The Streaming TV Bloodbath
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Shows are disappearing. Staff are getting axed. Is It greed, or necessary for the networks' survival?
Guest: Julia Alexander
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 0:00.0 | If you open up HBO Max right now, you might notice something, or rather the lack of something, |
| 0:09.1 | 36 somethings to be exact, 36 shows that are just gone, disappeared from the platform. |
| 0:16.7 | I actually really do love Infinity Train. |
| 0:19.5 | Well, I'm glad I was able to help you. |
| 0:21.8 | Now, come on, we better keep moving. |
| 0:23.5 | No, hard pass. |
| 0:25.1 | I spent my whole existence living your life. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm going my own way now. |
| 0:30.4 | Which is Owen Dennis' cartoon, it was a show that aired on Cartoon Network for two years, |
| 0:35.2 | then moved to HBO Max for two years. |
| 0:37.6 | That's Julia Alexander. |
| 0:39.4 | She's a director of strategy at Parrot Analytics, a company that measures and studies audience |
| 0:44.8 | demand. |
| 0:46.4 | And she writes a newsletter about streaming for Puck News. |
| 0:50.2 | Julia is like an encyclopedia of all things streaming. |
| 0:53.8 | So she's been watching closely as Warner Bros Discovery, the new parent company of HBO, |
| 0:59.0 | has taken an axe to a lot of beloved shows. |
| 1:02.5 | And so that show disappeared with all the rest of them. |
| 1:05.6 | So that one I was a little upset about. |
| 1:07.2 | But for the most part, I think it's been targeting series that are not necessarily in my wheelhouse |
| 1:13.9 | of interest. |
| 1:14.9 | But I definitely have seen the response online from fans who clearly are very upset about |
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