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Apple Inks Deal With Steven Spielberg for 'Amazing Stories' Sci-Fi Series

gnipgnop said:
I can see the idea of doing an anthology show, but I'm not sure it really needed to use the 'Amazing Stories' brand. How big of a draw will that really be?
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Well, because Spielberg created the original, they can call it “Steven Speilberg’s Amazing Stories.” That’s a draw.
 
brian3uk said:
If they're gonna keep doing TV shows I hope they move them into the TV app instead of being slapped all over the Music app like the others. Makes no sense.
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Yeah, iTunes is miserable for the content. To see TV shows I have to choose:

> Music (drop down list in upper left corner)
> Browse (in the top blue button-like bar)
> TV & Movies (in blue font underline text tab-like bar).

You would think I could just choose TV Shows in the drop down list in the upper corner. There I see nothing. Unless I click on the blue button that stays store. And then I see lots of things I can buy.

What a mess.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
They were only less stressful if you were a kid, living in the naiveté of not comprehending what 70,000 nuclear warheads that very nearly did launch any number of times would do to the world. Also, as a knee-jerk reaction culturally to the hippy dippy idealism of the 1970s, the 80s were not a great decade if you were not a middle class white kid. The nostalgia being sold to us now is lazy as hell, repackaged as a simpler wonderful time, just as the 50s were in the 80s, the 70s were in the 90s, and the 80s are today. Most of the people who actually buy into each of these manufactured nostalgia waves are kids who were too young to be conscious of what it was like at the time, or worse, kids who weren't even alive at the time but unable to find their place in the current time, latch on to some earlier time to unrealistically feel part of instead.
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I was a kid in the '80s, and trust me, the thought of nuclear war kept me up at night.
 
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D.T. said:
How do you have any idea about the quality? If anything, given Spielberg's involvement and a $5M per episode budget, this sounds like it _would_ actually be competitive in the premium content market!
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Maybe. I watched the original "Amazing Stories" and while I thought it was fun (I was a kid at the time) it didn't really blow me away. They are clearly going to try and up the game this time and perhaps I'll love it. However, spending a ton of money doesn't automatically make a show great.
 
barkomatic said:
Maybe. I watched the original "Amazing Stories" and while I thought it was fun (I was a kid at the time) it didn't really blow me away. They are clearly going to try and up the game this time and perhaps I'll love it. However, spending a ton of money doesn't automatically make a show great.
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No, it only means they won't be very budget limited. Can you imagine trying to make GOT on a $250K an episode budget? Look at Westworld (which is terrific BTW), it had a huge budget, so big, they were forced into some re-writes (removing scenes, etc.), potentially limiting creativity.

I'm hoping the show as kind of a side effect, attracts some great talent for other original programming. You know, kind of a "Wow, look what they're doing with Amazing Stories, I'll pitch my idea", and hopefully some of those turn into the next Fargo or Legion.

Agree totally budget does not necessarily equate to quality.
 
So basically Apple is just bankrolling this and it will be exclusive to Apple Music?
 
I still don't see Apple's strategy here. Where do these shows live? Apple Music? Is there a dedicated TV service coming soon? All you can eat shows and movies from iTunes, plus original content. I'd pay $40 a month for that.
 
I really loved these shows in my youth. Now I gotta find these shows and rewatch. To the internets!
 
Carpool karaoke is it available in the United Arab Emirates and I don’t know why. No one is talking about it and I know a few other countries where the shows are not available either. Why? All Netflix original content is available worldwide, why can’t Apple do the same?
 
jdillings said:
Apple sure does love remakes: Carpool Karaoke was a remake of the recurring segment from The Late Late Show, Planet of the Apps was a remake of Shark Tank, and Amazing Stories will be remake of the 1980s show. If Apple wants to be successful in this space, they will need to come up with some original ideas. This "me too" streaming strategy isn't going to get them any where.
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iPhone 8 is a remake of iPhone 6, 6S and 7. LOL
 
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barkomatic said:
The first show Apple will create that I might actually watch--though this is far from the quality of HBO and Netflix. I guess you gotta start somewhere.
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How can you tell regarding the quality of the show? Nothing has been made so far.
 
thirdeyeopen666 said:
Awesome. This was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
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Hmmm, I don't recall this show, even though I was in high school at the time. I'll have to check out the original online.
I agree about Hollywood running out of ideas, but it does sound like something I would like.
Unless  make us sign up for some expensive service to watch it, I'm in!
 
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