TV is pretty good even for my English sensibilities. Severance is some of the best television I’ve seen in a long time.

manuelabeledo 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Commercials in TV+ are as bad as ads in News+, e.g. it seems I cannot open the app without getting blasted at with a Peacock commercial.

	▲	MBCook an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What? I’ve never seen a single commercial on an Apple TV+ show.

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dlcarrier 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which makes it even more tragic that the few good streaming shows produced recently are all on a network no one watches.

I am glad that they bought the rights to Brandon Sanderson's books, because I know Netflix wouldn't do them justice and Amazon prime would be far worse than that, but it also means that it will have a tenth of the available audience that a Netflix contract would have brought.

	▲	chrisweekly 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hmm, your comment resonates in principle [caring about quality production of worthwhile narratives], but your specific examples show how much YMMV when it comes to subjective preferences. I was so grateful that Amazon Prime somehow did justice to The Expanse [I highly recommend the novels, and feel the show was one of the best-ever translations of sci-fi to the screen] and could never get into the Wheel of Time book series [tho I guess that was Jordan, not Sanderson, shrug].
	▲	tonyedgecombe an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If they were serving the mass market then they would be making trash like Netflix.

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smt88 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

TV productions are a product, not a service. Apple TV is the service.

	▲	shermantanktop 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Apple has a tv service and Apple also has exclusive content, which they brand with “Apple TV”…so it’s kind of both. Same for the other big streaming services. Some of them (Netflix, Prime Video) are more involved in content production, up to and including having production facilities and an in house staff. But a lot of the “exclusive” branded content is made by semi-independent production companies.