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The Voice
2011 · TV series · 30 seasons
Created by John de Mol
The strongest vocalists from across the United states compete in a blockbusters vocal competition, the winner becomes “The Voice.” The show's innovative format features four stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts and, finally, the live performance shows.
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The article mentions complications with this because of existing deals:
Still, efforts by Amazon to profit off MGM's library won’t be easy, or cheap.
In many cases, MGM’s content is tied up in multi-year deals with television networks, the former Amazon executives said. Amazon cannot air MGM’s reality show “The Voice,” for instance, which contractually is in the hands of NBC.
Bringing a new installment of the James Bond saga to Prime viewers may be a particularly difficult task, the sources said. The terms under which MGM acquired the franchise leave control in the hands of the Broccoli family, the Bond films’ producers.
ALL of the chefs on Top Chef are professionals. All of them. That's the point of the show.
NONE of the singers on the Voice are professionals. That's also the point of the show.
The bigger point that clearly wasn't understood is that celebrity and success aren't mutually inclusive when it comes to cooking or music. You can be a successful chef that isn't on Top Chef just as you can be a successful voice that never goes on American Idol. In fact MOST people successful in both realms will never ever be on even a local TV show.
Thousands is not that much is it?
Just look at the tv show 'the voice' and look at how many contestants they start with, and how many end up making a living out of it.
The number of people with businesses are not expressed with "thousands".
> the driver got a lot of heat for fumbling with her phone (or 2nd computer?) right before the accident
Based on news stories I found, she was glancing at a television show on her phone [1].
> make the car sound its horn when it gets into this absurd 1s "action suppression" mode?
If they added the suppression because there were too many false positives, that would just have resulted in the car honking at apparently arbitrary times. It's just converting the garbage signal from one form into another. It's still too noisy to be reliable.
1: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2019/03/17/one-year-after-self-driving-uber-rafaela-vasquez-behind-wheel-crash-death-elaine-herzberg-tempe/1296676002/ Vasquez looked down 166 times when the vehicle was in motion, not including times she appeared to be checking gauges [...] In all, they concluded, Vasquez traveled about 3.67 miles total while looking away from the road. [...] starting at 9:16, Vasquez played an episode of “The Voice,” The Blind Auditions, Part 5, on her phone.
> Further records from the streaming service Hulu suggested that Ms Vasquez had been streaming the TV show, The Voice, on a phone at the time of the crash.
But isn't this exactly the kind of thing everyone expects to be doing in their "full self-driving cars" in the future? Will humans retain full liability for accidents and crashes when inside cars that advertise as self-driving?
> The office did not explain its reasoning for finding Uber to be not criminally liable.
Nothing suspicious there.
> Vasquez, the Uber back-up driver, could face charges of vehicular manslaughter, according to a police report in June.
> Based on a video taken inside the car, records collected from online entertainment streaming service Hulu and other evidence, police said last year that Vasquez was looking down and streaming an episode of the television show “The Voice” on a phone until about the time of the crash. The driver looked up a half-second before hitting Elaine Herzberg, 49, who died from her injuries.
Though there's something to be said about watching a video as opposed to paying attention to the driving, the job of a "back-up driver" seems to be highly aligned with something akin to a CCTV monitoring job. In that industry, they recognize a "vigilance decrement" [1] occurs within 15-30 minutes, at which point a person basically can't effectively continue monitoring. It's recognized as a best practice to limit the duration anyone is watching a screen and regularly rotate people's tasks [2].
As the self-driving technology gets better, of course people's trust will go up and they'll pay less attention. My guess would be the first hour or so you're in a self-driving car, you will be hyper-vigilant and probably even get a rush of adrenaline everytime it approaches an intersection or pedestrian or makes a turn into moving traffic. After a while -- say dozens or hundreds of hours of no incidents -- of course your vigilance is going to go way down, while your boredom goes way up. Apparently for some people, eventually to the point they feel comfortable focusing on something else.
All this to say, it's surprising this doesn't seem to be taken into account -- specifically, what practices did Uber put in place to avoid this known problem? Did they put a human in an impossible situation, where they expected someone to sit and do nothing for maybe hundreds of hours and then suddenly react within a few hundreds of a second when something went wrong?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilance_(psychology)#Vigilance_decrement
[2] https://www.securigroup.co.uk/news/understanding-the-challenges-of-cctv-monitoring
At my place (me, my wife, 6yo and 1yo daughters) we have done the same (got rid of our TV about 5 years ago).
We watch the occasional TV show via on demand streaming (guilty pleasure="The Voice", food for thought="several long form journalistic features, tv documentaries etc")
The improvement to our quality of life at home as been significant. In the little free time our daily chores still leave us, we simply play with our daughters (lego, board games, silly play) or read a book with them.
The only concern I have is with the kids growing up. Is the lack of exposure to daily news going to make them less aware of the "world out there"?
After all we could make the choice to live without TV/News after growing up with it. All that news noise is part of our accumulated view of the world. How will this affect someone growing up?
Internet ranking for cult shows/movies is problematic, these shows have an extremely loyal fan base which ties the origins of the word fan to it's root fanatic quite often.
While these are great shows, the ranking don't necessarily mean much, it just means that there were more fans willing to give the show a good rating, and more likely than not on probably more than a few accounts.
It's hard to compare IMDB ratings properly when shows like America's Got Talent or the Voice only have 5000-7000 votes with a pretty shitty score while clearly being considerably more popular with the mass audience. Shows like GoT are an outlier with over 1M votes cast, while even highly acclaimed TV sci fi shows like Star Trek TNG have only about 60K votes.
Firefly is the "best tv show that got canceled ever" just like Kim Jong Un is Time's internet person of the year, mostly anonymous internet voting and highly loyal and fanatic fan base can easily skew statistics.
I love Firefly I would loved to have seen it live to be 5-6 seasons old, but every time I see people talk about it like it was the "greatest mistake" in modern television programming I can't really take them seriously.
I have to wonder if grocery profit margins were higher 50 years ago, when home delivery was as common as episodes of The Voice.
Or the winner of The Voice TV show.... ;)
The reality TV show "The Voice" is similar. The on-TV auditions are done such that the judges cannot see the performer and must select them for their season-long team based purely on their voice. It's worked well.