Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Selected programming for March 30-31, 2024 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:32:23 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 135 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:32:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eeeb2e3608e33d221ed35308c3dfae2a"; logging-data="1601993"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vVBLNi99f365aV4/WVF+YW8AY0aVCxYM=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DcDQT2rzpZqrn2dUhwrdjkliBig= Bytes: 5461 On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:39:25 -1000, Ian J. Ball wrote: >On 2024-03-30 22:12:35 +0000, Robin Miller said: > >> RM: The programming list for Monday-Friday will be posted tomorrow. >> >> >> >> >> Previously released: >> >> >> The Accountant (movie) (Netflix, March 27) >> >> Not only is this accountant able to dig deeply into a company's books, >> he's also an expert assassin, and his new client can use both skills. >> 2026 film starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon >> Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Tambor, John >> Lithgow and others; 2hr 7m. "#1 in movies today" >> >> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140479/ [rating 7.3] >> >> https://www.netflix.com/title/80071227 > >Not only has this been to every other streamer out there before now, >it's also been on cable TV for years! Yeah, it's made the rounds >> No Escape (movie) (Netflix, March 26) >> >> Soon after relocating to Southeast Asia, an American family lands in >> the midst of a violent coup that could cost them their lives. 2015 film >> starring Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, and Owen Wilson ; 1h 43m. >> Unavailable on Netflix's ad tier. >> >> https://www.netflix.com/title/80016589 >> >> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781922/ [rating 6.7] > >Ditto. So what does Netflix's ad tier actually get? >> Mending the Line (movie) (Netflix, March 25) >> >> A Marine wounded in Afghanistan learns to face his combat trauma >> through friendship with an older war veteran and the healing practice >> of fly-fishing. 2022 film starring Brian Cox, Perry Mattfeld, Sinqua >> Walls, Patricia Heaton and Wes Studi; 2h 2m. Unavailable on Netflix's >> ad tier. > >Which is yet more proof how useless Netflix's "ad tier" is. So Netflix's ad tier gets nothing? > >> Saturday, March 30 >> >> >> Vikings (seasons 1-6) (3:01 am, Netfix) >> >> https://www.netflix.com/title/70301870 >> >> Note: The sequel, "Vikings: Valhalla," is a Netflix original, with the >> third and final season expected in 2024. > >Hmmm... Prime used to have this series, IIRC. I wonder if they'vs lost it. They have. Just checked and while you can buy individual episodes/seasons you can't watch it on Prime without paying for it. $2.99/episode $19.99/season >> A Gentleman in Moscow [new] (9 pm, Showtime) >> >> An eight-episode adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Amor Towles, >> Moscow stars Ewan McGregor as (the fictional) Count Alexander Rostov, >> who is banished to live out his remaining years as a prisoner in the >> Hotel Metropol following the Russian Revolution. In the years that >> follow, he begins to build a new life within the confines of the hotel. >> Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alexa Goodall, and Johnny Harris also star. >> Limited series running through May 19. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PpUtjfZB5g >> >> https://www.metacritic.com/tv/a-gentleman-in-moscow/ [score 73] >> >> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8230448/ > >I really wish this had been a movie - I would have watched it as a movie. Yeah, it is tough to watch everything when it is a series. Glad that Marvel is getting out of throwing everything into a series as I was one that tried to catch everything but there just isn't enough time in a day. >> The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (season 1/limited series >> finale) (9 pm, AMC) > >>:/ So they all lived long enough to die at the end? >(And who's taking bets when season #2 will be greenlit?!) > >> Parish [new; special time] (10:15 pm, AMC) >> >> Giancarlo Esposito heads the cast of a six-episode adaptation of >> British series The Driver as a New Orleans luxury car service owner who >> becomes entangled with a crime syndicate. Bradley Whitford, Skeet >> Ulrich, Paula Malcomson, Zachary Momoh also star. Regular time is 9 pm; >> runs through May 5. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcoR4hfKCl0 >> >> https://www.metacritic.com/tv/parish/ [score 57] >> >> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18552362/ > >Also really wish this had just been a movie, as I would have watched it... +1 > >> (end) > >Not yet, it's not! - We still have 5 more days coming!! ;) > Robin is telling it's the end of Hollywood. No more content coming, ever.