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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 29 2017, @10:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-button-apple-mouse dept.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is taking a markedly different path with its streaming TV series than the likes of HBO Now or Showtime. The sources for the report—which include Hollywood producers and other industry insiders who have met with the company in recent months—paint a picture of a very conservative corporation making slow progress.

They say that Apple has expressed a preference for uplifting, family-friendly shows and that it has been disinterested in other kinds of pitches—even those from prestigious artists like Gravity's Alfonso Cuarón—because they don't fit that mold.

Carpool Karaoke, based on the segment from CBS' The Late Late Show with James Corden, was scheduled to premiere on Apple Music in April, but it didn't. The series came out in August instead. The Bloomberg report indicates that the show was delayed because the initial cuts had swearing and "references to vaginal hygiene."

Will Apple be the new Disney?


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by jmorris on Sunday October 29 2017, @06:38PM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday October 29 2017, @06:38PM (#589158)

    Will Apple be the new Disney?

    Considering Disney is putting gay into children's programming, then yes Apple will be imitating Disney. If you expect actual safe for kids fare of the sort Disney USED to produce, and Pixar still mostly does, then probably a big NO on that question. They should go ahead and name it POZ TV.

    Because of course it will. They won't be able to stop themselves. Apple is a fully converged institution no longer able to perform its primary function, "innovating insanely great sources of new revenue", so of course it will be unable to create children's programming. As it realizes this it will do what everyone else does and dump social justice message PSAs lightly disguised as light comedies for kids. The Nick model, the Disney Channel model. Push The Narrative and collect the "major awards" so you can pretend you are doing your job. Of course they will hire on some skeevy folks people have been whispering are pedos for years. Again, this isn't new, because Apple traded innovation for a SJW affirmative action CEO.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @06:48PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @06:48PM (#589164)

    Since when is gay not safe for children? Perhaps if you'd take the dick out of your mouth for a few minutes, you'd realize that most people aren't closet cases and can see gay people without immediately heading off to the nearest truck stop to service the glory hole.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Sunday October 29 2017, @07:13PM (2 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Sunday October 29 2017, @07:13PM (#589170)

      From the beginning of time up until around now, as in five years ago Disney execs would have been fired for even suggesting devoting an entire season to a triangle between a thot, a dude and a gay BFF lusting after the same dude. Even in the worst degeneracy during the terminal stages of the decline of the civilizations of old it was known to be wrong, just tolerated. Only our civilization, powered by so much wealth we can drive into depravities of r-selection since unseen, do we go beyond tolerance to acceptance and finally (hopefully at the end!) to having it held up as superior.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:01AM (#589327)

        Not really, it's mostly closeted gays that are upset by it. It's not like they're showing people fucking on network TV. Any fucking going on is on either pay TV or movies.

        Most other people either don't think about it or don't mind it.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Monday October 30 2017, @03:59PM

        by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 30 2017, @03:59PM (#589485)

        Ditto the BBC, new thing just out from them is some sort of Non-Binary Nemo Finds Itself - boy fish meets girl fish, doesn't get on, girl fish changes into boy fish, boy-who-was-girl fish fights boy-who-was-boy-fish for the mating territory and wins, leaving boy fish to (presumably) mate with no one, and girl (now boy) fish to mate with other girl fishes.

        God knows who thought that plot up, but it's called Blue something, so must be something to do with Democrats, and to cap it all they've got David Attenborough involved as if to convince us this sort of stuff is _natural_! End of civilization indeed.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 30 2017, @01:53AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday October 30 2017, @01:53AM (#589299) Journal