Isn’t the show about trying to build up the profile of Women’s Cricket and the Australian Team so that they could try and break the record, more about the journey than the destination.
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Surely Amazon will get the AFL rights eventually…
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Definitely a possibility. Worldwide streaming rights I’d think. Still a few years left of Fox though, but they could start buying up empty regions and slowly build up.
The current AFL streaming rights with Foxtel and Telstra (which is worldwide) will expire at the end of 2024 season, so you will expect negotiations will begin sometime in 2023.
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They’ve now been named as the sponsor for the AFL Record too
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Don’t believe Amazon would buy the rights unless the AFL started producing the game in house, like the EPL does.
IMO the AFL should move towards in house production, it would allow the likes of Ch10, Stan Sport, Amazon, even Apple (who have looked to buy College Football streaming rights) an easier entry to compete against 7/9/fox who dominate the landscape with their magnitude of scale (I know Stan Sport is owned by 9, my assumption is that 9 wouldn’t want to produce 9 games a week just for them to end up on Stan Sport).
Let the host broadcasters do pregame and postgame, AFL controls from first bounce to final siren, employs all the commentators etc. Having said that, some people might think this would lead to bias towards the game, it already exists, as the AFL takes away accreditation from those who speak against it. The only solution would be if the AFL sold the wholesale rights to the game, which could then be on sold as a finished package, but the only company who could probably do that is SEN and I’m not sure that would be a net positive for the game (the hope with in house production would be that the AFL would prioritise better camera angles for the game, SEN would prioritise being cheap).
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This might not be a bad idea. I just fear that the graphics look live stream like similar to the NBL when they first started in house production. Even their in studio looks very live stream like.
If the AFL put the correct time, resources and money into it, it can be a success. Then, broadcasters could have their own commentators over a clean feed (similar to what Seven/Fox do for the BBL, Tests)
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That’s a good point.
The AFL can provide anywhere between just the clean feed (video only) all the way through to full match coverage, or anywhere in between as needed by the host broadcaster. I could see Ch7 having their own people for a Friday night game, where as a Sunday arvo interstate game might just take the AFL feed with maybe one or two people in the studio for a pregame show.
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Echo Point added .
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2005 action movie Mr and Mrs Smith, which starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, will be remade as a drama series by Amazon Studios.
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The remake nobody wants or cares about.
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I’ve just watched ‘The Record’. I think it is quite a good documentary, but it really feels like a knock-off ‘The Test’ or ‘All or Nothing’. The storyline/timeline and overall content was great, but the editing is just so inconsistent. Some parts they use match footage, others they use photos. Some parts they put names of interviewees or those on screen up, others they don’t. They started by showing wickets and those batters’ scores, then after a few they just stopped. They used different styles for different sections of the same episode. And the subtitles! They must have been auto written, as most of the words get lost in accents and cricket jargon. Overall it was good, but I think it could have been much better.
I presume that there will be a TV special on Fox and 7/9 like The Test.
Speak for yourself. I’m a big fan of both PWB and Donald Glover. Hope this will be great.
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Coming 2 America finally streaming in six days time. Hopefully it lives up to the original in some capacity.
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Several US media outlets are reporting that Amazon wants to show more NFL matches exclusively, when the new broadcast deals start in 2023.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/04/amazon-wants-to-be-exclusive-thursday-nfl-broadcaster-in-2023.html
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Do we know what time the AFL doco comes out tomorrow?
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Amazon Prime has the SVOD rights to A Very British Scandal in Australia, NZ and North America.
A Very English Scandal premiered in Australia on BBC First and later aired on the ABC.