Alas, the days of the printed magazine in general are in the past, more or less. The internet has pretty much rendered magazines redundant and obsolete. Just the price of progress, unfortunately.
And the Next Cancelled Show is...
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Balls.
Well.
Fuck.
I haven't had a subscription in years because I didn't make enough time to regularly read them but it was always my favorite magazine by far.
End of an era.
According to this article
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...newsstand-sales-magazine-year-focus-100509263
The magazine will still print physical copies monthly, you just have to be a subscriber to get them, while the newsstand will only get special edition magazines and not the monthly ones. Apparently newsstand sales are only a very small part of their 1.8 million monthly sales.
Whats more worrying to me is them replacing all the staff writers, so now they'll get stories from random freelance writers that they presumably don't have to pay well, give benefits to, etc, while also probably being of more suspect quality.
There's an article in the Hollywood Reporter that says that Disney+ cancels or removes 70 movies/series from its platform it can receive a $1.5 billion tax write off. Doing so would help the platform reach profitability by 2024.
Does the article mention which 70 movies/series, or is a hypothetical?
A partial list includes - the tv series Willow, Y: The Last Man, The Mighty Ducks, Turner and Hooch, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Artemis Fowl, Earth to Ned, Black Beauty (2020) and Cheaper by the Dozen (2022), all pulled May 26th.
The Mysterious Benedict Society is fu%king amazing.
Indeed it was. I heard about it getting cut a while back and was quite depressed about that. It had some really intricate and deep concepts for a Disney show, on par with the 1960's The Prisoner.
I also loved the hell out of The Mysterious Benedict Society. At least it ended with most things tied up.
As for the write-offs...don't even get me fucking started.
As for the write-offs...don't even get me fucking started.
That purchase is gonna result in a lot of crappy reality and game shows. I am thankful that I cancelled my subscription to HBO Max, when it was called that.
As for National Geographic, I stopped reading it years ago. It felt to me that it had changed under the new ownership and had lost some of what it had previously.
It is getting harder and harder to find magazines. I remember going to a bookstore many years ago and seeing row after row of magazines. Now, you will be lucky if you find more than a half-dozen rows of magazines.
As for National Geographic, I stopped reading it years ago. It felt to me that it had changed under the new ownership and had lost some of what it had previously.
It is getting harder and harder to find magazines. I remember going to a bookstore many years ago and seeing row after row of magazines. Now, you will be lucky if you find more than a half-dozen rows of magazines.
It's pretty sad at my local library. The newspaper and magazine section is about half of what it used to be pre-COVID. Took out the shelves and replaced them with tables and computers.
Have they replaced those newspapers and magazines with access through a database, or a digital service like Hoopla or Flipster?
KCLS uses Hoopla, Libby and Kanopy for their online services.
City on Fire was not renewed for another season by Apple, so it ends up being a "one and done".
I wonder what the impact will be from the current strike.
This is what I found for the impact of the previous one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_on_television
This is what I found for the impact of the previous one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_on_television
As far as network shows go, I don't expect them to have more than 13 episodes for the 23-24 season, and that's assuming the strikes are resolved in time for them to have a premiere sometime in February or March. Which I'm certainly not holding my breath on. Hell, I wouldn't be too surprised if a majority of network shows end up not having any new episodes for the 23-24 season.
It's probably changed somewhat since the 50s-60s, but on my behind the scenes books on 'The Twilight Zone', 'The Outer Limits', and 'Mission: Impossible', most filming for a regular season began in June and usually ended in March of the following year in order to get a full compliment of 26 or so episodes.
Then everyone would have April off before the producers and writers would return in May to start working on scripts for the next season.
The shows mentioned usually wanted to have the first six scripts ready to go with directors assigned, locations scouted out and guest stars cast before the main cast returned from their vacations.
Then while the first six are being filmed, edited, etc, the next six scripts would be in various stages of being written/rewritten, those would be filmed before breaking for the holidays, then the final batch of shows would be shot after the new year.
So, even if the strike were to end tomorrow, it's gonna take a while to ramp up production.
IIRC, filming of network dramas starts in July these days, and I think it still ends in March, maybe early April.
