Netflix Inc’s blitz of new programming attracted a surprisingly high 7.4 million new customers from January to March, reassuring investors who are betting the video streaming pioneer’s massive spending will fuel growth around the world.
Netflix’s shows are great, as are many of the others put out by similar services. These numbers show how much consumers want these types of shows. This is exactly what Apple is looking to happen when it releases its video content—we’ll see how that works out.
It’s a telling answer to decades of lowest-common-denominator, tiny-budget programming by the traditional networks.
Imagine that. People want better entertainment, and they’ll pay to see it.
Just finished season 1 of Netflix’s gritty reboot of “Lost in Space.” Very gritty. it’s this kind of thing that gets viewers, that’s for sure.
I’m hoping that various streaming services do the right thing and work together like Hulu and HBO are. (Subscribe to Hulu, get HBO for $5.99 a month.)
I have just seen the pilot, and it was pretty good. The kid actors are great. It’s no Star Trek Discovery, and Dr. Smith is not going to be as campy, sad to say. But definitely fun.
I think their adapting Philip K. Dick’s material is brilliant. (Electric Dreams, The Man In the High Tower.) Here’s hoping they do just as good a job with Iain M. Banks Culture series. It’s very, very, dense stuff, and some of the best science fiction around.