Amazon is deciding which of its eight comedy pilots are getting picked up this week, and it looks like Zombieland won't be one of them. "Our Zombieland series will not be moving forward on Amazon," the show/movie's co-creator Rhett Rheese tweeted yesterday. He added, "Sad for everyone involved. I'll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans. You guys successfully hated it out of existence. Anyway, we did our best, and we're very proud of our team." Zombieland was the only existing franchise, besides The Onion, that Amazon made into a pilot, but being compared to the movie it's based on didn't win the pilot any favors. The [...]
Online retailer Amazon began developing a slate of original comedy pilots last year for their Amazon Instant Video. Here are two clips from one called Those Who Can't, a show about three immature teachers created by and starring Denver-based comedy group The Grawlix (Andrew Orvedahl, Adam Cayton-Holland, and Benjamin Roy). The pilot will debut on Amazon soon, alongside the streaming service's other comedy pilots. Amazon will decide which pilots to pick up to series based on how much people like them, which is really how regular TV should run.
Check out the other clip from Those Who Can't below:
As Netflix becomes a spot for television binge-watching, ventures into the world of original content with House of Cards, and prepares to make a lot of people really, really happy by finally bringing back Arrested Development, it can be hard to remember what Netflix was originally there for — flix for the Net! Right?
The website is constantly adding a ton of new titles that can often slip by unnoticed if they don't make it into your homepage recommendations. Amid the weird knock-off movies and forgettable television that is forever at everyone's fingertips, there is also a pretty good amount of quality comedy on the streaming service.
Here are [...]
What did you do last month? The numbers suggest you probably watched a lot of Netflix. Netflix surpassed 1 billion hours of viewing in June. The average Netflixer watched 80 minutes a day of old episodes of Cheers, pop culture documentaries, and other desirables. These numbers would put them as TV's 7th most watched network and 2nd most watched cable network (right behind ESPN and ahead of Disney). As these numbers continue to increase, Netflix will continue to assert itself as a serious competitor to the networks, especially in terms of buying new series. And this is before they start having new episodes of Arrested Development and we all [...]
Netflix is quickly turning from a DVDs-by-mail service to a streaming video service. Want proof? As of today, you can sign up for a DVD-free streaming-only plan for $8 a month. Also, all DVD plans are now getting their prices raised by at least a dollar a month. So if you were on the $9 1 DVD per month plan, that'll go up to $10. How many people will be dropping down to that streaming only plan? I know I will, as soon as I watch this goddamned Crazy Heart DVD I've had next to my TV for 4 months.
