Amph Airwaves, Streams, Fibers & Cords: General TV Discussion

Peacock has hit 42m sign-ups, up 9m since January and is said be "exceeding all internal targets".

 

imagine a lot of that is the wwe acquisition.

 

Paramount+ aiming for a new original film every week starting in 2022. Also, Antoine Fuqua's "Infinite" will skip theaters and debut on P+ in June. They also reconfirm that there will be a 45 day gap between theatrical releases and those movies appearing on P+ this year. 2,500 library titles will also be added in July.

 

CW has ordered a revival of Legends of the Hidden Temple! And its for adult players!

Move aside, American Ninja, here I come!

 

Big News! Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse and The Venture Bros. are getting feature films, released to BD and then HBOM.

I mean, the Aqua teen one will be nonsense because that's what they do (plus they already got a movie), but the other two are welcome and important surprises for those shows. Metalocalypse in particular, as the show's story was supposed to wrap-up in a 5th season (which was then scaled to a mini-series proposal for budget concerns) before Adult Swim cancelled it in 2015. A coupleyears later the creator pushed a viral fan campaign that drew financial backers to fund the final season, only to have Adult Swim decline once again. So fans will finally get some version of the proposed "The Army of the Dooomstar: The Final Chapter" story.

Likewise, The Venture Bros. (a mainstay Adult Swim show since 2003) was cancelled in 2020 despite a previously-announced 8th-and-final season being in pre-production. So, once again, you have one of the longer-running Adult Swim sagas being cut off right before its conclusion now returning to get that (or, at least, some of that)- though with a much shorter wait between the bad news and the good.

The new Metalocalypse movie, from co-creators Brendon Small and Tommy Blancha, follows the power-hungry Tribunal as they unveil their secret and deadly “Falconback Project”. This is against a backdrop of a world which is growing embattled in chaos with the menacing Doomstar breaching the Earth’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, the mysterious and twisted dissent of a band member threatens the future of Dethklok. Picking up directly after the heroic rescue of Toki Wartooth: Can Dethklok choose between their egos and the greater good of the world to embark on a gauntlet of dangers that will try their very souls and finally write the song that will be their salvation?

Small pens the series original music, and has served with Blancha as the director, writer, and EP on the series which has clocked 63 episodes on Adult Swim. Metalocalypse first aired on Adult Swim in 2003 and ran for 4 seasons, ending with the half-hour special The Doomstar Requeim in 2013. During its run, Small also produced four albums by the show’s fictional band Dethklok, which have sold 1 million albums-equivalents. The Dethalbum released in September 2007 and debuted at #21 on the Billboard 200 chart. The movie soundtrack will be released on WaterTower Music.

In the The Venture Bros. movie, Doc’s latest invention will either bankrupt the Ventures or launch them to new heights, as Hank searches for himself, Dean searches for Hank, The Monarch searches for answers, and a mysterious woman from their pasts threatens to bring their entire world crashing down on them. The Venture Bros. is created, written and executive produced by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer. The Venture Bros. premiered originally as a pilot in 2003, with the first season airing in August 2004. The series aired 7 seasons and 4 specials over its near 15 year-run and was one of Adult Swim’s longest running series alongside Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force will be a continuation of the hit animated series, whereby fans will find out what happens next with Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake, who consider themselves crime fighters, but the truth is they never fight crime. The series was created by Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis and follows the strange everyday lives of three human-sized food products living in New Jersey. Aqua Teen Hunger Force premiered with the official launch of Adult Swim in September 2001 and aired 11 total seasons and was the network’s first theatrical release in 2007.​

 

The Doomstar Requiem rock opera special could be one way that it might avoid feeling that way. A two hour movie with a 30 min opera finale following three 30-min/six 15-min episodes' worth of story would work nicely.

But, then, I'd watch 2 hours of them trying to grocery shop on a loop, so who am I to say?

 

See, Venture Bros. would benefit from a longer format the most- I'm kinda hoping they're not trying to make this movie the finale in the hopes of maybe a couple more HBOM films get the go-ahead to wrap it up properly. Not that it can't be done, but there are so many characters and plot threads (even after the one special packed in resolutions to clean house a bit) that it deserves some room to breathe. Plus AS seemed more positive about finding ways to continue VB than Metalocalypse, so multiple films wouldn't be as risky as Metalocalypse trying to do the same.

I'm hoping the downtime since the series finale of ATHF (or whatever they were calling it in the finale season) has given the creators some creative impulse for the film. Everything after the 3rd or 4th season got to just be progressively more super-stoner-weird (though not without the occasional highlight). Those first few seasons are still classic, though.

 

That’s pretty big. Also bodes well for Discovery content hitting HBOM eventually- or at least offering bundle options ala D+/Hulu/ESPN.

 

C'mon, give me that Harry Potter-Deadliest Catch crossover franchise now.

 

This article says that NBCU was expected to acquire the WarnerMedia spin-off before Discovery was announced.

Oh, and then casually mentions that NBCU will likely be setting its sights on ViacomCBS.

Double Holy ****, Batman!

EDIT- And Amazon is going after MGM for $9b.

Triple Holy ****, Batman!