Posted on 02/22/2019 11:08:12 AM PST by EveningStar
The reboot of the classic episodic TV show The Twilight Zone will hit CBS All Access on April 1st, and with just over a month to go, CBS has released a full trailer for the series.
Get Out director Jordan Peele will host and produce the show, as heard in a surreal TV spot that aired during this year’s Super Bowl. This new teaser shows off a bit more of what to expect from this new effort: a series of surreal, unsettling episodes with a cast that includes Adam Scott, Kumail Nanjiani, John Cho, and Peele himself.
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“The audience for these broadcasts is old and passing away.”
most in nursing homes or headed that way, still coasting along from their habits from the 1950’s, religiously reading a daily newspaper and watching network nightly news ... and NOT being replaced by younger generations ...
“Would probably be an improvement over some.of the drivel on TV.”
possibly ... wouldn’t be hard to do ... but my guess it’ll be so shot through with leftist tropes and SWJ bullshit that it’ll still be nothing but leftist propaganda ... after all, it’s still CBS ...
“Streaming is killing broadcast TV almost overnight.”
indeed. if it wasn’t for football and one or two shows like “Goldrush”, i’d abandon satellite TV all together ...
Streaming is giving power to content providers who can pull that content at any time. Physical media is your’s forever.
People have been clamoring for ala cart menu for viewing - streaming accomplishes that. I have no interest paying for the food network or BET, so now I can cancel cable packages and buy only what I want.
I recently watched the whole series and it wasn't filmed in cheap grainy images, it was probably delivered and processed by things that could only provide cheap grainy images. They look like they were filmed in HD when you see them on Netflix or the ScyFi channel.
Even this was a high quality output of computer graphic of the era:
Those were all the rage back in the day.
And the best is yet to come; the current NFL and Power 5 conference college football contracts expire in about three years. Amazon and Netflix will likely make offers the league and the conferences can’t refuse.
NFL games and those featuring the Top 70 (or so) college teams will be gone from broadcast TV by the middle of the next decade. The only exception might be the NFL network, but if Amazon and Netflix offer enough, the NFL will be happy to let them televise the games and use the network as a promotional vehicle.
Don’t need to reboot “The Twilight Zone.” We’re living it.
The Twight Zone, season one, was filmed, FILMED, on high quality B&W, Kodak movie stock film. . . which is super-high resolution, high even than any 4K or 5K HD standard. Season two, except for a few episodes, to save money was videotaped at NTST 525 line scan. Season three and four went back to film. Most of what you see on TV today are unremastered original NTST 525 line broadcast recordings which are actually half that resolution due to the twinning of scan lines to keep the CRT phosphors glowing to avoid flicker on the old original sets. Color cut the data to 405 NTSC on screen lines and twinning scans to half that. So, yes, for those used to 1080P, it’s going to look a bit grainy. . . but some Twilight Zone episodes have been remastered from the original film and can be broadcast at full 1080P or 4K. Those that were shot to NTST videotape, unfortunately, are fixed at 525 lines of resolution forever.
Incidentally, only season 4 was shot in a one hour format. Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 5 were all half-hour format.
Every network has the dumb idea that they will be able to have their own profitable subscription streaming service now that Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu have staked out that territory already and made a killing on it.
They don’t seem to realize that a single network just doesn’t produce enough original content to justify people buying a monthly subscription, and on top of that, locking their best content behind a paywall like this is going to kill the ratings for the regular network even more.
“CBS streaming costs $5.99/month.”
And Netflix costs $12.99/month (less if you don’t need HD) but you get content from many more networks, plus movies, plus original programming.
These individual networks might be able to sell streaming at a buck or two a month, but who is going to really pay more than that for a single network?
Only if the network has one or more hits that somebody really wants to watch. I think we're going to see some sort of micro-payment system emerge, where multiple streaming services go under the umbrella of a payment system, and you can pick and choose individual programs for x cents each.
The nice thing is that it creates a potential opening for conservative paid-for programming, where instead of advertisers, consumers pay for the program.
Good points.
Consider the broadcast networks such as CBS. These networks are available almost everywhere in America via over the air, cable, or satellite. This CBS subscription service is not going to get anywhere near 90+ percent coverage . It does seem as if they don’t care about the ratings for programs on the subscription service.
I suspect that networks are trying to wean their customers away from cable.
Not just killing broadcast TV....Cable is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Content is king.
I found the entire series without those silly “Sixth Sense” add-ons after Serling died, at the Barnes and Nobel bookstore-DVD center. The ENTIRE series, not just the first year.
***The audience for these broadcasts is old and passing away. ***
Our local Oldies radio station is doing the same. thirty Forty years ago they were playing big band songs from the 1930s and 1940s. Now they are playing songs from the 1960s and 1970s.
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