TV News: Ryan Murphy, who I literally forgot created the 911 franchise, has announced plans for another spinoff for the flagship series on ABC. Currently, Murphy has on air, that I’m aware of: 911, 911 lone Star, American Sports Story, monsters, Grotesquery, and Dr. Odyssey. Does he have enough shows? Has he taken over TV yet?
TV Shows Watched: Where’s Wanda: S1E1 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Last Days Of The Space Race: S1E1 (Hulu) no audio description, Murder In A Small Town: S1E2 (Hulu) no audio description, American Sports Story: S1E5? (Hulu) with audio description, Nobody Wants This: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, and Only Murders In The Building: S4E6 (Hulu) with audio description.Podcasts: What A Day (Politics: VP Debate), 538 Politics (Politics/VP Debate)
Youtube: None
Movies: You’re Next (Netflix) with audio description
Well, I make no promises to continue forward on two of the shows on my list. So, i suppose we’ll talk about them down here.I’m definitely moving on from murder In A Small Town. The lack of audio description makes this a tough watch as most murder mystery/crime procedurals are, as we get very little clues. Only verbalized clues, and since this seems to be a new murder each week in this small town, everyone will be dead by Season 3. I think the show is OK if you are able to watch it live, but my advice to the suits at FOX is that when you have a freshman drama like this, it is your job to get every eyeball (sighted or not) on this show. Your “next day” is on Hulu. I don’t care what bizarre complicated bullshit you need to pull off to make it happen, but these shows should be getting passed through with audio description, otherwise your live+ numbers are going to be affected by the loss of blind and low vision users (and likely their families) who aren’t tuning in. Perhaps for 911: Lone Star in its already announced final season, you can make an excuse for apathy, or for a ratings juggernaut like The Masked Singer, you can ignore what I’m saying. but there is zero excuse when shows like this and Rescue: High Surf aren’t passing audio description on. If/When they get cancelled, i will laugh and dance on their graves, since you did not do everything you needed to do to make the show popular. And why would you pay for audio description that can only ever be heard once anyway? What is that? What do you have to gain in this modern streaming era by not packaging it with your show in off-network airings?
The second show I’m dragging is Hulu’s Last Days of The Space Age, which is part of Hulu’s storied career of having “Hulu Original’ slapped on things that are not “Hulu originals” but just “Hulu Exclusives”, where they buy a show made in another country, and most of these never debut with audio description. Some never get it. Some get it way alter down the road. I think The Artful Dodger eventually got audio description. So, why would I suffer through more episodes of this? I’ll wait and see if they ever add audio description, and at that time, if I feel like watching it, maybe I will. I probably won’t, because I’m sure there will be other shows at that point, but if that is the model Hulu wants to operate with, then they’ll have to live with the idea that I may never watch another episode.
