10 Stories You Should Know: 09/06/2022

Welcome to newsletter number one...

Welcome to the first edition of this brand new endeavor. Each workday - at about 7:00 a.m. ET - you’ll receive a newsletter with ten media/TV/streaming oriented links to the stories you should know about that day.

Because of the timing, it’s going to be a mix of stories from late in the previous day (which you might have missed), coverage from international markets and pieces that have just posted that you might not have seen.

The goal is to provide a quick jump-start to your day in a short and concise format.

I’m always interested in your feedback. You can either reply directly to this newsletter, or email at rick@allyourscreens.com.

Fox Producer's Warning Against Jeanine Pirro Surfaces In Dominion Defamation Suit (NPR)
The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.

John Dickerson Leads CBS Into Battle To Capture Streaming Viewers For Evening-News (Variety)
Dickerson will lead CBS News’ step into an emerging frontier, an evening-news program that doesn’t air on a TV network, but streams instead, presumably for a younger, more tech-savvy audience. “CBS News Prime Time With John Dickerson,” a new hour-long program, debuts tonight at 7 p.m. eastern on CBS News’ streaming outlets, and will appear live Monday through Thursday.  The goal is for Dickerson, a former host of “Face The Nation” and a longtime political journalist and analyst, to provide insight and historical context around the events of the day so viewers gain a deeper understanding of the news cycle.

’House Of The Dragon’ Has Not Been A Hit Everywhere On The Globe (My Broadband)
The premiere of HBO’s big Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon had a shockingly poor performance on DStv in South Africa, raising questions about the value of international premium content on the service.

Figures shared by the Broadcasting Research Council of South Africa (BRCSA) and first reported by TV journalist Thinus Ferreira show only 7,701 viewers tuned in for the first episode on Monday, 22 August 2022.

SkyShowtime Announces European Roll-out Dates (Sky TV)
SkyShowtime - a joint venture between Comcast and Paramount Global - will officially launch on September 20th in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, before expanding into the Netherlands later this year.

SkyShowtime will continue its roll out across Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) over the coming months and through Q1 2023. CEE markets include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Specific launch dates and pricing in these markets will be announced in the coming months.

Pauley Perrette Says She Suffered a “Massive Stroke” Last Year (The Hollywood Reporter)
In a social media post shared on Friday, the former NCIS star shared a video with the caption, “It’s 9/2 One year ago I had a massive stoke. Before that I lost so many beloved family and friends, And daddy And then Cousin Wayne Yet still a survivor after this traumatic life I’ve been given so far… And still so grateful, Still so full of faith, And STILL HERE!”

Studiocanal’s ‘Infiniti’ Leads Raft of Canal+ Creation Original Global Sales (Variety)
At the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Biarritz, Studiocanal revealed further sales on its high-budget sci-fi thriller Infiniti, as well as a raft of sales on other Canal+ Creation Originale drama series. Infiniti has been acquired by AMC for the U.S. market, while international streamer MHZ Choice has picked up U.S. and English-speaking Canadian rights to Paris Police 1905 and UFOs.

Most Australians Concerned About Price Of Subscriptions, Don’t Want To Pay For Sport (The Sydney Morning Herald)
A report from Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by lobby group Free TV, found almost 60 per cent of the public are concerned about the cost of subscriptions while more than 50 per cent of Australians aren’t willing to pay for sport at all. The findings will be presented in Canberra on Tuesday as the sector waits for the release of a discussion paper that will start the review of Australia’s anti-siphoning laws.

‘Roswell, New Mexico’ Showrunner Shares How He Changed Season 4 Finale Into Series Ender After Cancellation (Variety)
Huge spoilers, but if you’ve watched the episode, there is a lot of discussion about the story tweaks that happened once producers knew the show wasn’t returning.

Tourism Bureau Helped Develop New Cooking Network Show (WMBF News)
The city of Myrtle Beach and 12 Grand Strand restaurants will be featured on a new cooking competition show.

Visit Myrtle Beach partnered with The Workshop Content Studios to develop “Chef Swap at The Beach.”

Chef Amanda Freitag will take chefs out of their resident kitchens and swap them into each other’s restaurant to prepare a new dish for evaluation by a panel of judges. The chefs won’t know which kitchen they’ll be in or what they’ll be preparing.

Johanna Wilson Jones, a Myrtle Beach-based food writer and Dylan Foster, the chef and owner of Two Sons Seafood, will be judges on the show as well.

The Collectors Who Saved Video-Game History From Oblivion (New Yorker)
This might seem a bit off-point for a media newsletter. But besides the fact that it is just a great read, seeing this devotion to collecting the paperwork and other obscure minutia of the history of video gaming made me wish that someone was organizing a similar effort for the history of television. Sure, there’s a Museum of Television. But it’s focused more on the actual television programs than all of the odd promotional packets and other things that seem to disappear as soon as they are sent out:

The oldest video games are now about seventy years old, and their stories are disappearing. The companies that created early games left behind design documents and production timelines and story bibles, but these kinds of ephemera—and even the games themselves—are easily lost. Paper mildews. Disks demagnetize. Bits are said to “rot” as small errors accumulate in stored data. Hard drives die, and so do the people who produced games in the first place.

Generations of kids grew up playing these video games and helped to jump-start the digital revolution. But games aren’t always treated as a serious part of the culture, and historians and archivists are only starting to preserve them. (One museum curator even told me that a federal grant for his game-preservation work ended up on a U.S. senator’s list of wasteful projects.) The challenge isn’t just technical: it’s also about convincing the public that game history is history, and that it’s well worth saving.