And a movie that Brooks wound up remaking, Lubitsch’s To Be or Not To Be, although even there the humor wound up taking a darker tone as more and more of the truth about the Final Solution came out.

Roseanne, who used to be a hugely influential celebrity and network television juggernaut, is now being interviewed on a podcast for people who believe Joe Rogan is, “Too sufisticated.” Twitterati and click-bait bloggers like AV are only serving to give a platform to an unhinged lunatic who wouldn’t otherwise have it. 

Don’t be ‘sarcastic’ about the Holocaust, it’s not that hard, just don’t do it. I’m half Polish but I don’t make sarcastic jokes about the Polish ghettos in WW2 because they’re never funny and always in bad taste.

Personally I think Lois’ character could only be improved with the addition of a solid gold arm.

Making an origin film for this character yet again would be lazy. I also would like to suggest doing something different for the Lois/Superman dynamic: not making Lois infatuated with Superman. Have an end credits scene where Clark is nervously about to reveal himself to her, and Lois just goes “yeah, I know”- she…

that dude had great presence in pearl, so i think they nailed it. she also just straight up looks like lois lane.

Norton would have been a fun choice for the US show!

The next big streaming trend every studio seems most excited for: “What daytime cable TV was for 40 years, but now it’s free.” I guess they lose out on carriage fees, but make up for it by having a significantly streamlined “broadcasting” operation.

Oh I know! Disney is sitting on some great content. Made for TV movies that I grew up watching, for example. There is so much there, but they are so damn brand conscious that it has them going at a snail’s pace.

Probably for the best. I can’t imagine that the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise is one that has a lot of interest to Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha, nor does it have enough nostalgia associated with it to get the Gene/Millennials super excited. This would’ve been forgotten about a week after dropping on Disney+.

Ahh, it’s the old “This doesn’t personally impact me; therefore, this must not be a real problem, so I’ll just make fun of it instead” reply. Gotta love those.

i don’t think we really know the actual reason why removing shows has any financial benefit, beyond the specific situation of the merger you mentioned.

This certainly doesn’t make me feel bad about cancelling my subscription and finding, um, other means of watching.

I figured as much. PlutoTV is also owned by Paramount and is one of the few elements of their streaming push that seems to work as intended.

... then they came for “Pig Goat Banana Cricket,” and I said nothing, because what can you even say? 

Yes, expect to find all these purged series on a FAST platform in the near future, where they’ll have awkwardly inserted ad breaks every 9 minutes.

To me the second piece is the more important one. Having a deep library that justifies paying a monthly subscription cost instead of getting it for a couple series. I remember getting Netflix when it was the only game in town and thinking I could watch for months and not repeat myself. Or when HBOMax finally levelled…

The reason behind the removals, here and elsewhere, is a tax write-down that streaming services can get by Thanos-snapping their own original series.

It seems to me the draw of a subscription to any of these streaming services is twofold: the buzzy new, original shows/movies (each of the streamers has at least a few), and the back catalog of older TV shows/movies that will sustain subscribers between seasons of the new stuff.

By depleting the second part of that…

Shrinking your kids is believable, but audiences could not buy the outlandish sci-fi premise that someone would knowlingly procreate with Josh Gad.