https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-ne...olumbus-july-4-celebrations-fireworks-parade/ Unless I missed something, Bexley, Delaware, Dublin, Hilliard, Lancaster, Plain City, Sunbury, Westerville, UA, and Worthington all did. Pickerington and Reynoldsburg did not.
Okay, since we're all getting Apple TV accounts, I have a question for those that already have them: what's worth watching? 1. MLS 2. Formula 1 3. Ted Lasso 4. ???? I am aware of 3. Can anyone suggest what spots 4-10 might be?
Slow Horses Severance Shrinking Your Friends and Neighbors Bad Monkey Presumed Innocent Silo Mythic Quest The Studio Other than season 1 and about half of season 2, I'd argue Ted Lasso is average to below average quality in relation to their other original shows. It's really hard to find a dud in their lineup. They're the opposite of Netflix, which requires wading through a voluminous amount of slop to find good stuff. Plenty of options, very little filler.
When AppleTV first launched, there was hype around "The Morning Show". It was nominated a bunch of times and even won various awards. However, seeing as it focused on some hot-button topics, I'm guessing it might seem a little dated five or so years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_Show_(American_TV_series)
AppleTV is my favorite streaming service. For all mankind, slow horses, pluribus, morning show, the studio, silo, severence, shrinking, foundation, sugar, bad monkey, mythic quest and your friends and neighbors are all worth watching. Palm Royale, loot, and murderbot are pretty good too.
Only going to add to the impressive list above that Stick is worth checking out. Similar feel like Lasso but golf themed.
Interesting Press Release from MLS HQ today: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-...ership-heading-into-mls-cup-presented-by-audi
Ok, so that first number is playoff viewership. So that means viewers per regular season match (assuming a standard 15 match week) was 246,666. So, there has been a 464,334 increase in viewers per match? A damn near tripling of viewership? I'm either calling shenanigans on that, or that removing the extra paywall for the playoffs is doing a lot of work there.
Sign me up to see next year's numbers. (Plus there's a few shows on AppleTV I want to watch, but that's for another thread.) Since they've made these games available to everyone with AppleTV, I wouldn't be surprised if they're comparable. Availability goes way up, but that doesn't matter if they don't watch. I can't imagine a lot of people paid the annual fee to watch games. We'll never know how many people would have paid a single-team fee, but it probably wouldn't have been many. I'd imagine 99% of people wouldn't have minded the extra small amount to watch every game. This TV situation remains one of best in sports, IMO. (The other four leagues are a mess, but their logic is to spread it out to make it more noticable for casuals. Imagine being a Brewers fan in Central Ohio, especially if you don't have FanDuel channels.)
That increase seems reasonable. Last year's playoffs only had Miami playing 3 games, and did not have Son or Muller. This year Miami has played 5 games, LAFC played 3, and Vancouver has played 4. San Diego likely also likely helped draw in some extra eyes from Mexicans and Mexican-Americans with Chucky, even though he wasn't really playing a whole lot. So couple all of that with dropping the paywall, and yea that seems pretty reasonable.
This has existed since May 2023 on the AppleTV device (tvOS 16.5) and since December 2023 on the iPad (iPadOS 17.2). It's not on the iPhone I assume due to screen size. This update adds Multiview support in the Apple TV app for watching up to four live sporting events at once on Apple TV 4K (available for MLS Season Pass and Friday Night Baseball*) and includes performance and stability improvements.
If you like Sci-fi there is some good sci-fi on there. I really like Foundation, which is an Asimov adaptation, Invasion which is a great story with a bunch of lesser known actors, I thought Murderbot was pretty funny and weird, Monarch Legacy of Monsters is a show in the Kong / Godzilla franchise that is happening but I've never seen any of those and I enjoyed it. Dark Matter was pretty cool, and I will certainly sign off on everything recommended above, but one of my favorite things is For All Mankind. It details the spacerace from the 60s up through the beginning of the 2000s... But with a very different lens. If you like stories about our astronauts and the space race... This is the one. Episode one will grab you. Ronald D Moore is behind the series and if you like sci-fi you know exactly who that is. 4 seasons and they are working on the 5th currently. Oh, and there is a miniseries called Masters of the Air that is to bombers in WWII what Band of Brothers was to airborne and ground soldiers. Hanks and Spielberg producing again. B-17 crews. Also wonderful.
Just another instance of Apple only really giving a shit about improving the experience for people who buy into their overpriced closed off hardware schemes. They finally released an actual Android app in the last year. They don't truly care about people who pay for their services if they don't use their hardware, it seems.
I enjoyed Stick, too. Pretty damn funny, not a surprise given the two main male actors in it coming from such comedy backgrounds. Especially Marc Maron.