Two years ago, Disney’s eight hour trip back to the late ’60s, director Peter Jackson’s “Get Back,” sold a lot of streaming subscriptions. Jackson spent several years transferring, digitizing and rendering in 5K glory 56 hours of 16mm footage. It was all done to scrub the stink off what was thought to be a record
Even if you knew how it would end, you watched one more time. According to overnight estimates, 5,063,000 watched Saturday’s seventh and deciding Stanley Cup opening round game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins. The breakdown from last Saturday night’s live+ same day tally was 2,386,000 watching on Sportsnet National; 2,291,000 on
“Unfrosted” is like a big bowl of Frosted Flakes. Very little nutrition value, despite all the Riboflavin. Too much of it could rot your teeth. It will also bring back, however, warm memories of your childhood, when sugary cereals and silly comedy movies were all you needed to feel happy. The Netflix movie marks Seinfeld’s
Thursday’s sixth game in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs drew an overnight, estimated audience of just over 3.4 million total (all ages) viewers. On Sportsnet National, the Live+ same day tally was 1,997,000; there were 1,409,000 who watched the same game on CBC. That Leafs victory forced a seventh and deciding game
There are still people, I guess, who only watch TV the old, traditional way — broadcast network television. Hey, I get it — it is more affordable. Mainly though, it is familiar and therefore, in a world that keeps changing at a faster and dizzier pace, more comfortable. Plus, all you lousy 30- or 40-something
Milton Berle was television’s earliest non-puppet breakout star. Let’s not forget Howdy Doody. Berle’s Texaco Star Theater (1948-’53) a rambunctious comedy-variety series that stood out in the early days of network television, was the most-watched series among early set buyers. Berle himself joked that he sold more TV’s than anyone else. When his show came
If you listened to the 1972 Canada-Soviet Union Summit Series over the radio — as some of us did with a wire running up one arm and into an ear speaker while pretending to pay attention in a classroom — it wasn’t the voice of Hockey Hall of Famer Foster Hewitt calling the play-by-play. It
Remember all that hand-wringing two years ago when Netflix hit the wall with their subscriber growth and their stock value dropped a ton overnight? Well, a very interesting report from Parrot Analytics last week brought things up to date. Turns out that Netflix has almost fully recovered its peak share price. Not only that, the