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| Hello once again and thanks for opening today's Inside Streaming. It's so silly that we still can't stream the Oscar ceremony online. Even live sports have, at this point, mostly migrated over to streaming platforms in some shape or form. If we can watch the Super Bowl on Paramount+, the Independent Spirit Awards on YouTube, and the Netflix Cup on Netflix, why is Hollywood's supposedly BIGGEST NIGHT limited to your local ABC affiliate? It feels archaic in 2024, and forces otherwise law-abiding citizens to poke around the internet for bootleg streams just to see the ceremony. I have no idea why Disney hasn't worked out a deal with the Academy to stream these annual events on Hulu or Disney+ but it's long past time. They're losing tens of millions in ad revenue to Twitch streamers and pirate phishing scams at this point. Just dumb. Lon
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| 1 | | Streaming services took home just one award during Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony. Netflix picked up its lone trophy for Wes Anderson's live-action short "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar"; this was the filmmaker's first-ever Oscar win. More: - Netflix and Apple had combined for a total of 32 nominations but were almost entirely shut out.
- Apple's "Killers of the Flower Moon" was nominated for Best Picture and its star, Lily Gladstone, had been considered a major contender for Best Actress; the studio ended the evening with zero wins.
- Netflix led all studios with 19 nominations across 11 films; Bradley Cooper's "Maestro" was also nominated for Best Picture, among other awards, only to go home empty-handed.
- Christopher Nolan's period biopic "Oppenheimer" won seven total Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
- In 2022, Apple made history as the first streaming service in history to win Best Picture, for the family drama "CODA."
- Amazon MGM Studios picked up the Best Adapted Screenplay award for "American Fiction," which debuted in theaters and premiered last week on its MGM+ service.
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| 2 | | According to online reports, Elon Musk's X is planning to launch a video app for smart TVs. Musk confirmed the rumors on Friday, sharing a post about his plans with the caption: "Coming soon." More: - According to the original post that Musk re-shared, viewers will be able to stream long-form X videos directly on smart TVs.
- Musk has announced a number of new features in development for X, which he seeks to convert into an "everything app."
- He's also shared that on 8 out of every 10 visits to X, a user watches a video, suggesting wider potential for the company as a streaming platform.
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| 3 | | DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 11 THE MCBEE DYNASTY: THE REAL AMERICAN COWBOYS: Debut reality series taking viewers behind the scenes at McBee Farm & Cattle, a family-owned rural Missouri farming and ranch business on the cusp of either a major windfall or financial ruin. [Peacock] LAKEFRONT EMPIRE: Debut real estate series from HGTV exploring luxury properties around the Lake of the Ozarks, between St. Louis and Kansas City, sometimes referred to as the "Hamptons of the Midwest." Season 1 premieres today on both Max and cable. [Max] COCOMELON: The iconic musical animated collection for young kids -- which started life on YouTube before becoming one of Netflix's most-watched shows -- returns for a 10th season. [Netflix] YOUNG ROYALS: The teen drama series from Sweden finds young Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding) attending an elite boarding school, where he embarks on a tentative romance with a male classmate (Omar Rudberg). Most of the third and final season debuts today, with the series finale following next week. [Netflix] | | | |
| 4 | | Paramount+ ordered a first season for the British crime thriller series "The Crow Girl," based on a novel by Erik Axl Sund. Eve Myles will star as DCI Jeanette Kirkland, who teams with a psychotherapist (Katherine Kelly) to investigate the gruesome murder of a teenage boy. More: - Actor Milly Thomas -- a veteran of Netflix's "The Crown" and "Sex Education" -- created the series and will write episodes.
- The project comes from Buccaneer Media; the same company was developing another series, "The Doll Factory," for Paramount+ before the streamer canceled the project along with a number of other international originals.
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| 5 | | Conan O'Brien's long-awaited travel series "Conan O'Brien Must Go" hits Max on April 18. The first season features four episodes, in which the comedian and chat show host visits Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and Ireland. More: - O'Brien announced the date during an on-stage conversation with comedian Nick Kroll at South by Southwest (SXSW).
- The show's opening narration was provided by iconic filmmaker and documentarian Werner Herzog.
- The series is inspired by segments from O'Brien's talk shows and his podcast, "Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan."
- The show was first announced back in 2020, when O'Brien announced that his TBS series "Conan" would conclude the following year; he'd also produced a travel series for TBS, titled "Conan Without Borders."
- According to O'Brien, episodes were recorded over the course of 7-10 days in the countries.
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| 6 | | The Prime Video period horror anthology "Them" returns for a second season on April 25. The first installment was set in Compton in 1952; Season 2 remains in Los Angeles, but leaps forward in time to 1991. More: - Season 1 star Deborah Ayorinde returns for Season 2 as a new character: LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve.
- In the new episodes, Reeve's investigating the gruesome murder of a foster home mother.
- Pam Grier co-stars as Reeve's own mother.
- Series creator and showrunner Little Marvin returned for Season 2.
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| 7 | | Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building" added yet another notable comic actor to its ever-expanding Season 4 cast. Zach Galifianakis joined the ensemble, which now also includes recent additions Kumail Nanjiani, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, and Molly Shannon. More: - Meryl Streep will also reprise her Season 3 role for the new episodes.
- No details about Galifianakis' role were disclosed except that he's a pivotal part of Season 4's central mystery.
- Season 4 finds main trio Charles, Oliver, and Mabel (Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) splitting their time between New York and Los Angeles as they investigate the killing of Charles' stunt double, Sazz Pataki (Jane Lynch).
- Martin co-created the series along with John Hoffman.
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- Apple won't make major changes to its "Friday Night Baseball" line-up for the 2024 season; the first two games stream on Friday, March 29.
- Roku renewed the reality series "Side Hustlers" for a second season; the show follows hosts Emma Grede and Ashley Graham as they mentor and potentially invest in women entrepreneurs and their startups.
- A recorded version of comedian Alex Edelman's hit Broadway one-man show "Just for Us" premieres on HBO and Max in April; the autobiographical show recalls an evening the Jewish comic spent at a meeting of white nationalists in Queens.
- This week's episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" was written with Lori Loughlin in mind, and The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the actress was enthusiastic about parodying her involvement in the college admissions scandal.
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 | Writer | | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." | | This newsletter was edited by Lon Harris | |
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