As it happened, I thought I'd try a VPN and fire up my Disney+ app to see if it worked. Disney+ in the UK is basically Hulu & Disney+ combined. So I guess that's how I get treated when I'm "abroad" because it gave me the Oscars, and the stream worked well for the brief period I bothered watching. The Oscars moved from Sky Cinema (audience tiny) to ITV (audience 500,000 or so) this year. But I confess I went to bed rather than stay up.
I liked Anora, enjoyed Conclave, thoroughly enjoyed the madness of The Substance, loved Dune 2, but haven't yet seen many of the other major films. The Brutalist will get watched when I can find a spare day, and I definitely do want to see A Real Pain. I can't see the Academy selling the Oscars to Netflix. Sure, they'll get a decent global audience (although a regular reminder that much of the world is asleep or going to work on a Monday morning when the awards are being handed out, so the timings are terrible for anyone not in the Americas). But it'd be doing a deal with the devil! When even Greta Gerwig can only get a modest theatrical deal from Netflix for her upcoming Narnia movie, why would they sell the rights to a company that doesn't actually believe in theatrical, the bedrock of the industry? Maybe there were glitches this time, but Disney will sort them, and indeed must do so before it launches its ESPN service later in the year. Adam On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all, there were tech issues that kept subscribers from logging on > right before 7 p.m. ET, when the Disney streamer was scheduled to stream > the Oscars for the first time (which included Disney+ subscribers unable to > get on the Hulu tile for those who have the "Disney Bundle")--and then, at > 10:30 p.m. ET, forgetting that almost all award shows run over, Hulu pulled > the plug on the stream with the big awards yet to be handed out: > > https://www.thewrap.com/hulu-oscars-glitch-what-happened/ > > The show went around 20 minutes over--the season premiere of "Idol" > started at around 10:50 p.m., with the local news around 11:20--people are > noting that Netflix's stream of the SAG awards went without a hitch and > that ABC/Disney's deal with the Academy runs out in 2028. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cb6d1903-2d16-4b74-ba59-d4691660b2a9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cb6d1903-2d16-4b74-ba59-d4691660b2a9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDJKkvYzTWhnB-i8PU1rwFOHfAcjfeLZ%2BYv%3DKfzcPwqdw%40mail.gmail.com.
