| I find the offensiveness somewhat defensive. | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 04:01 pm EST 03/09/22 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 04:00 pm EST 03/09/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The 75th Annual Tony Awards to Air Live Coast to Coast on Sunday, June 12, 2022 - TheHarveyBoy 02:16 pm EST 03/09/22 | |
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| And I'm not picking on you, since you're hardly the only one who's said this. But I suspect that if the on-demand feature, extra hour, and additional content, were on, say, Netflix or HBO, which are much more ubiquitous and have been around for decades – or even on Disney+, which presumably everyone has or is familiar with thanks to Hamilton and other offerings – there wouldn't be quite so much outrage. People would be praising HBO or Netflix for their commitment and dedication to theater, and either subscribe, find a friend who has it, be creative in coming up with another free trial as others have suggested, or let it go. But since it's on "Paramount Plus", a supposed mere upstart in the streaming wars, everyone is up in arms. For the record, Paramount has just this month unleashed a torrent of money for new movies and series – they've made it clear they don't want to compete with HBO Max or Disney or Peacock or Hulu, but with Netflix and Amazon... to the point where the entire name of the parent company was changed from CBS, and Viacom/CBS, to Paramount, so that the focus of the entire umbrella conglomerate is on their streaming. So it's probably only a matter of time till a larger percentage of the population subscribes. (Everything's still slowly moving from traditional TV to streaming anyway.) Their previous goal for the next year was to move from its current 56 million subscribers up to 65, but they've now revised/doubled that to hit 100 million subscribers by 2024. We should all consider ourselves lucky that the Tony Awards is still hosted on such a prestigious network, and (soon, very likely) a streamer with that kind of reach. |
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