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Cord-cutting, Time Warner analytics, and why the WWE model makes the most sense

Check out the chart above. It’s from Time Warner; during the last quarter reported, they lost 217K video customers (while gaining about 39K broadband customers). You’d have to head back to 2009 to find the last time the company added more video… Continue Reading

Chipotle has a new TV show on Hulu called Farmed and Dangerous. Wait, what? Chipotle has a TV show?

The series rolls out on Hulu on February 17. But wait, why would a burrito company make an Internet/app TV show? Doesn’t that seem weird? Not entirely. First of all, there’s no product placement in the episodes of the show… Continue Reading

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This season of Girls is basically completely about Hannah (Lena Dunham) and that’s making it be pretty awful

I watch Girls and I do so semi-religiously, despite being a 33 year-old guy who doesn’t live in New York anymore and looks like a cross between a sub-par college football player and a character from Of Mice and Men. I doubt I’m really… Continue Reading

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HBO’s True Detective, through two episodes, might be the best show on TV — and it’s all about the approach they used

True Detective, the new Sunday night HBO show, has only aired two episodes — which is 25 percent of its Season 1 run — and might already be the best show on TV (currently; at this moment things like Mad Men and The… Continue Reading

Modern Family is having a down year this year (mostly), but it’s really helping out USA Network on the syndication side

Modern Family has won 62 awards and been nominated 155 times total since its inception, it’s helped make Sofia Vergara a multi-millionaire several times over, and it’s at the point where it’s getting mentioned in headline fields with Breaking Bad and American Hustle. As… Continue Reading

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What Colin Kaepernick, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson do and do not show us about building NFL franchises

The AFC and NFC Conference Championships are set, which means a couple of different things — for one, most of America will be watching TV for a good portion of Sunday (more than 55 million people watched the 2010 and… Continue Reading

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Aereo vs. ABC to the Supreme Court can change everything about how we watch TV — and could put the NFL on cable, finally

Let’s say you’re tired of how cable companies are straight-up gouging you (I was), so you cut the cord (I did). What are your options for watching the shows you still love? You can go with a combo of Netflix… Continue Reading

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Todd from Breaking Bad (i.e. Jesse Plemons) as a young Luke Skywalker in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars movie? Sure.

Depending on your particular streaming video obsession, you know Jesse Plemons as either Landry from Friday Night Lights or Todd from Breaking Bad. I watched both shows, although I was a lot more into Breaking Bad all told, and I think Plemons has one… Continue Reading