[brentus j o'shea]

So RE: 20-24 episode long seasons, I swear that one of the reasons why this model existed in the form that it did was because it made it quicker to put together a package of episodes to sell for syndication. After all, once you've done two seasons that's enough episodes for a network to buy the rights and either have a show they can broadcast weekly for an entire year *or* that they can broadcast weeknights at 9pm or something for two months, and that can really help fill out a TV schedule. & in the US, which is a *huge* country geographically speaking, you've historically had a lot of local stations that will have had to pay for programming to fill out their schedules. But something that's changed a lot of that lately is streaming - instead of doing like 5 seasons of a show with 20/24 episodes a season where you make money then selling it on to other networks, now you can make a show and just immediately use it to fill out your streaming library. And because you can now watch what used to be shows broadcast on television with your computer (or laptop or phone), you're not as reliant on what programming your local station can buy up now - you can just pay like $14 a month and watch whatever you want. & as has been brought up in the past RE: Netflix, shows which don't continue to see substantial increases in viewership aren't worth the expense of continuing to produce the show (after all, you don't want to just hold onto the paying subscribers you already have - you want to get *more* subscribers. And once a show is in your library, it's still there.)

If you fall for a social media prank, do you reblog/pass it on to your followers?

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I got to hang out in the studio with Bernard Cribbins when we were recording HOW THE MARQUIS GOT HIS COAT BACK. He played Old Bailey. He was the best of the best.

We need to bring back private rail cars as the cool, sexy, exclusive way to travel, so instead of dumping the carbon budget of a small nation in the global south on private jets, celebrities have to attach their luxury pull an cars to the back of an Amtrak. Then the celebrities will lobby for Amtrak lines to be better

With the hbomberguy plagiarism video on fire right now I want to share my favorite example of egregious plagiarism.