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Workaholics
2011 · TV series · 21 min episodes · 7 seasons
Created by Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, Kyle Newacheck, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo
The misadventures of three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company and their drug dealer.
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Most broadcast TV shows, with the commercials removed, are about 21-22 minutes long. Those are usually my go-to for lunch. I tend to re-watch series as well, so I don’t have to pay too close attention.
I’m currently re-watching Schitt’s Creek, but others I’ve enjoyed are Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, King of the Hill, The League, Scrubs, Workaholics.
> The future is definitely being able to stream all the shows and movies immediately after release anywhere on the web.
I agree, I wonder though if future Hollywood will be more or less profitable.
Imagine a future where all movies/tv shows were given away for free/stolen, how would they profit?
I think the answer is advertising inside the movie/show. I recently saw this done pretty tastefully in an episode of 'Workaholics' where the group wove some product placement into the story pretty naturally. I was day dreaming about how far they could take this and imagined them freezing the scene and the three of them breaking character/fourth wall to pitch a product and then unfreezing the scene and going back to acting. You could imagine this getting so popular that it eventually becomes annoying and then eventually edited out of any shows/movies.
What I think is even more interesting is the fact that advertising, such a wildly inefficient method, right now props up so many industries.
Imagine if Google released a product tomorrow that was 100% efficient at replacing advertising.. Some sort of beam that just got people to understand/like your product immediately. What would all of these major industries do for revenue?
while i agree the article is fairly off the mark, i also do not agree with your assumption that a traditional market will emerge.
producing the pilot of Game of Thrones cost $10M, before they knew it would be a hit. you can't make those gambles in an efficient market - ever. in the efficient market scenario, we'll end up with a lot more reality TV and mediocre sitcoms/drama.
the reality check is - the current system ain't so bad, and while I want "independent content" as much as you, I think we have a lot more of it in the current system than you outline... Workaholics? Portlandia? etc.
What is their advertising revenue versus subscription revenue?
I have Hulu plus and I really don't care for it. I don't like the commercials forced upon me. Originally, Hulu would display the length of the commercial and keep it under 30 seconds. Hulu has been increasing commercial lengths and frequency and sometimes removes the time display for commercials, particularly the longer commercials.
I would like if Hulu had a 'channel' where I could watch a continuous stream of all the ads Hulu served. I do like commercials, but not the way the commercials interrupt the viewing experience, unlike Netflix.
Also, rewind and fast-forward is severely delayed. If you watch a TV show, and you missed something right before it went to commercial, you cannot rewind and watch the portion again and then the commercial. You must wait through the 2 one minute commercials to be able to rewind 15 seconds backward, but it takes another 10 seconds for the streaming server to respond to the request to rewind backwards for 15 seconds.
Compared to Netflix streaming, it is an inferior product technically. Netflix seems to have every movie Hulu Plus has, but charges less. Rewind and Fast-forward are near instant.
Netflix could kill Hulu by offering an enhanced TV streaming tier of service. I would rather give my money to Netflix. I would probably pay up to $30/month, maybe $35 if Netflix offered current season Comedy Central shows and Modern Family.
Why is Workaholics delayed by 3 episodes on Hulu?