What Are You Watching

[rostasi]

 

[JSngry]

I use Pluto to watch some old sitcoms and game shows (currently The Drew Carey Show and 25 Words or Less) and TV Westerns (currently on Season 16 of Gunsmoke and almost finished with Wanted Dead Or Alive, Somehow this Classica thing got a push recommen,dation, so hey.

I used to think that The Roku Channel & Pluto were more or less the same. There's certainly overlap, but enough of a difference to matter.

And then there's Tubi, which has buttloads of early TV (like, EARLY) and other uber-niche type stuff. Like, I just finished all 4 seasons of the two-network, 2.5 premise Joey Bishop 1960s sitcom, which is nowhere near as shitty as today's online consensus will have it. It's a warts and all time capsule.

All of this shit has commercials, but hell, this notion of commercial-free TV runs contrary to my upbringing!

[rostasi]

I used to regularly watch Slow TV on Pluto until they pulled it a few years ago.
Apparently, Paramount wasn't making enough so they let it go. Haven't been back since. This is a regular thing with me and TV as you've probably guessed by now.

[JSngry]

I just wait for shit to show back up somewhere. It usually does, eventually.

Tubi has some old Loretta Young shows that are...epic. I thought I knew what to expect, but boy was I underprepared.

 

Apparently Slow TV (4 seasons) is now on Fubo, which is partially owned by Paramount.

I don't do Fubo, that's for cord- cutters, so it's not free. Plus for me, there would be a lot of redundancy.

But it's not gone.

[rostasi]

I'm not sure that it's the same "Slow TV" (Seasons?) that I'm talking about - and, yes, I'm not paying 85 bucks a month(!) to find out. The original Norwegian Slow TV is what I used to watch - especially while walking on a treadmill during the extra hot months when it would reach triple digits out - or just having it on the wall during the day with the sounds filtering thru the house speakers.

Much of it is on YouTube and so that's an option, I guess ... but, again, shows disappearing while you're in the middle of watching them on some channel, then you have to pay for them later as they migrate to somewhere else.

We had some visitors from Köln a while back and had a live stream showing from a Namib desert waterhole on the screen. They screamed "Hey! We've been there!" and talked about their adventures on that trip. It was a pretty remarkable coincidence.