The Dark Tower, Rick and Morty (303), Preacher (207), Game of Thrones (704), Firefly (“Shindig”).
01:00 – Summer Movie Draft
03:25 – The Dark Tower
13:44 – Rick and Morty (303)
17:12 – Preacher (207)
22:17 – Game of Thrones (704)
37:04 – Firefly – “Shindig”
Netflix buys a comic publisher, CBS goes international with its streaming service, and we have Khan-concerns. With special guest Mikey Neumann.
Rick and Morty (301-302), Preacher (206), Game of Thrones (703), Firefly – Bushwhacked, Summer Movie Draft. With special guest Chris Cox.
01:09 – Summer Movie Draft
04:02 – Rick and Morty (301-302)
10:07 – Preacher (206)
14:58 – Game of Thrones (703)
26:36 – Firefly – Bushwhacked
Pay TV experiences a half-million subscriber drop, Roku: top of the set-top box, and why you want to watch Ozark. With special guest Chris Cox.
CordKillers: Ep. 181 – Everything Is Great!
Recorded: July 31 2017
Guest: Chris Cox
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Could The Dark Tower, at 95 minutes, be a good movie? Sure. It just won’t be The Dark Tower.
So don’t call it The Dark Tower.
Just toss me a colon for god’s sake. The Dark Tower: Face of My Father. Or call it The Dark Tower and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Whatever. Anything that admits you’re not trying to do the whole series.
Though I’m not sure what portion of the story they can tell well in 95 minutes–that’s barely longer than each Game of Thrones episode is supposed to be next season.
Of course, Game of Thrones is an epic adventure that you could hardly expect to be told in shorter form, whereas The Dark Tower is–oh, wait…
Anyhow, sub-$20 million opening weekend.
But I’m not promising ten bucks of it won’t be mine.
–Mike
MovieLeagueMike
On Cordkillers episode 180, Brian mentioned that Wonder Woman had overtaken Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at the box office. Consider that the current top two movies of the year are Wonder Woman and live action Beauty and the Beast, with The Last Jedi likely to join them. If that comes to pass then the top three movies of 2017 will feature female leads. I enjoy watching the Hollywood suits get reality checked. Kudos to the fans for serving that check: women can star in and open blockbusters.
– Roy
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Preacher (204-205), Game of Thrones (702), Firefly (The Train Job), Summer Movie Draft.
00:46 – Summer Movie Draft
05:21 – Preacher (204-205)
16:13 – Game of Thrones (702)
26:34 – Firefly – The Train Job
Our thoughts on the hot trailers from Comic-Con, how we fell about Internet cable replacements, and broadcasting baseball in VR. With special guest Nicole Lee.
CordKillers: Ep. 180 – Cautiably Anarchistic
Recorded: July 24 2017
Guest: Nicole Lee
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I was about to sign up for my free hbo pass to start game of thrones season 7, but google Play notified me I could purchase a season pass early. I assume the other stores (apple/amazon) also have it posted … I haven’t seen any news if HBO plans to post episode by episode this year to the stores week in week out.
Even if it was delayed 7 days … better than last season when it was delayed a fully ear to the stores. Have either of you heard what HBO’s plans are for episode releases?
– Joe
Tom, Brian, and Hammond,
I have four daughters and I still help with car insurance, health insurance, and Netflix. It is no longer the days of getting a job and your parent dropping you off to sink or swim. So they run off my Netflix I actually had one daughter say she’d rather lose health insurance than Netflix, oh to be young. Love the the show although I can’t quite the cord cut yet. If Netflix gets pissy, well, we’ll see.
– Allen
Adult Swim has stopped livestreaming Space Ghost Coast To Coast episodes (unfortunately), but it’s replaced it with a full-on stream of Rick & Morty! And even better, it streams the episodes in order! Check it out here:
www.adultswim.com/videos/streams/rick-and-morty/
From,
– Amar
Hey guys,
On the latest Cordkillers Susanna wrote in about a cord cutting question for her mother. She mentioned keeping her internet connection and land line.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard you guys go into detail about cutting the phone cord so I wanted to mention a land line alternative.
I got rid of my land line years ago and signed up for a free Google Voice number that I forwarded to my mobile phone. That way I had a home phone number I could give out to people and keep my mobile number a little more private.
My youngest son is now at the age where we are able to leave him home alone but he doesn’t have a mobile phone. I bought an Obi200 voip adapter for $50 and a good old fashioned corded phone. I can connect it to the Google voice service and now I have an absolutely free phone connection at home.
It doesn’t include 911 services but that can be added for a small monthly fee.
Thanks,
– Scott
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Baby Driver, War for the Planet of the Apes, Game of Thrones (701), Firefly (101, “Serenity”), Summer Movie Draft.
00:42 – Summer Movie Draft
03:38 – Baby Driver
13:53 – War for the Planet of the Apes
19:28 – Game of Thrones (701)
32:08 – Firefly (101, “Serenity”)
Will password-sharing kill streaming? Emmy’s make Brian fear Netflix. All the hot new trailer talk. With special guest Hammond Chamberlain.
CordKillers: Ep. 179 – My First Streaming Device
Recorded: July 17 2017
Guest: Hammond Chamberin
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We signed for up DirecTV Now to get the free AppleTV and were going to cancel after the 3 months. Then they added HBO for free (for 1 year) which gave my wife and I pause and we kept it. I frequently hear you all lament DirecTV Now for service issues but we use it daily these days and rarely have any issues on phone, computer or AppleTV. Just thought you’d like to know that they aren’t having the issues they were at the beginning. Not to defend AT&T but they have done pretty well getting this service stable and working.
– David
Guys,
It could have been much worse than Babylon 5….if long series are problematic
Doctor Who… ALL of it. From Hartnell thru Capaldi, you’d be on that train for a decade
ST:TNG, DS9 or Voyager, 7 seasons each…
You want more campy?
Quark – space garbage man from the 70’s , only advantage is that it didn’t last long
Buck Rogers -Gil Gerard in spandex
Salvage One – Andy Griffith – in SPACE!
My suggestion for next time ?
Blakes 7 or Space 1999 either is late 70’s british sci fi at it’s “best
thanks, enjoy the show!
– Dave
Hi Tom et al,
I’ve read your Brief Guide to Cordcutting but don’t see what I’m looking for. Can you help?
My mother wants to jettison her cable/phone/internet service ($200/mo) and keep a landline and the internet. The only TV she wants to keep are local news channels, including the local PBS stations.
She doesn’t have an external antenna or a digital converter box – but would you suggest getting these as the best solution?
Thank you!
-Susannna
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Spider-Man: Homecoming, Nobody Speak, Preacher (203), Justified (613), Summer Movie Draft. With special guest Justin Robert Young.
00:51 – Summer Movie Draft
03:48 – Spider-Man: Homecoming
12:48 – Nobody Speak
20:34 – Preacher (203)
23:47 – Justified (613)
10 stories where Tom hypes PlayStation Vue price rises and charts Amazon Prime’s popularity. Number 8 will shock you! With special guest Justin Robert Young.
CordKillers: Ep. 178 – Tom Merritt: Clickbait King
Recorded: July 10 2017
Guest: Justin Robert Young
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I feel like I just hit the “Whammy” on this Cordkillers game of Press Your Luck…
Thanks in large part to your show, my wife and I dumped cable and picked up Playstation Vue when it launched. Aside from the Roku UI, we have been very happy with Vue. The Core Slim package provides the perfect mix of Scripps/Turner/Sports networks we want. I couldn’t replicate the ~7 channels we watch on any other providers for the cost. Most importantly, I had ability to watch every English Premier League match and the Extra Time Goal Zone when multiple games were happening at the same time. (Goal Zone was the EPL equivalent of the Red Zone Channel for the NFL.) Now, I feel like my cost savings was smashed. My Vue package is going to increase by $10/month and $50 paywall for Premier League Pass, which I had access to last season for no additional cost. It hurts more when it’s taken away. I also have Netflix, Prime and will be purchasing HBO Now for the season Game of Thrones. It’s possible I’m just a unique case, but it seems to be getting cable-level expensive again for the content I want.
I’m not sure there is any way to improve my situation with the current offerings, but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Will these cost increases and paywalls lead to a next “level” of cord cutting/shaving options?
(Feel free to edit for length and/or grammar if you want to use my message on the show. I can provide additional clarity if you’d like.)
Thank you for all you do.
– Tyler
As someone who has dabbled and at times been really into quality scene releases over the years I have learned quite a lot about what popular opinion and standard formatting of this has been around the internet.
.. I decided to go with the flow and started following the largely considered correct way to name individual episodes. I haven’t had any issues with metadata since. THIS is the preferred way to name individual episodes for TV. If you wanted to name season 1 episode 12 it would be typed as S01E12 with S indicating season number and E indicating episode number.
As someone who works professionally at a post production facility, typing up labels and naming files for assets of episodic shows is a very frequent task. At the facility I currently work at, as well as places I’ve worked in the past, the general convention is to label any given episode in a series with:
1. The name of the series
2. Season number
3. Episode (or production*) number
4. Episode title (if one exists)
It’s also pretty common that a season number and episode number will be consolidated into one single identifier. For example, I might use “”307″” to refer to season 3, episode 7. Regardless, I could not help but laugh out loud that there are people with that much OCD that they are motivated to write an e-mail asking you to change the way you guys identify episodes on Spoilerin’Time. Keep up the good work, guys!
– Robert
Hi there, Brian, Tom and Bryce!
Just wanted to say that last night’s show was great and the explanation you made about the Televisa/Cablevisión vs Roku deal was the best I have seen or read so far.
Here in Mexico, Televisa has kind of a bad rep, since they are sort of the official spokes-channel of the Government and they pretty much own most over the air TV channels. The court case agains Roku was seen as a last ditch effort for Televisa, since they have been struggling to capture young audiences with their digital content offerings, however that’s just a reflection of the general dislike with them, since Blim (their version of Netflix) actually owns about 17% of the online streaming services, which is actually quite good if we compare with TV Streaming services from other TV Channels even in the US.
So far, the “banning” of Roku is limited. Only Office Depot and Radio Shack (yes, we still have those around) stopped selling Roku Devices. You can still get it pretty much everywhere else, from Amazon to Bestbuy to Mercado Libre to the corner electronics store. The court case continues and the focus is in stopping piracy, not the device, and as you mentioned, that content is available on the test channels.
Once again, great job on the show, and I was particularly glad to see this topic correctly commented by an impartial observer. Makes me proud of being a patreon. Way to go!
Best regards! Keep up the awesome work!
– Dan
Hey guys, I watched last week’s episode and I completely disagree with you about NBC’s launch of their soccer product that charges $50 per season to watch the games that aren’t on TV.
The way I see it, it’s a move by NBC Sports to try to stem the flow of people to cord cutting than it is their offering of a new product.
In order to have access to all of the games from the Premier League, NBC’s new paid product now forces soccer fans to continue to pay for a TV subscription plus paying $50 for the streaming service to watch the games not on TV.
There were two alternatives last season for cord cutters where you could stream every single Premier League game in the US with a subscription to PlayStation Vue or DIRECTV NOW. But with the launch of NBC’s new product, that access to all of the games has been taken away for next season. Cord cutters can still stream the games that are on TV, but they have to pay the $50 extra to NBC to get the games that aren’t televised.
NBC Sports screwed up on the launch of this service. Many soccer fans would have gladly paid to be able to access all of the matches without requiring a TV subscription. As it is now, NBC has delivered a new product that doesn’t satisfy the cord cutters nor the TV subscribers.
Keep up the great work on the show!
Cheers,
– Christopher
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