The A.V. Club
Even more obsessive pop culture coverage available at avclub.com. Posts are from Sarah, or others as noted.
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Arrested Development will premiere its entire fourth season in one big lump
I’m already planning a nerd menu for marathoning all 10 episodes. There will be cornballing.
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Netflix decides bringing back Terra Nova isn’t such a great idea
Who can make the best dinosaur/extinction joke?
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Netflix wants to abandon this whole Netflix thing and just be HBO, basically
Continuing a trajectory that will make a fascinating cautionary example for some future business class, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has made explicit his intentions to transform his company from a once-powerful titan of a unique industry into an ordinary cable channel, saying it was Netflix’s “natural direction” to be bundled in an ordinary cable package someday and provide an ordinary sampling of cable offerings.
Somebody get Reed Hastings a new shovel. He was digging his own grave so fast the old one broke.
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So long Party Down, Young Frankenstein, and everything else from Starz
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Whoa, some good news about Netflix and The Weinstein Company. Weinstein will be giving their films over to Netflix streaming before they go to cable, so The Artist, W.E., and other new releases will be streaming within a year of their theatrical release dates. We’re not sure how to process this, but we will let you know if we find a catch.
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Netflix is basically giving up on DVDs, with their CEO saying, “We expect DVD subscribers to decline each quarter forever.” And while declining forever might seem like Netflix’s whole strategy, it’s not really something to base a business on.
