Good. I'm encouraging everyone here to vocally support the strike.
I'm expecting the studios to start importing foreign movies/TV shows and coming up with absurd reality TV soon, so that could be fun.
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That's something I never really appreciated before. In Europe of course we mostly consume media produced in our own language or in English, but it's completely normal to watch (and for broadcasters to air) shows from all over Europe, either dubbed or with subtitles depending on the country. Subtitles being the only tolerable way of course.
If a show started airing in French or German with subtitled on US television this would be a huge deal?
I want to watch some crazy Japanese game shows with subtitles on American TV.
Whatever happened to Takeshi's Castle?
It's back, but on Prime
Oh sweet. I remember really liking the old version of that show, so I'll go check it out for nostalgia.
Outside of dubbed anime, I can't think of cases where that would ever happen in the USA. Hell, it is somewhat rare to even get non-American English shows in the USA.
The USA can produce so much television profitably because it is the largest English language television market.
Your market at home is also much greater than what any European country could ever dream of. Spain has some occasional hits in Latin America (La Casa de Papel was huge everywhere), but they don't have anything comparable to the American industry.
But for sure, the international market is huge - how terrified Hollywood is of offending China is solid evidence of that. :)
It's common on streaming platforms for foreign language shows to be huge hits. Squid Game was the most notable one, but Dark was another. Both Netflix.
On network TV? Never.
True, I remember Squid Game was huge in the US. Did people watch it with subtitles?
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If a show started airing in French or German with subtitled on US television this would be a huge deal?
During the strike? Absolutely. It'd be nothing but a way for them to undermine the strike. Normal day without a stike? I'd absolutely love some new content.
It likely wouldn't be watched at all.
On TV, it would probably gain no traction. I'm sure a lot of old conservative folks would be turned off by being forced to listen to a language they don't understand, and that's exactly the type of people who would phone up their local TV station to complain about it. Younger people might not care so much, and would sit through, but if there's something else on in English they would probably switch.
On streaming platforms, they would just never see it in the first place.
and coming up with absurd reality TV soon,
Holy shit, that ship sailed years ago. Ten years ago I told everyone that we have officially made too many cameras. Are you trying to imply this will get worse?
Of course, since there's no writers and no actors working any more, they'll have to find something to fill TV time besides politics and reruns.
I know. I was being halfheartedly sarcastic. There's some horrifically dumb shit out there now. This ought to be exciting to see how far down the barrel they can scrape.
It's probably a really good time for independent creators with no connections to the established industry to make some waves and fill that void.
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I honestly don’t understand why she is on the show in the first place.
Ken is the greatest Jeopardy player of all time and deserves the job.
Whether or not Alex Trebek was really smart, he certainly gave off that vibe like he knew a lot about the subjects he quizzed the contestants on.
I understand she is some sort of scientist, but they are a dime a dozen.
Why does being good at the game make you a good host? I'm not saying he isn't, but being a good host requires an entirely different skill set than being a good player. Bialik was there because her brand is intellectual nerdiness that Jeopardy wants to leverage, but also because she's been making TV off and on her whole life. That kinda feels more relevant to the skillset required to making TV.
Bialik's delivery of questions is really good. The only downside of her hosting is she sometimes has very long pauses before she says someone is correct. I'd heard speculation that it's because she made a slip up early on when she awarded points for an incorrect answer and the producers wanted to make sure that doesn't happen again.
Since Ken is arguably the Jeopardy goat*, he's much less likely to make this type of mistake.
*Brad Rutter should be up there because he beat Ken a few times in tournaments of champions and was unable to have Ken's streak because Brad was from the 5-wins-and-go-home era.
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Ken should have been the permanent host from the beginning.
*Scab Jennings
He’s not an actor and he’d already had this job. It would’ve been cool if he joined the strike but it’s not something to hold against him, either
Is it really nothing to hold against him though, when the person he's replacing did join the strike?
The person he’s replacing is a member of SAG AFTRA (and maybe also WGA?) and he’d already been hired as her replacement. She’s not going on sympathy strike.
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She's literally an actor and thus a member of the union that is striking. He is neither.
She is part of SAG. SAG is striking so she needs to in order to remain in the union. Jennings is NOT part of SAG and there's no reason for him to join the strike as that would harm all the other staff on the show who would be out of work.
The important part is that he is already an employee there who does this job already, while not being union. If he wasn’t and he was hired to do the job because he’s not union he would be a scab.
Why is Jennings not part of SAG? I find it hard to believe the union is cool with a host not being a member unless they don't care about game show hosts in general, which is on them.
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If an accountant leaves his profession to become a commercial pilot, does he get a pass to fly when the rest of the pilots go on strike?
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Jennings is a vast improvement over Bialik. Some great things are already happening because of the strikes.
I liked Mayim for Celebrity Jeopardy, but I am interested in seeing Ken’s interactions with the celebrities. I think his wit will make for a great show.
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