a metadata-centric company called Gracenote, which Nielsen acquired back in 2017 to provide its clients with “deeper analytics.” In practice, that means tallying how “bingeable” a season of Game of Thrones might be (“Very”). As the company noted in a press release from 2019, this also means labeling that season’s mood (“Dark” and “Gripping,” according to Gracenote), and classifying the kind of talent that’s onscreen (the press release specifically notes “Dragons”). Two years later, Gracenote debuted another offering built to measure how “diverse” that season of Game of Thrones might be, by tallying the number of “identity group’s” like Black or LGBTQ individuals among the leading actors.
The company’s bingeability measurement is based off “the average number of TV show episodes watched per day to measure consumer tendency to view multiple episodes in a row.” The new “Distribution Dynamics” dataset will pull people’s video viewing habits from all those devices to measure a shows’ inherent bingeability, Nielsen said. A shows’ ability to draw “loyalty” from viewers, meanwhile, is judged based on “the number of minutes and percentage of available content viewed per month,” which Nielsen says shows “how likely viewers are to continue watching a program.”
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The only problem with “bingeable” shows is you have to wait until an entire season, or show, completes.
You might wind up hearing, or reading, something that ruins the conclusion.
Do you really take it that seriously?
Does it matter that much?
You’re engaging in mind reading.
You assume I take it “that seriously” with zero clue of what I think.
Maybe I’m referring to other people and their thoughts that I’ve heard.
Maybe I’m referring to the article from a neutral standpoint.
Do I even have cable?...
The last three shows I binged out on were Car 54, Amos ‘n Andy and Highway Patrol. There are great, forgotten Hollywood gems out there. Oh yeah, Dante’s Inferno, great stuff!
Where do you even find those?
Probably out at 10 or so. I watched. I can’t imagine most young could sit there. The chairman was a bore and Cheney spoke forever. I’m 53 and quit after the capital police and documentary guy answered their life story. That was it. The ratings might be high for the first 15 minutes and fall fast. The ratings for the rest will tank.
“Hello...my name is moovova and I am a bingeholic.”
“Hello, moovova.”
Were there a lot of close ups of cops telling their story, then “bursting” into tears, like Boehner used to do?
Decoy and Naked City are two I have run across.
Before Fringe, we watched Firefly and the followup movie, Serendipity.
One of these days we'll watch The Adventures of Brisco County Junior again.
Those are all sci-fi, correct?
So glad I don’t watch TV.
I have been binge-watching my old CDs of “The Wire”.
I had watched it all before years ago—but one of the advantages of getting old is I forgot almost all of it.
;-)
It is even better than I remembered it—there is no way it could be made today, there are a thousand little details that are wonderful touches—way too politically incorrect in so many ways....
I watch the older shows on Pluto TV and subscribe to Youtube video channels made by amateurs and pros that are more entertaining then anything on network tv.
#11 I was flipping thru the channels and saw some familiar faces and thought it would be nice to watch Stargate SG-1 but was disappointed when it turned out to be ‘Firefly’...
They had several of the same actors in both shows : )
I don't remember anyone from one show being on the other. Stargate is another we've binge watched. Been a few years now so maybe we'll watch it again later this year.
I’ve never wrapped my head around spoiler fear. If it only works with things as a “surprise” then it’s not rewatchable. If it’s not rewatchable it’s probably not really worth one watching.
The Stargate series had several main actors from Firefly
Morena Baccarin played Inara in Firefly played Adria in SG-1’s tenth season.
Jewel Staite played Kaylee in Firefly and played a female Wraith and Dr. Jennifer Keller in Stargate Atlantis.
Ben Browder played John Crichton on Firefly and Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell on SG-1
Claudia Black played Officer Aeryn Sun on Firefly and Vala on Stargate Atlantis
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