In Germany, you can also get it via RTL and Prime. I’m wondering if an indirect subscribe might work better?
I just popped in here to write about this; I’ve had so much fun watching it so far. The characters are really something different 
, and I definitely want to see more. I’m very curious to see how it develops.
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Just an update on this. We watched a couple of other things on HBO. For example The Lost Boys, which we hadn’t seen for years. The picture quality was exceptional.
My wife had the idea of sticking Superman on again and it was still rubbish: terrible compression and digital artefacts all over the place. It looks like it is only that title effected, which just happened to be the first thing we watched.
I’m just surprised that no one has complained about it, because as my wife says: Germans really know how to complain.
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@Nikola Southlands is coming to Netflix in the UK. It might be worth keeping an eye out to see if it is going to be on in your region.
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Looking forward to this…
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Normally not my cup of tea but Hollywood Demons on TLC is a good watch so far. I’d left the US (the first time) by the time the Stephen Collins revelations came to light. And I had no idea so many of the Power Rangers actors had troubled lives, including suicides.
Just watched this mini series set in NI during the troubles. Really enjoyed it…
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Interesting email from Sky today. They will start bundling (“for free”) Disney+, HBO Max and Hayu into my sub with no extra cost. Similar to bundled Netflix, these will be standard with ads versions of the subscriptions, but does effectively knock down the price of the non-ad versions too because there is still a cost to the ad supported subs.
I did wonder how they would manage the transition from currently being the only streaming source for a lot of HBO stuff to HBO Max launch, seems like this is part of the deal.
For context, I get Sky through Sky Stream.
More details: All your favourite streaming apps available on Sky - they will be included with Ultimate TV packages only.
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I’m wondering if Sky Deutschland may do something similar, although HBO Max appears to be working with Prime or RTL+ for the bundled packages.
One of the things they did domestically is differentiated HBO from HBO Max.
HBO had a viable streaming product for probably 10 years before Max, but they only ever viewed that as a supplemental way to watch stuff from their library of content from their traditional linear station. For reasons I never understood they treated the “compete with Netflix” app as a completely separate product and so to entice people to subscribe created dedicated Max content that was not available on their linear service nor from their legacy streaming app. There is probably something similar in place for their international licensing that will allow them to launch with some content without having to break their existing licensing contracts
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I was searching Amazon for a show called Sandbaggers, a 70s british show about MI6 that is supposed to be excellent. The algorithm has twigged I have an interest it didn’t know about and has now started recommending me a trove of stuff I didnt know they had. I’ve now gone through S1 of BBC’s House of Cards, and this week pivoted to a mini series about the Cambridge Five called Spies with a young(ish) Tom Hollander. It was absolutely absurd. Almost nothing in the show is actually what happened and amusingly, if they introduced Cairncross I never saw him (the show was made a decade or so afyer he was confirmed as a fifth member).
WTF is the point in making a miniseries like that? Has anyone ever seen it?
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Did you watch it??
Not yet. You?
Yeah, I really liked it - not as much as I liked Detectorists, but he set himself an impossibly high bar there. It’s gorgeous and occasionally melancholic but always gentle; everything you expect from Mackenzie Crook.
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Brilliant, you’re right about Detectorists, very hard to follow, but if it’s 80% as good it’ll be great.
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Finished Andor after starting it a few years back and getting sidetracked. Excellent watch.
And or what?
Sorry…sorry…
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I started this one this week and its excellent. It’s a textbook illustration of the areas where British TV has historically had advantages over US tv as it includes only about 8 people, uses about 3 cheap sets, but through smart writing and good acting it does something that expensive, good looking US TV rarely comes close to
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Sounds like this may be worth a look
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