This was originally going to be a post asking why nobody seems to have documented Max Headroom's appearances, but I managed to find the only resource on the entire internet which actually does. So instead I'll just talk about what I remember of these shows. Who knows—maybe someday, somebody will find them on VHS and archive them for posterity.
Here is the resource, in all its oldschool glory.
I used to have a few Max Headroom things on tape and rewatched them a bunch back in the day. All long gone now, of course. I suddenly got a hankering for that particular piece of nostalgia.
I know about most of Max Headroom's appearances. Something something Xmas Special. The original movie that started it all. The remake of said movie. The sci-fi TV series. Art of Noise's Paranoimia music video. And of course the short-lived talk show. But the things I had on tape were kind of like the very first things he did after being popularized by the first movie.
First thing he did was "host" a series of music videos. And not just any music videos, but the weirdest music videos (and the weirdest music) they could get their hands on. It was obviously the going theme. Two songs I remember in particular were Public Image Ltd.'s Rise and Yoko Ono's Hell in Paradise. (Seriously, the music and the video content are so bizarre that I could legitimately label it as psychologically damaging.) According to the resource, this series of hosting events was called MaxTrax.
Not long after that, he again "hosted" something for Cinemax—this time a series of B-movies of roughly the same caliber that one would regularly find on Mystery Science 3000 in the 90s. Meaning that once again, "weird" was the whole point. Scared to Death was one of them. The other one I remembered was The Forbidden Zone. According to this blog, a third one was Reefer Madness, and there was a fourth one whose title nobody remembers. According to the Max Headroom resource, this series was called Max's Mondo Madness, and indeed that set off a bell in my memory—I remember seeing it advertised in the HBO/Cinemax catalog.
Anyway, I started out hoping these would just be conveniently waiting on archive.org for me, but I overestimated interest in archiving Max Headroom's legacy. So I guess you can consider this post my humble pebble in the pond to perhaps trigger such archival in the future. It can't hurt. After all, several years ago I asked around to see if anyone had the 1980 broadcast version of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which absolutely did not exist on the internet, and now you can find said collection on archive.org as of about a year ago. (It's not the same thing as the commercial release.)

Hi so I am looking for assistance finding this film I have been thinking about since I was young. What comes to my mind about the film is that it was made sometime in the1970s” or the 1980 and basically a guy is on a farm or ranch with his grandfather and then a women shows up and sneaks around with sexually behind the old man’s back. There was also a scene where the two was in a car having you know what and almost ran over the old man. Man and women took a shower together on farm and he fist pump his hand to the sky celebrate having sex with women behind grandfathers back. All and all I know it came on cable with those late night x rated shows and movies like showcase, Cinemax, basically called after dark., I can’t get this film out of my head.

Hi so I am looking for assistance finding this film I have been thinking about since I was young. What comes to my mind about the film is that it was made sometime in the1970s” or the 1980 and basically a guy is on a farm or ranch with his grandfather and then a women shows up and sneaks around with sexually behind the old man’s back. There was also a scene where the two was in a car having you know what and almost ran over the old man. Man and women took a shower together on farm and he fist pump his hand to the sky celebrate having sex with women behind grandfathers back. All and all I know it came on cable with those late night x rated shows and movies like showcase, Cinemax, basically called after dark., I can’t get this film out of my head.

Hi so I am looking for assistance finding this film I have been thinking about since I was young. What comes to my mind about the film is that it was made sometime in the1970s” or the 1980 and basically a guy is on a farm or ranch with his grandfather and then a women shows up and sneaks around with sexually behind the old man’s back. There was also a scene where the two was in a car having you know what and almost ran over the old man. Man and women took a shower together on farm and he fist pump his hand to the sky celebrate having sex with women behind grandfathers back. All and all I know it came on cable with those late night x rated shows and movies like showcase, Cinemax, basically called after dark., I can’t get this film out of my head.

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This is my first alternate timeline, please note that it is fan made and not to be taken seriously, it's simply made just for fun.
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In this Timeline, Warner Bros (which was a family owned movie studio up until the 1960s. in OTL) continues to be family owned.
1955: Harry and Albert decide to kick out Jack from Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc as they see him as a threat to the business. Harry has his daughter Betty Warner succeed in the family business in 1957 and Ted Ashley as chairman.
1956: After being kicked out, Jack creates his own movie studio called the J.L Warner film company.
1957: Betty becomes the new President of Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. and the company recovers from the ramifications of the paramount decree and the rise of television by making low budget films for TV and higher budget films for the theatre.
1963: Warner Bros. Cartoons doesn't shut down.
1964: After getting back on track, Warner Bros. starts to diversify into other entertainment genres by buying DC Comics and MGM's Animation studio, later merged it with Warner Bros. Cartoons and renaming it to Warner Bros. Animation Productions. it's first animated movie was made in 1939 called The Wizard of Oz, And it will continue to make animated movies competing with Disney. (It will basically be the DreamWorks before DreamWorks.)
1967: Warner Bros. does not merge with Seven Arts and is not bought by Kinney National Company, however they do buy Associated Artists Productions as well as Seven Arts' pre-1953 WB film and cartoon library bringing them back to the studio, Seven Arts is still bought by Kinney and is merged with MGM(after Kinney bought it from Kirk Kerkorian) forming MGM Seven Arts studios. later renamed to MGM Communications
1969: Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies doesn't end and continues to this day, making it the oldest running cartoon series in history, Chuck Jones makes them as well as his own creations which are distributed by Warner Bros.
1971: Warner Bros. buys a cable company named Television Communications Corporation, after the merger, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc is reorganized as Warner Bros. Services, Inc. Warner Bros. Pictures becomes a Subsidiary.
1973: The J.L Warner film Company renames itself to Tristar Pictures
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Media Landscape in the 70s
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• MGM Communications(formerly Kinney National): Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Inc, Atlantic Records, Elektra Records
• Warner Bros. Services, Inc: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc, Warner Bros. Records, Inc, DC Comics, TVC, Lorimar Telepictures Corporation
• Gulf and Western Industries: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Paramount Television, Simon and Schuster,
• Transamerica Corporation: United Artists Pictures, Inc
• 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation
• MCA: Universal City Studios, Universal City Television, MCA Records
• Columbia Pictures Corporation: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, D. Gottlieb & Co.
• Tristar Pictures Corporation(The J.L Warner film company ITL)

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1976: Warner Bros. doesn't buy Atari but rather Sega instead, MGM buys Atari ITL.
1977: Warner Cable(formerly TVC) buys QUBE, and renames it to Warner Cable Communications
1978: Jack L. Warner dies and Tristar is bought by CBS.
1979: Warner Cable Communications launches Nickelodeon, that will later become one of the best networks on TV.
1980: American Express takes a stake in Warner Cable Communications, forming Warner-AmEx Satellite Entertainment.
1981: Sight on Sound launches, it will later become MTV.
1983: News Corporation buys a stake in 20th Century Fox
1984: Warner Bros. buys back American Express' stake in Warner AmEx, and renames it to Warner Bros. Networks. MTV Networks is founded as a division of. Nickelodeon rebrands from the silver ball logo into the splat logo that we know today!
1985: MTV Networks is not sold to Viacom and Merges with VH1
1986: Warner Bros. Buys Hanna Barbera from Taft Broadcasting.
Also in 1985: News Corporation fully buys 20th Century Fox
1988: Sony Corporation buys Columbia Pictures and Tristar Pictures after CBS spun off Tristar Pictures in 1985.
1987: Ted Turner: buys a shrinking MGM Communications and United Artists Pictures and merges them into MGM/UA Communications with Turner Broadcasting System as it's parent company. Turner also makes a deal with WB to distribute it's films on TBS and TNT.
1988: Ahead of the merger with Time, Betty Warner steps down as President and her daughter Cass takes charge. After losing MGM to Turner, Steve Ross becomes chairman and CEO.
1989: After a failed hostile takeover attempt by Paramount Communications(formerly Gulf and Western)Time, Inc buys Warner Bros. Services for $1.84 Million dollars and merges with it forming Time Warner Communications, Inc with Cass as it's President.
Also in 1989: Panasonic buys MCAUniversal.
1990: Warner Cable and American Television and Communications(a cable company under Time) merge, forming Time Warner Cable.
1993: Turner Broadcasting System Buys CBS, Inc. and becomes CBS Corporation, MGM/UA communications becomes Turner entertainment. Cartoon Network was formed.
1994: Time Warner buys ABC instead of The Walt Disney Company.
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Media Landscape in the 90s
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• Time Warner: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, ABC, Time Warner Cable, Time, Inc, HBO, Cinemax
• Panasonic MCA: Universal City Studios, Universal Television, MCA Records
• CBS Corporation: CBS(PRE VIACOM), MGM, United Artists, TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network(PRE VIACOM)
• Viacom: Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Showtime, Cartoon Network(POST VIACOM), TNN, Comedy Central, CBS(POST VIACOM)
• Sony: Columbia Pictures, Tristar Pictures, Columbia Pictures Records
• The Walt Disney Company: Walt Disney Pictures, Miramax, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Television
• News Corp: Fox Entertainment Group, Fox Networks Group,

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1997: Time Warner buys TCI instead of AT&T and Viacom buys CBS Entertainment Networks and Ruby-Spears animation, excluding TBS, CNN and TNT, CBS would later sell MGM back to Kirk.
Also in 1997: Seagram buys Universal from Panasonic as well as Polygram Records.
1998:Time Warner buys the rest of CBS Corporation, sells CBS to Viacom and brings the Turner Networks into Warner Bros. TV Networks.
2000: AOL still buys Time Warner for $162 billion dollars, Cass leads the newly merged company, it still gets the ramifications from the Dot Com bubble however it is less affected, meaning AOL, WCW, Warner Music Group and Time Warner Cable are not spun off.
2001: US West sells half of Time Warner Telecom back to Time Warner Cable, this combined with a stake of ConTel, forms Warner Bros. Telecom or WarnerTel. Time Warner Cable becomes WarnerTel Television. AOL Time Warner becomes the biggest media company in the world.
2004: Seagram sells Universal to General Electric who combines it with NBC to form NBCUniversal.
2005: Viacom, which is owned by National Amusements, splits into two different companies. Viacom and CBS corporation
2006: Disney buys Pixar Animation Studios followed buy a purchase of Marvel Entertainment 3 years later and Lucasfilm later than that.
2007: DreamWorks Pictures is purchased by Viacom/Paramount and becomes DW studios. It also retains DreamWorks Animation.
2009: Following the recent 2008 recession, AOL Time Warner renames back to Time Warner and sells off certain assets. Cass steps down as president and Cole Warner(Cole Hauser in this timeline) becomes the current president.
Also in 2009: Comcast buys a stake in GE's NBCUniversal.
2011: Comcast fully buys NBCUniversal and becomes Comcast Corporation.
2012: News Corporation splits into 21st Century Fox and News Corp.
2013: Viacom spins of DreamWorks.
2014: DreamWorks is almost purchased by Hasbro however the deal doesn't go through.
2016: Time Warner buys DreamWorks and Comcast announces that they will be buying 21st Century Fox.
also in 2016: AT&T announces that they will be buying The Walt Disney Company, which is falling.
2018: AT&T fully buys The Walt Disney Company and renames it to DisneyMedia, LLC.
2019: Comcast completes the purchase of 21st Century Fox(While selling the Fox Broadcasting Company). In it, it get's a stake in hulu who it shares with Time Warner and Viacom and 20th Century Fox which it is renamed to 20th Century Pictures(Similar to how TCF was renamed to 20th Century Studios when it was bought by Disney in OTL).
Also in 2019: CBS and Viacom re-merge to form ViacomCBS.
2022: Time Warner buys Discovery instead of merging with it, Time Warner renames to The Warner Bros. Company
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Media Landscape today
The Warner Bros. Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros Pictures Animation, DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, DC Comics, MGM United Artists Picutres, ABC(ABC News, ABC Sports, ABC Kids, Freeform, ABC owned TV stations, DiC Entertainment) WarnerTel Television, Go Fish Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. TV Networks(MTV Networks(Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1,) HBO, Cinemax, Discovery Channel, Food Network, ID, Discovery Family, WCW, DreamWorks Channel, Nick Jr. Nicktoons, TeeNick, A&E, History Channel, ESPN, TBS, TNT, Magnolia Network, etc,), Warner Music Group, Warner Max, Hulu, Time, Inc, AOL
AT&T/Disney Media: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Touchstone Pictures, Otter Media, Walt Disney Television, Disney Media Networks(Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, National Geographic, National Geographic Partners(73% stake) Disney Plus, Disney Land and Disney World, Star Studios, DIRECTV, U-Verse
Comcast/NBCUniversal: NBC(NBC Sports, NBC kids, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC owned TV stations)Xfinity, Sky, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Pictures, Illumination Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Universal Searchlight Pictures, Universal Television, Hulu, Peacock, Focus Features, Working Title Films, NBCUniversal Networks(USA, SYFY, Telemundo, Oxygen, Bravo, Universal Kids, Qubo, FX, FXX, FX Movie Channel) Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood
ViacomCBS: Paramount Pictures, CBS(CBS media ventures, CBS news, CBS owned TV stations, Smithsonian Channel) Paramount Media Networks(Showtime, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CMT, Paramount Network, BET, Logo), Hulu
Sony Corporation: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Tristar Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Stage 6 Films, Destination Films, Sony Pictures Records, Sony Pictures Television Networks(Game Show Network)
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Warner Bros. is one of the largest movie studio and entertainment conglomerate in the world and one of the fortune 500 companies, it is also the most loved movie studio.
DreamWorks makes more original movies instead of movies based off of books or toys while mocking Disney.
Trolls trilogy is made by Blue Sky Studios.
DreamWorks' latest movie, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a commercial and critical success making over $186 Million dollars in the box office while Pixar's Elemental makes only $53 Million Dollars making it Disney's second worst box office bomb since Mars Needs Moms and causing the company to fall even more.
AOL still exists
WarnerTel is the second biggest telecom company in the world, behind AT&T.
Yeah, I'm kind of a Warner Bros. fanboy as well as a DreamWorks fanboy. But I do like some Pixar and Disney films like Toy Story and Turning Red and including Elemental, Disney is still the biggest so don't get to ruffled up.
I also figured that WB gets more into the Telecom business since they owned TWC.
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There was a guy working in a prison or a military camp (maybe a mental institution). He walks down a long service tunnel (a long hall with pipes) and opens an oven or a boiler and digs around and buries something or retrieves something. I think he digs with a kitchen serving spoon or a screwdriver. Then he exits and walks outside, and I think he's wearing an olive green military surplus coat when he goes outside and it is night. There is fencing outside indicating he's still at some prison or institution. The movie was pretty boring and slow from what I remember.
I remember 1990, but it could have been 1989. It was played constantly on showtime or cinemax or HBO or one of those movie channels. "Escape from"
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My best guess is:
Escape ★★ 1990 (PG)
A fun-loving, care-free Irish officer is sent to oversee the toughest POW prison in Scotland. There, he becomes consumed with keeping the facility secure despite the intricate escape plans laid out by a group of rioters. 90m/C VHS . Brian Keith, Helmut Griem; D: Lamont Johnson.
The Canadian-financed Escape was directed by TV veteran Lamont Johnson. Brian Keith plays a deceptively happy-go-lucky Irish officer put in charge of a Scottish POW camp during World War II. The toughest and most fearsome of the prisoners (Helmut Griem), makes no secret of his escape plans. The breakout is inevitable, but the battle of wills leading up to the breakout is almost as tense as the actual event. The violence in Escape is kept carefully in check within the film's PG-13 limits.
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It could also be:

Escape from the KGB Woof! 1987

A CIA agent escapes from a Soviet prison, taking plans for a new space installation with him. 99m/C VHS . Thomas Hunter, Ivan Desny, Marie Versini, Walter Barns; D: Harald Phillipe.
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It is not the "Prison Break" TV Series. It is not "Lock Up" 1989 with Stallone. It is not "Earnest Goes to Jail" 1990. It is not "Next of Kin" 1989. It is not "Prison" 1987. It is not "Escape from Hell" 1980. It is not "Jacob's Ladder" 1990. It is not "Shocker" 1989 or "Flatliners 1990 or "Toy soldiers" 1991.

I've tried looking for this movie a few times and there are some movies that SEEM like a match but are either too serious (drama not comedy) or doesn't have the right feel or is missing an element. Please keep this in mind. For example, one result that keeps coming up is "Doin' Time" but it doesn't quite fit.
So the main characters in this movie include a girl and one or two guys. The guy(s) for some reason gets in trouble and the entire town (small town) is chasing him/them, including a woman pushing a baby stroller (which she puts a flashing light on top of while pursuing the guy(s)). The girl visits the guy(s) while they are in jail, wearing different disguises, including being a black guy (played by an actual black guy). One of the other inmates keeps escaping and is trying to break some sort of world record for the number of escapes, which he does by the end of the movie and is met by a few women and someone to verify that he escaped enough times to break the record.
I recall that there is some sort of organized fight like boxing (or something else but I think it was boxing) that happens during the movie. The visual for the movie (IIRC) seemed cheap/low budget, like if TV cameras were used into of movie cameras.
The movie "Doin' Time" seems to focus mostly on the jail and the warden vs the main characters that I mentioned, and seemed to go right into the jail/prison life too soon, leaving no time for a town to chase someone down in a comedic fashion.
It might have been a "direct to video" release, which wouldn't surprise me. I just know that I saw it on HBO or Cinemax many years ago. There is the possibility that the movie came out in the 1970's, but I recall it having more of an 80's feel to it. If it was the 1970's, it'd have been the very late 1970's. I'm sure I saw it in the late 1980's, so it's extremely unlikely to have come out in 1990 or after.
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ETA
As a reminder, this movie came out no later than 1990, most likely a few years before that.
The main setting during the movie is the jail, and not just a short period of time with the main characters (likely in their mid 20's) going to other places. So it's not like Wayne's World with a few side adventures linked together with jail being one of them.
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If anyone has seen the movie "Brain Donors," imagine humor similar to that. Also, I tried looking up movies that HBO helped to make and so far nothing from that list seems to match.
I do want to emphasize that the girl (I believe girlfriend of the main guy) did visit him a few times, using a different disguise each time, with one of those being as a black man. (She's a white woman.) Again, not blackface, as an actual black man filled the role for that scene. To add, the one who was trying to break a record for how many times they escaped was (I think) a black man and when he escaped the final time, he came out at some sort of tunnel or something, with a car waiting for him.
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So for this list, I'll be picking the shows I thought were the single most outstanding new release in a specific year, every year, beginning from 2010. Honoring the premise of this post, there shall be no ties, only one show can be the best for any particular year.
NB: For this list I will be mainly acknowledging 1st seasons (even if a series aged poorly afterwards or vice-versa), but in some cases will also take into consideration the impact (or lack there of) the series has had post the 1st season. As always, this list is based on originality, creativity and innovation. Also, writing, acting, visuals, and production are essential elements for any TV series.

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The single best (#1) TV show that premiered every year from 2010 - 2021:

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2014 -

In my opinion, 2014 will go down as one of the best years in scripted television history. That was partly due to big name shows such as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Louie etc., all arguably having their magnum opus seasons that year. But with Breaking Bad ending the previous year (and Netflix not something to be taken too seriously as yet), it seems like cable networks were gunning for the next #1 show. And as silly as that may sound (especially in this day and age), the new releases from that years says it all, with basic and premium cable networks putting out an abundance of high quality content.
So unlike the shows I've mentioned for previous years, I will acknowledge that every show I mention here could be #1, depending on how you look at things. The ambitious time-traveling romance-drama Outlander (Starz); the cold and riveting TV remake of Fargo (FX); the pirate-saga Black Sails (Starz); the hilariously dark-humored anthology Inside No. 9 (BBC Two); the anti-romance comedy You're the Worst (FX); the stonebest-friend comedy Broad City (Comedy Central); the realistically gnarly medical-drama The Knick (Cinemax); and of course the bleak and brooding crime-drama True Detective (HBO). There was also the earliest season of The Leftovers (HBO), but while that show went on to be one of the greatest, it hadn't fully found itself in 2014. So, for the #1 'best series of 2014', I decided to go with the series that had one of the most interesting storytelling concepts television has ever seen. An efficient and uncomplicated one at that:
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• The Affair (Showtime)
• Genre: Psychological-drama; Mystery; Romance
• Where to stream: Amazon Prime Video; Peacock Premium; fuboTV; Showtime; Sky Go; Now TV;

One of the biggest disappointments in the past decade of noteworthy TV shows, is that The Affair didn’t gain bigger buzz or a bigger audience throughout its run. And even so, the Golden Globe award winning series still managed to pull off 5 seasons of perspective-driven conceptual storytelling. The approach The Affair takes is to tell 2 sides of a story, as shown from the perspectives of the characters themselves, depicting how one character’s recollection, experience and reaction to the events can be differ from another character's. Each episode spans about an hour, with the first half is dedicated to one character’s perspective, and then the story is retold or continued (whatever the writers feels is best) in the remaining time from another character’s perspective. A part of what makes The Affair brilliant is how well the execution of this concept shows how memories are flawed and self-serving with one character’s recollection of events always being so distinct from the other, or how certain events affect people in different ways in regards to tragedy.
But The Affair is so much more than its unique concept. In hindsight this is a show about marriage, relationships, infidelity, tragedy, grief and depression, which all comes set ablaze with the union of our 2 main characters who to an extent feels trapped in their respective marriages. With these elements The Affair offers a great deal of raw emotion to its viewers, which is complemented by maritime vibe of its recurring Montauk setting and soundtrack which is more than often melancholy. With a few bumps here and there The Affair steadily evolves into something more profound and less ambiguous, opting to be more of a study on families, forgiveness, death, growing older and self-reinvention in the long run, but staying true what made the series brilliant in the first place by depicting how these elements of life affects its characters differently.
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2015 -

In 2015, Netflix reigned. They became a force to be reckoned with, releasing a catalog of memorable and prestigious TV shows, including the ambitious Pablo Escobar-based period/crime-drama Narcos, the clever social comedy Master of None, and Marvel comic-book shows Daredevil and Jessica Jones. From other places, there were also the releases the mystery/conspiracy-driven of Mr. Robot (USA); the campy TV remake of classic meta horror franchise Scream (MTV); the quirky modern-day musical Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW); the AI and robotics sci-fi series Humans (Channel 4); the comedic superhero anime One Punch Man (TV Tokyo); and the realistic teen-drama Skam (NRK1) which gained beloved cult following for the subsequent seasons. But for my #1 'best TV series of 2015' pick, we go back to Netflix, for one of the grandest ideas ever seen on television in terms of premise and execution:
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• Sense8 (Netflix)
• Genre: N/A
• Where to watch: Netflix

Sense8 manages to be a sci-fi thriller, an over-the-top action flick, a cop show, a legal drama and a Bollywood romance drama all at once. And though Sense8 drops a few of these genres as the series progresses, favoring to focus more on its sci-fi elements which has always been the center of the series, there are no other series like Sense8 and doubtfully there'll ever be again. With a concept that's hard to execute and presumably even harder to produce, Sense8 uses its unique concept of 'sensates' and 'clusters' to endorse the idea of love and connectivity between all people no matter what race, sexuality or nationality. It is a show designed around the love of building strong connections with people, finding it however and whenever you can. Sense8 expresses this with a great deal of intimacy and endearment, using celebrations, sex scenes and emotionally uplifting music selections to do so. But there's also a great deal of action and fighting as our heroes take on the clear-cut villains of the world. Action, sci-fi, romance etc. Sense8 offers something for every viewer that may come its way, and its visuals and cinematography are even more so memorizing and immersive.
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2016 -

In 2016, we saw the releases of quite a long list of creative and inventive shows, such as the oddball comedy Atlanta (FX); the lighthearted 'afterlife' sitcom The Good Place (NBC); the Alia Shawkat-led comedy Search Party (TBS); superhero anime My Hero Academia (JNN); The Girlfriend Experience (Starz), which is probably my favorite of this list; and the mystery-box sci-fi/fantasy drama The OA (Netflix), which went on to be a fantastic series with The OA: Part II, though the first season was just a set-up for the magnificent things we saw later. For 2016 though, I imagine many viewers consider Westworld (HBO) to the best series that premiered that year, but I have always had the unpopular opinion, even back then, that Westworld took a far too complicated approach to its already intriguing concept. I could've been right too, as for the next 2 seasons we witness all the intrigue in Westworld slip away, so for my #1 pick for 'best TV series of 2016', I decided to go with a release that was even more monumental that Westworld, one that left a big imprint and had a big impact on pop culture at the time:
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• Stranger Things (Netflix)
• Genre: Sci-fi; Drama
• Where to stream: Netflix

Set in 1983 Stranger Things is centered around various characters living in a small Indiana town, whose lives start to unravel when a 12-year old boy Will, mysteriously goes missing. They are introduced to a series of extraordinary mysteries involving secret government experiments, unnerving supernatural forces, and a very unusual little girl. The series begins with various sub-plots focusing and grouping various characters on the show. These sub-plots then merged into one major plot near the end of the season (kinda like a movie right?). The casting on Stranger Things is definitely great. Every single character, regardless of how small the part is, feels like a complete character, and the main cast delivers strong performances playing these characters throughout the series.
The storytelling, cinematography, writing and production pays homage to pop cultured 1980’s sci-fi films. The production is spot on in it’s portrayal of a small town in the 80’s, and is definitely based off 80’s films such as E.T, The Goonies etc. Stranger Things is very nostalgic and plays on the audiences fondness for 80’s themed movies and shows. The nostalgia is a driving force in the show, but even for all its similarities to movies and shows of the past, Stranger Things has its own story to tell, and it tells it very well. Stranger Things provides the perfect blend of mystery, sci-fi, horror and humor. All these elements coexist very well within the show. I also have to commend the show on its wonderful pacing. 8-episodes were just the perfect amount to tell this story. It never felt stretched out or bogged down.

It's a fun thought experiment for me, I look at modern amenities we enjoy and then backtrack what their previous successor was. What's nice is we have the benefit of knowing what formats "won." Creates a sort of roadmap for what you'd be in to depending on when you went back.
Easy example is music. Currently you can stream music via your phone since 2011. Before that MP3 players, you're looking at 1997 for the introduction of the first MP3 player. Sidestepping technology of the time like MiniDisc. Before MP3 was CD, a portable version came out in 1984, and first CDs 1979. Kinda interesting to think that you could've bought something and had to wait almost 20 years but been able to rip it to your computer. Before CDs, you're looking at Vinyl, which takes you pretty far back to 1948.
Streaming is another example, 2007 Netflix launched streaming. Before streaming would've been the TiVo with DVR functionality and that's 1998. Prior to that would've been Premium Cable TV channels, that's a little trickier because it was regional, Cinemax launched in 1980, Showtime in 1976 and HBO in 1972. If you subscribed to all three you would've had basically three movies playing in the background at any given time, wouldn't have had control over what. You could've paired this with VHS for some rudimentary home DVR setup. Prior to cable TV would've been Laserdisc which came out in 1972, ushering in the ability to "buy" movies in any format. Before that, well, you're going to the movies a lot. I did hear of people who would make an audio recording off of a movie on TV. Or if you had insane money you could buy your own reels of movies.
I have 1987 as the furthest you could go back and have essentially a pretty modern existence.
With music, you're looking at CDs, but 1987 is also the year the first car CD players came out. Some people might STILL be rocking a car with the visor holding a dozen CDs, you could've been doing that in 1987. And you could've have a portable discman, and a nice CD player setup at home. And everything's ready to be ported to MP3s.
In 1987 there were five premium movie channels you could've subscribed to on cable, actually a full out package would've given you about 50 channels total. Comparable to basic cable now. You would've had a choice of five different movies to watch at any given time, and about 50 channels to flip through. If you wanted to get REALLY nerdy, you could've had a five TV/VCR combo setup, to each of the major networks, and used super long play VHS to record each night's lineup. Then watch that back on a dual VCR setup to create your own season passes to shows. That's a lot of work, but not out of the realm of possibility. In 1987 the technology existed to call in to your VCR and program something over the phone. And by 1987 you could've had a 15 year collection of Laserdiscs.
Cellphones were a thing, the smallest cellphone in 1987 was about the size of two PS Vita's stacked together. Not super convenient, but still relatively portable. It stored 50 numbers, you could've programmed it to dial the weather, local movie times, the places that delivered to you locally, your friends, information, not exactly apps on your phone, but rudimentary attempts at it and information would've acted like a super proto Siri.
For videogaming, the best console available in 1987 was the PC-Engine, you would've had to import it from Japan but it did launch at this time with a home version of the original street fighter. 16-Bit gaming was possible. Again, if you had the ability to import from japan, all the major classic NES games were out by this time, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Mega Man, Mario, if you spoke Japanese, you could've even been playing Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, etc. And personal computers definitely were a thing, Bards Tale, Might & Magic, Ultima, the Sierra games were out like King's quest which boasted some of the best graphics of the time. If you had the money, you could've been buying actual arcade cabinets, co-op gaming became a thing with Double Dragon coming out in 1987 and the original Street Fighter was also an arcade cabinet. By 1987 there's a litany of historic arcade games from all genres. You could've had a garage full.
Downside of 1987, TVs weren't particularly huge. I think 32" was the largest you could get at the time, which isn't terrible, but definitely half the size of what we have now. You could get projection TVs that could go up to 55", but you would've needed to setup the room to maximize it (blackout curtains and shit).
Still though, if I said I spent the weekend playing Street Fighter on a 55" tv with my friend, that phrase is totally recognizable in 2021 as a decent time. And you could've said that same exact phrase in 1987.
In 1987 you didn't have the internet, but you did have various online services, such as CompuServe and Prodigy that acted as a proto internet. Options were sorta limited for what you could've used them for. You had e-mail, and newsgroups, you could've booked air travel and done some rudimentary online shopping. Access to news services and things like sports scores would've been kind of cool and online encyclopedias as a sorta proto-wikipedia. These services at the time charged hourly access and weren't exactly cheap by contemporary standards, but if you did have unlimited funds you could've had a setup where you had a computer with dedicated 24/7 access to compuserve and had a computer you could've always gone over to to check various information online. So if your buddy was over and wanted weird racoon facts, you could've pulled up the encyclopedia entry and gotten them. Not exactly looking up memes, but kinda comparable.
MMORPGs weren't graphical yet, but there was Gemstone which supported up to 2,000 simultaneous players, it was text based, but still got the job done.
Nice thing is comic books are basically unchanged. You had some trade paperbacks, but you mostly would've needed single issue storylines.
Podcasts weren't a thing, but books on tape were, as was talk radio. Pair that with cassette tape and you sort of have podcasts.
But other modern activities we enjoy were all still there, concerts, sporting events, plays and musicals, amusement parks, all existed just fine in 1987.
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You can make a case for 1979... you had CDs, portable phones, VCRs, Premium cable channels (HBO and Showtime), LaserDisc... the Apple II was available, 55" projection TVs were out, you would've had the Atari 2600 and Fairchild Channel F for home consoles, Arcade Cabinets were a thing but gameplay was still in the early stages, Compuserve was around in a nascent state. You could've been playing Akalabeth (the first computer RPG) on a 55" TV, blasting Hawkwind on your CD player, get up to go check the sports scores on your dedicated CompuServe computer, on your way back to the RPG, play a round of Galaxian, one of the first arcade shoot em ups, order a pizza and decide between watching the new episode of Charlie's Angels you recorded, the Amityville Horror on HBO or Animal House on your laserdisc player. Slightly askew but not that different from an evening you might have now.
But anything earlier than that you begin to lose any semblance. And by 1972 they're more or less all gone, you would've had a leave it to beaver kind of setup. Vinyl, rabbit ears, comic books and going to the movies, driving around listening to 8-tracks, you could maybe have some pinball machines and board games.
If you trace those roots further back, you get to 1928... if you lived in NYC, you would've had access to TV, on an INCREDIBLY small set, with basically terrible public access shows. If you were rich enough you could have a private theater and projection.
Radio was a big selling point. Radio shows were essentially broadcast plays, so podcasts kind of ruled the day. There were horror themed ones that were sort of proto twilight zone. Unfortunately no real way to record episodes. You could've owned vinyl music but the format at the time meant you were basically listening to a song at a time. You could set it up in a Jukebox but all that effort means you're getting basically one album of music. Taste wise, hope you like Jazz, Blues and old timey country.
In 1928 comic books weren't even a thing, but comic strips were, you could theoretically have them cut out and combined INTO comic books. Things like Flash Gordon were essentially a single page of a comic book, released weekly, so twice a year you would've had a comic book.
In NYC in 1928 you would've had access to the NFL, MLB and NHL teams, basketball didn't really start until the 1940s. You could've enjoyed live sports for the majority of the year, and Coney Island was available giving you an amusement park and roller coasters.
Videogames weren't a thing, pinball didn't appear until the 1930s, you could've had board games, a pool table, and if you had unlimited funds your own bowling lane.
Movies were a thing, talking pictures had started, and in NYC broadway was definitely a thing. Taxis were available, so you could've just "ubered" everywhere.
Computers weren't a thing, but you could've had a telephone which would've given you access to quite a bit of information or the ability to call people around the world. Provided they had a phone too. But if you were super rich, that could've been a perk of being your friend, you installed a phone for them. You couldn't text, but you could call and talk to your buddies.
This gets a little fascinating, and is up there with someone in 1928 having their own screening room and movie projector. Newspapers had wire services, where a story would be sent via telegraph to multiple destinations. i.e. how local newspapers would get breaking international stories. You could theoretically have one installed for breaking news in your apartment. It'd give you a chance to get a news story a day before the paper came out. Stock tickers were really the only 'real time' news source.
Watch a movie in your theater. Put on your hour long jukebox, play some pool, bowl a few lanes, call your buddy to come over and pick up chinese food, then watch some weird Tim & Eric public access shit on your TV. While you're waiting for your buddy, you're reading the next days news over the newswire. Buddy gets there, make plans to go to a Yankees game, then hit up coney island after.
You have to start worrying about it in 1928 but modern medicine starts becoming a problem, meaning surgery. If you go back further, stuff really drops off in the 1860s before Broadway started, at that point you can't go out and see anything resembling a show. No recorded music, no recorded media. Newswire services DID exist, and you could've had a telegraph in your home. No comicbooks, just regular books, and genres like sci-fi and horror didn't really exist. You could've seen boxing, and maybe horse racing, but modern sports didn't really exist.
You could've had dope stuff though, like an indoor swimming pool, reading the newspaper, some board games, pool table, and books. But you're getting pretty far from any activities we engage in nowadays. Basically comparable to going camping in a cabin now.

television auto-bans Wall Street Journal links bc paywall, but this is a good topic I haven't seen written about in depth (mods, feel free to remove if it's against the rules):

WSJ: How the Launch of HBO Max Sidelined Cinemax
Fan favorites like ‘Banshee’ and ‘Strike Back’ were left behind by the streamer, and the new ‘Gangs of London’ is looking elsewhere
Usually it’s writers pitching ideas to TV networks, but at a meeting in 2012, it was executives at HBO who had a proposition for writers Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy. Their script about a Vietnam War vet turned hit man could wait in line with other dramas being developed for HBO’s flagship channel, or it could get fast-tracked into production for sister channel Cinemax.
The writers thought: Skinemax? That nickname had stuck to the pay-cable channel launched in 1980 because of its menu of late-night erotica. “I joked that they should probably change the name Cinemax” to put an end to that pun, Mr. Gordy recalls. “The joke was not received well in that room. It was like a record scratch.”
That seedy image was what HBO tried to erase by rebranding Cinemax from a B-list movie channel to a home for eye-grabbing original series. “Quarry” and others with characters as punchy as their titles—“Strike Back,” “Banshee,” “Warrior,” “Jett”—would define Cinemax’s house style of “sophisticated pulp.” A dozen originals produced over the last decade helped Cinemax build up subscribers, loyal fans of its brawny dramas, and a stable of respected producers, including Steven Soderbergh and Mike Judge.
But now it’s a casualty of what many called a golden age of television. Original programming is dead on Cinemax, where subscribers fell from 15.6 million in 2015 to 7.9 million last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. A high-profile crime series promised for later this year, “Gangs of London,” is departing the network for another buyer, according to people familiar with the negotiations. And Cinemax’s existing library of shows have been sidelined by the glossy new streaming platform named for its sister network. HBO Max, launched last month by HBO and Cinemax owner WarnerMedia, features 10,000 hours of content and virtually every HBO series made, but none produced by the channel that operates under the same roof.
“At Cinemax we had probably the greatest creative experiences of our careers,” says Jonathan Tropper, executive producer of “Banshee” and “Warrior.” “But beyond the walls of Cinemax” —within HBO and now HBO Max—”there was a very strong sense in the culture of being the bastard child.”
In an industry pumping out over 500 scripted series a year, the footprint left by Cinemax’s originals is relatively small. But shows like its biggest hit, “Banshee,” with a coterie of famous fans from Samuel L. Jackson to Henry Winkler, retain a cult following. And they’re a reminder of an important battle in the world of cable that led up to the current streaming war. They also reveal how past shows without a presence on a major streaming platform require more effort for viewers to find and risk fading away.
Among the missing from HBO Max is “The Knick,” about an opium-addicted doctor inventing surgical science circa 1900. The series ran two seasons starting in 2014. It featured movie star Clive Owen, was produced, directed and edited by an Oscar-winner, Mr. Soderbergh, and earned Cinemax its most ever Emmy nominations. Despite that pedigree, Mr. Soderbergh questions the exclusion of “The Knick” from HBO Max in more practical terms: “It seems odd, from a business standpoint, to spend $100 million for two seasons of programming and sort of let it disappear.”
Through a spokeswoman, WarnerMedia noted that originals like “The Knick” are still available on the Cinemax pay-cable channel and its online extension, MaxGo.com. (Nonsubscribers can purchase them as downloads from Amazon, iTunes and other digital stores.) The company said it didn’t include the shows on the new streaming platform because of several factors, including existing distribution deals. It declined to elaborate on the other factors.
“Although we explored adding the Cinemax series to the HBO Max bundle, we ultimately decided it was best for the brand and the business to keep the series library exclusive to Cinemax,” WarnerMedia said.
The rise and fall of Cinemax originals began in 2010, a post-”Sopranos,” pre-”Game of Thrones” moment for HBO. Networks across the cable dial were diving into original programming in an effort to lure viewers and boost their value to cable providers. For Cinemax, which gradually eliminated its “After Dark” soft-core porn, originals helped cable companies sell premium channel packages to potential subscribers.
Cinemax President Kary Antholis, who also oversaw HBO’s miniseries, started his slate with “Strike Back,” about a globe-trotting military intelligence outfit eliminating terrorists and other threats. Cinemax split production costs with British broadcaster Sky and shot the series in South Africa. “Kary got a pretty cheap show, and a pretty good one as well,” says executive producer Andy Harries, whose London-based Left Bank Pictures now produces Netflix’s “The Crown.” “Strike Back” also made money. HBO’s distribution wing sold it in 198 territories, which helped sustain the series until its finale on Cinemax last April.
“Banshee” featured Antony Starr (now on Amazon’s “The Boys”) as an ex-con posing as a sheriff in Banshee, Pa., an Amish-country town crawling with criminal gangs. Mr. Antholis, who declined to comment for this article, told prospective Cinemax producers that “Banshee” played like an ’80s action movie crossed with Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers—the ideal vibe for the channel.
The process of forging this identity gave Cinemax the feel of a startup, says “Banshee” and “Quarry” executive producer Greg Yaitanes: “It felt to us like it probably felt at HBO during the years of ‘Oz’ and ‘The Wire,’” when HBO’s own lineup of originals first took root.
Cinemax’s productions, which grew to include an animated series documenting wild moments in music history, “Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus,” benefited from logistical support and other resources from the HBO mothership—but only to a point, producers say.
In March 2014, “Banshee” drew 733,000 viewers for the finale of its second season. Over on HBO, which was in three times as many homes as Cinemax, the millennial dramedy “Girls” got 670,000 viewers for its season finale that same month. When the “Banshee” team pushed to have HBO’s public relations department promote the show’s ratings success, they were told, “to do a story about ‘Banshee’ would shine a light on the number that ‘Girls’ gets,” Mr. Yaitanes recalls.
Business pressures from above, especially AT&T’s 2016 deal to buy HBO owner Time Warner, drained money and support for Cinemax’s adventures in original programming.
HBO had taken custody of “The Knick” in hopes of boosting the show’s profile and leveraging acclaim it had already received, including two Emmy nominations for Mr. Soderbergh’s directing. But the timing backfired. “All of a sudden they had a $60 million commitment showing up on HBO’s ledger that wasn’t there yesterday,” Mr. Soderbergh said of the budget proposed for the show’s third season, part of a multiyear story plan that included time jumps into other eras of medicine. “The Knick” was canceled in 2017.
Mr. Soderbergh has a deal to make movies for HBO Max, which will release the director’s “Let Them All Talk,” starring Meryl Streep.
In 2018, AT&T sealed its $80 billion-plus purchase of the company it renamed WarnerMedia. An exodus of longtime leaders included CEO Richard Plepler (who later took a production deal with Apple) and Mr. Antholis (whose current company, Crime Story Media, develops podcast and television projects).
In January at a press event introducing HBO Max, WarnerMedia executives said there would be no new original programming on Cinemax, and that its existing library wouldn’t go on HBO Max.
“It’s ironic that ‘Max’ is in the name,” says Deana Myers, a research director at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “It seems like they’ve set the Cinemax brand out to die.”
The surprise announcement left several series in limbo. Within weeks, “Gangs of London” producers went looking (with Cinemax’s blessing) for a new U.S. home for the thriller. The violent show from acclaimed action director Gareth Evans amassed hit ratings in the U.K when it premiered there in April.
“Warrior,” a martial-arts showcase dealing with immigration and racism, and based on a concept by Bruce Lee has its second season pending. The show’s creator, Mr. Tropper, who now runs the Apple TV+ series “See,” says he lobbied “anyone who would listen” at HBO Max (and outside networks and streamers) to pick up “Warrior,” which made its debut more than a year ago. A Cinemax spokesman said “Warrior” would return sometime in 2020.
“It’s ending with a whimper,” Mr. Tropper says, adding that the same can be said of the other Cinemax originals: “What’s the ultimate fate of these shows going to be?”

I was using u/the_Film_Auditor's great post about streaming the top 100 but found that despite it being less than 6 months old edit: 18 months old, a lot has changed in that time. I'm doing my own Monster March horror marathon and decided to update my research and share with you guys. Here's what I found. Note I didn't really account for crossover like movies on multiple services, and mostly went with the service I use most in those cases. I also left out the Free With Commercials stuff because I don't want to watch commercials. Hope it helps someone out!
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Amazon Prime Video - 17 Movies
Hereditary Ari Aster 2018
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (aka The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) Tobe Hooper 1974
The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1990
The Cabin in the Woods Drew Goddard 2011
Hellraiser Clive Barker 1987
Night of the Living Dead George Romero 1968
Carrie Brian De Palma 1976
A Quiet Place John Krasinski 2018
Pet Sematary Mary Lambert 1989
The Strangers Bryan Bertino 2008
Jacob's Ladder Adrian Lyne 1990
The Return of the Living Dead Dan O'Bannon 1985
Cube Vincenzo Natali 1997
Nosferatu F.W. Murnau 1922
Bone Tomahawk S. Craig Zahler 2015
Annihilation Alex Garland 2018
The House of the Devil Ti West 2009
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Netflix - 16 Movies
The Evil Dead Sam Raimi 1981
The Witch Robert Eggers 2015
Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski 1968
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil Eli Craig 2010
Insidious James Wan 2010
Event Horizon Paul W.S. Anderson 1997
Paranormal Activity Oren Peli 2007
Green Room Jeremy Saulnier 2015
Train to Busan Yeon Sang-ho 2016
The Ritual David Bruckner 2017
Candyman Bernard Rose 1992
Child's Play Tom Holland 1988
El laberinto del fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth) Guillermo del Toro 2006
Creep Patrick Brice 2014
The Wicker Man Robin Hardy 1973
Autopsy of Jane Doe André Øvredal 2017
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Shudder - 9 Movies
Halloween John Carpenter 1978
Trick 'r Treat Michael Dougherty 2007
Re-Animator Stuart Gordon 1985
The Wailing Na Hong-jin 2016
Audition Takashi Miike 1999
Black Christmas Bob Clark 1974
The Lost Boys Joel Schumacher 1987
The Devil's Rejects Rob Zombie 2005
The Fog John Carpenter 1980
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Starz! - 8 Movies
The Thing John Carpenter 1982
The Blair Witch Project Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez 1999
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
Shaun of the Dead Edgar Wright 2004
Army of Darkness Sam Raimi 1992
American Psycho Mary Harron 2000
The Omen Richard Donner 1976
They Live John Carpenter 1988
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Showtime - 5 movies
Scream Wes Craven 1996
The Babadook Jennifer Kent 2014
Saw James Wan 2004
Misery Rob Reiner 1990
From Dusk Till Dawn Robert Rodriguez 1996
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YouTube (just free on regular youtube) - 3 movies
Night of the Living Dead George Romero 1968
Dawn of the Dead George Romero 1978
Dead Alive (aka Braindead) Peter Jackson 1992
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HBO Go/Now - 2 movies
The Others Alejandro Amenábar 2001
Black Swan Darren Aronofsky 2010
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FX Now - 2 movies
Get Out Jordan Peele 2017
Don’t Breathe Fede Álvarez 2016
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Cinemax - 2 movies
Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
An American Werewolf in London John Landis 1981
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Hulu - 1 movie
28 Days Later Danny Boyle 2002

I remember seeing this movie on Cinemax back in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s as a kid. It was definitely late at night and MAY have been an Emmanuelle movie.
The key points I remember are:
It takes place on a train and may have been part of a journey.
There’s a scene where the two older men (Main characters, I think?) meet a younger woman (Teenage/young adult.) The two men have sex with her but it’s implied; you never see her naked but there is nudity and sex in the film.
After the sex, the men and the girl part ways.
One of the men who had sex with the girl reminded me of a younger Gerard Deapardeu but probably wasn’t him.
A woman commits suicide by inserting a gun into her vagina and shooting herself.
This is literally all I remember. Please let me know if any of this sounds familiar because I am almost positive I saw this movie.

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She knew a kid who watched Cinemax. Cinemax launched on August 1, 1980, Blobin was 28.

There are lots of claims to the very first CATV system, yet only one thing is for sure; it came from the USA and, according to one renowned recollection, cable television service had its start in 1948 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Neighborhood antenna television, as it was then called, was designed by John as well as Margaret Walson out of a necessity to bring television to their clients. They possessed The Service Electric Firm, a company created to offer, set up, and repair work appliances. When they began selling television in 1947 their Mahanoy City clients hesitated to get because of reception issues. This particular region of Pennsylvania had troubles picking up the terminals in close-by Philly because of the hills that bordered them.
To fix this trouble, Walson set up an antenna on an energy post that he placed on a regional hill top. It permitted him to demonstrate that the tvs might get excellent broadcasts originating from a few of the Philly stations utilizing changed signal boosters as well as cable television to attach the antenna to his store. So, in 1948, he billed a small fee and also linked the antenna to numerous of his consumers' houses also, marking the start of the cable television service business.
The very early 1950s saw even more growth of the wire system. By then, the FCC had actually launched its hang on a 3 year long freezing of new television terminal construction and also had "assigned a nationwide television broadcasting strategy", bring about the fairly rapid growth of new tv terminals. Department stores began to motivate television viewing by displaying several various versions to buy. Of course, this meant that television antennas needed to additionally be marketed. At the time, each residence or house required its very own antenna, producing a somewhat unsightly "forest of antennas" on the roof coverings of some apartment buildings.
This prompted Milton Jerrold Shapp to develop a system that made use of just one master antenna for a whole building. He did so using coaxial cable as well as signal boosters, making it possible for the cable television to carry numerous signals at the same time. Not as well long after that, another appliance store owner experiencing the very same trouble as that of the Walsons checked out Mr Shapp's system. Figuring that, if it can benefit homes and department stores, it can help an entire community too and also he established the initial cable tv system comparable to exactly how we understand it today.
Because of Mr Shapp's ingenious new system, television spread like wild fire throughout the country, enabling remote and backwoods to obtain a signal and also "by 1952, 70 'cable' systems offered 14,000 subscribers nationwide". Yet, certainly, people would not stay content with enabling the cable system merely to be used as a means of supplying much better signal strength to rural areas.
Toward the end of the decade, cord operators started using modern technologies to grab signals from stations hundreds of miles away, irreversibly changing the method the cable television as well as tv sector operated. This brand-new discovered capacity to import more signals from remote stations additionally permitted more shows selections. Now, the wire systems that only permitted 3 networks (one for each network) quickly transformed, permitting room for 7 or more networks as a result of the fact that they could get programs from far-off independent terminals (2 ). This created even more interest in cord as a service provider for city tv also because of the selection in choices it permitted.
By the early 1960s there were almost 800 cable television network systems in business. A lot of these cord network firms started increasing into multiple cities, causing the beginning of the several system operator (MSO). Yet, the neighborhood broadcasters were afraid of the competition that cord companies were producing so they asked the government to quit the importation of signals by wire companies. The freeze that the Federal Communications Compensation (FCC) positioned on the importation of cord signals lasted till 1972.
In 1972 the service networks that individuals pay an additional premium for were begun when Service Electric began to costs for House Box Office (HBO). It had a marginal start with concerning a couple of hundred viewers the first night. Nevertheless, it has turned into one of the biggest pay cord solutions around. It is as a result of its success that many others have adhered to.
Furthermore, the desire for more channels led the FCC to release a rule in 1969 that called for "all CATV systems with over 3500 subscribers to have centers for regional origination of programming by April 1, 1971". Moreover, in 1976, the FCC determined to require that brand-new systems have to have more than 20 networks to select from which wire providers that had greater than 3500 need to supply public networks for education along with federal government accessibility.
Thus, cable television service has been divided into two different solutions: fundamental service and premium solutions. Standard cord typically includes the neighborhood television networks as well as a couple of other common networks that are not sent with any kind of security technique while costs networks rush their signals. They include networks such as HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, and also Starz and also are usually paid for in different added packages along with the standard service.
The costs for solution, whether standard or costs, did not delay customers as well as by the 1980s the major 3 television networks (ABC, CBS, and also NBC) had just about shed their monopoly on viewers. "The era of network tv" was coming to an end. Also various other information networks started to arise. "By 1985, 68% of all American homes (60 million) had cable television". Cable Television News Network (CNN) first showed up on the scene in 1980.
With the appearance of all the brand-new cord networks, cable transformed the method Americans watched television, and influenced much more adjustments yet to find. The development of the Video Cassette Recorder and also, still later, the DVR would certainly do the same, yet once more transforming just how American's usage their tvs.
In recent years modern technology has actually begun to create options to cable. As web material grows to out consider what cable television solutions can use. Many people have actually begun to migrate from cable tv to Web television. (24% in the United States, 40% either usage Web TELEVISION alone, or a mix of Wire and Net TELEVISION together) Internet TELEVISION provides the customer with a chance to check out all their favored programs, most commercial free, in Hd and directly to the individuals television. Web TV. Internet TV has the potential to replace cable television service as the preferred technique of home amusement distribution.
Financial savings and also selection are stated as the key reasons to change to a Cable TV alternative. The typical regular monthly cable bill in the US is in between one-hundred fifty as well as two-hundred bucks monthly pair this with the necessary tv antenna installation services and you have a big reason for people switching. Net TV in comparison has an one time charge for the home component and also no extra regular monthly watching costs. Individuals who wish to utilize services like Netflix and also Blockbuster online might now watch motion pictures directly on their HD tv. Internet TELEVISION does not bypass legal ways of material distribution, you need to still pay the charges associated licensing fee for motion picture leasing sites like Netflix and Hit.
Free Web TELEVISION web content currently certified for seeing online in high definition. (Short list) All shows from the major television networks; ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, a lot of cord networks (CNN, E!, etc) likewise broadcast their programs online free of charge. Some advance the broadcasts online before airing on their wire networks. Hulu, Fancast and also Spreety are among a few providers readily available who accumulate all the lawful web content in one place for very easy watching by the customer.

Caddyshack hit theaters in late July 1980. Does anyone know when it would have started being shown on Showtime, or Cinemax, HBO, I can’t remember which. I think it was Showtime. But that’s where I first saw it and I’m trying to pin down when that was. It seems like back then movies took longer to go from theaters, to video, then to cable. So it likely would have been sometime in 1981.

I wasn't getting reliable results from other sources, so I compiled these myself.
These are my findings for services in the US.
Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, Showtime, Shudder and Mubi require subscriptions but typically offer free trials.
Cinemax and Starz require subscriptions through cable services or Amazon Prime.
Vudu and Tubi are free streaming services.
Go get spooky y'all.

Title	Year	Services
1. The Shining	1980	Netflix
2. The Thing	1982	Starz
3. Halloween	1978	Shudder
4. Alien	1979	----
5. Hereditary	2018	----
6. The Exorcist	1973	----
7. It Follows	2014	Netflix
8. The Evil Dead	1981	Shudder
9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	1974	Shudder
10. The Witch	2015	Netflix
11. The Silence of the Lambs	1990	HBO
12. The Cabin in the Woods	2011	----
13. Scream	1996	Starz
14. Get Out	2017	Cinemax
15. A Nightmare on Elm Street	1984	----
16. 28 Days Later	2002	----
17. The Descent	2005	HBO
18. The Blair Witch Project	1999	Amazon, Hulu, Shudder, Vudu, Tubi
19. The Conjuring	2013	Netflix
20. Psycho	1960	Shudder
21. Rosemary's Baby	1968	Starz
22. Evil Dead II	1987	Starz
23. The Babadook	2014	Netflix (until 10/14)
24. IT	2017	HBO
25. Hellraiser	1987	Netflix, Hulu
26. Suspiria	1977	Tubi
27. Night of the Living Dead	1968	Amazon, Shudder, Starz, Tubi
28. Jaws	1975	Amazon
29. Trick 'r Treat	2007	----
30. Shaun of the Dead	2004	----
31. Saw	2004	Starz
32. The Fly	1986	Hulu
33. Seven (Se7en)	1995	Netflix
34. Carrie	1976	Amazon
35. [REC]	2007	Hulu
36. The Ring	2002	----
37. Friday the 13th	1980	----
38. Dawn of the Dead	1978	----
39. Poltergeist	1982	----
40. Sinister	2012	----
41. Aliens	1986	----
42. An American Werewolf in London	1981	----
43. Re-Animator	1985	Shudder
44. The Sixth Sense	1999	Netflix
45. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil	2010	Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Tubi
46. Insidious	2010	----
47. Event Horizon	1997	----
48. Paranormal Activity	2007	Amazon, Hulu
49. A Quiet Place	2018	----
50. The Mist	2007	----
51. Evil Dead	2013	----
52. Martyrs	2008	----
53. Army of Darkness	1992	----
54. American Psycho	2000	Amazon, Shudder
55. Misery	1990	----
56. Drag Me to Hell	2009	HBO
57. Green Room	2015	Amazon
58. You're Next	2011	Vudu, Tubi
59. Train to Busan	2016	Netflix
60. The Ritual	2017	Netflix
61. Dead Alive (Braindead)	1992	----
62. Pet Sematary	1989	Amazon
63. In the Mouth of Madness	1994	Vudu
64. The Wailing	2016	Netflix
65. The Strangers	2008	Amazon
66. Jacob's Ladder	1990	Amazon
67. 10 Cloverfield Lane	2016	----
68. What We Do in the Shadows	2014	Amazon
69. Audition	1999	----
70. Candyman	1992	----
71. Child's Play	1988	Amazon, Tubi, Vudu
72. Black Christmas	1974	Showtime, Shudder
73. El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)	2006	----
74. The Omen	1976	HBO
75. The Return of the Living Dead	1985	Amazon
76. The Others	2001	Hulu
77. The Lost Boys	1987	HBO
78. Creep	2014	Netflix
79. Black Swan	2010	----
80. The Wicker Man	1973	Shudder
81. Cube	1997	Netflix, Shudder, Vudu, Tubi
82. Nosferatu	1922	Amazon, Shudder, Tubi
83. Autopsy of Jane Doe	2017	Showtime
84. The Devil's Rejects	2005	HBO
85. Creepshow	1982	----
86. Bone Tomahawk	2015	Amazon
87. From Dusk Till Dawn	1996	Starz
88. Don’t Breathe	2016	----
89. Oculus	2014	Netflix
90. Annihilation	2018	----
91. Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)	2008	Hulu, Shudder
92. The House of the Devil	2009	Shudder
93. Fright Night	1985	----
94. The Fog	1980	Shudder
95. Dawn of the Dead	2004	Cinemax
96. Pontypool	2008	Mubi
97. They Live	1988	Starz
98. El Orfanato (The Orphanage)	2007	----
99. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	1987	----
100. Ringu	1998	----

^{How did The Orphanage only barely make this list?!}
Original Results Thread

I would watch it on HBO/Cinemax/The Movie Channel/Showtime a bunch when I was in middle school in the late 1980's. I would watch just this one scene over and over.
I think the movie took place in the 1950's in a wholesome neighborhood? The scene I remember is a guy and a girl in high school, in bed with each other in one of their bedrooms, and the song "Everyday" by Buddy Holly plays over the scene. It was a regular movie, but I think they weren't wearing shirts in this one scene.
What's the name of the movie?

Hey Survivors!
Sorry about the delay in getting this Digest out - we’ve been incredibly occupied lately with preparing this week’s content update, as well as preparing for our imminent release of “ARK: Survival Evolved” on the Xbox One!

Alienware Modding Contest

It’s been quite a few months since we first announced the Alienware Modding Contest! The submission period, initial voting and judging period has now ended! Alienware will be announcing the top 10 from the contest tomorrow, so be on the lookout and good luck to everyone who makes it!

Community Crunch Contests

Be sure to check out our two-weekly running contests! ARKitect and ARKArt where we check out the best bases and the best pieces of art in the game! If you’d like to submit your base or something you’ve created in the game, you can check out the entries thread here which will fill you in on all the rules too!
Community Crunch Contest Submissions - http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/490125737482714510/

Dino Dossier

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=556779056
http://i.imgur.com/VqBg2wL.jpg
A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favorite gargantuan beast of the waters, the Leedsichthys!

Common Name: Leedsichthys

Species: Leedsichthys Conviviumbrosia

Time: Mid-Jurassic

Diet: Piscivore

Temperament: Defensive

Wild

Leedsichthys Conviviumbrosia is probably the largest fish in the waters around the island. Its meant is also extremely succulent, a surprise given its size. It is often traded with the same value as Prime Meat, and colloquially called ‘Prime Fish’. Of course, not all of Leedsichthys’ meat is this high quality but most of it is!
While the demand for Leedsichthys meat is high, the fish is notoriously difficult to track and hunt. Between its large size, powerful attacks, incredible speed (when it turns to flee), and humankind’s general ineptitude on open water, actually killing a Leedsichthys is one of the island’s more difficult tasks. The hunt for an extremely elusive breed of the fish, the fabled ‘Great Albino’ Leedsichthys has been known to drive otherwise-sensible men and women mad with obsession, as if all evil were visibly personified and made practically assailable in this one creature.

Domesticated

Despite its large size, and the fact that it may well be strong enough to carry heavy loads, Leedsichthys does not appear to be intelligent enough to tame. Nevertheless, some large tribes keep an enormous pen with a few Leedsichthys trapped inside for cultivating purposes, as bits of prime fish can be repeatedly scraped off the gargantuan beast without killing it.

ARK Digest Q&A

Survivor, Manks asks, “Hello Devs, in a previous Ark Digest you mentioned a new way to get high tier blueprints, would you be able to give anymore information on that?”

Answer:
Bosses with scalability difficulty! So the tougher boss you summon, the better gear you’ll be able to get :).

Survivor, CautiousCreeper asks, “Could you make it so we can press "E" to rotate more structures like elevator rails, ceilings etc?”

Answer:
Sure, we’ll work on getting this setup.

Survivor, Neoris asks, “When are you going to add an industrial version of the cooking pot? Right now is really tedious to make 100+ kibbles. Pls we need this !!”

Answer:
Yes, the Industrial Oven will be released next week just in time for your Thanksgiving Roast!

Survivor, eagle_1980 asks, “Can we get a preview on the Tek structures and what sort of mats would be involved and when will these be out?”

Answer:
Teleporters. Shield Generators. Cloaking Devices. Plasma Rifles. Making heavy use of a new end-game resource called “Element”. An initial set of these will be releasing before the end of this year. Will that do? ;)

Survivor, Demitry asks, “Hello devs any ETA on when the water cave and bigger ocean will be coming?”

Answer:
Early 2016 -- our priority at the moment is Snow/Swamp/Tek caves and Boss Arenas. But we will get to it!

Survivor, Martin Cinemax III asks, “Any chance we'll see a "Claim" option for structures belonging to dead players/tribes in Hardcore?”

Answer:
Not likely specifically, as that would provide too much incentive to PvP.

Survivor, bubblywums asks, “What is the progress on water dino/amphibian/arachnid breeding? :)”

Answer:
Working on it ;)

Survivor, Reubatina11 asks, “Can you tell us more about the upcoming Turkey Terror event? Will the tameable DodoRex be smaller and less powerful than the one in Fear Evolved?”

Answer:
It’ll involve vicious Turkeys, and lots of them.

Survivor, JasonB asks, “When will creature AI get worked on and what do you hope to achieve from better AI?”

Answer:
It’s undergoing a refactoring that will be deployed in December. Local-area navigation and sensory perception are the too main areas getting attention at the moment, along with more specialized abilities for the launch creatures.

Survivor, Dinogirl4Ever asks, “Could we get a perch for animals like dimorphodon and mesopithicus. I would love to store them properly instead of throwing them all around the room.”

Answer:
Yes, that’s a cool idea and we will do it.

Survivor, warlordm59 also asks, “Can you make it where bats can land? and maybe even under ceilings:)?”

Answer:
Yeah, we’re going to add the capability for bats to “hang”.

Survivor, Giveaway412 asks, “Were there any creatures planned for Ark that didn't make the final cut?”

Answer:
Tame-able humans. ;)

Survivor, Erebuss asks, “Could we get the ability on PVE servers to demo old rafts? There are literally a hundred abandoned rafts all around.”

Answer:
Yep, v234 will have the option to “Demolish” Rafts that you own, or that are claimable (so after the Claiming time period makes them available).

Survivor, Tyrannogon asks, “What kinds of creatures will be found in the snow biome's cave?”

Answer:
Yetis.

Survivor, RadioActiveMan asks, “When the DodoRex returns, will we have larger time windows to experiment on this abomination of nature? The few times our server was able to locate him, he always despawned before we completed any experiments; even when we were actively engaged in pacifying him.”

Answer:
Yes, next time he’ll stick around for an entire day.

Survivor, The Minted Lady asks, “Will you please add a game.ini option to enable wild dino damage on the spiked walls? They are so beautiful, I hate to have them go to waste on my casual PvE server. Right now there's no point to setting them up.”

Answer:
Sure, we’ll do this in v234.

Survivor, Kimsie asks, “Is it your intention that we breeders keep track of each of our breeding animals' natural stats (the ones passed on to the offspring) or is this something we might be able to look up, say in the family tree you've announced? I'd love to do some pedigree breeding”

Answer:
That’s the plan in the longer-term. For now, you might want to make your own family tree ;)

Survivor, SquidPublicArkAdmin asks, “Can you change the class of the "storage" in the StructureDecay system to match the longest timer i.e. metal tier- it's a bit silly if a player comes back from a week's holiday to find their metal base standing but all storage boxes / mortars etc demolished if the server is using the AutoStructureDestroy feature. It shouldn't make a difference as if a thatch / wood building auto destroyed the storage will automatically destroy when the foundation support is removed (apart from vaults of course”

Answer:
Good point, we’ll do it for v234.

Survivor, Kabub asks, “will sl1pg8r get the sl1pg8r award?”

Answer:
That will be up to sl1pg8r ;)

Survivor, Seghs asks, “Do you think there will every be trophies from other creatures besides the rex etc? I'd love a pair of Megaloceros antlers hanging on my wall”

Answer:
Yes, there will be plenty more mountable Trophies incoming.

Survivor, Garick asks, “Tribe admin logs: Please elaborate on how this functions”

Answer:
You’ll find out first-hand when v234 launches soon :)

Survivor, Valoule asks, “Can we have one option for maximum building height cap ? I want to construct Very big building but i can't ;'(“

Answer:
It’s there for technical reasons at the moment, but we’ll look into providing an option to expand it.

Survivor, ImpureFrost asks, “Will we see more options with the implants in the future?”

Answer:
Yeah, they play an important part in the upcoming Ascension game-loop.

Survivor, HelenTheHero asks, “With baby, juvenile, and adolescent kaiurukus in-game, will we see something similar for other dinos? It would be great to see baby dodos wandering around. :D”

Answer:
Yes the intent is to have juveniles of many species out in the wild soon.

Survivor, BruceTheShark asks, “After just equipping my Paracer with a Catapult, I got to thinking... Wouldn't it be great if I could fling giant balls of feces at others? Any chance that will become a thing? :P”

Answer:
Hmmmmm…..

Survivor, [MAD]Jelly asks, “Please please please add a colour blind filter or change the colour of the compass since my directionally challenged partly red/green colourblind partner cannot find his way around the game, so a colour filter on the game or just changing the tip of the compass from a red to a blue or white would really help him”

Answer:
Done, in v234!

Survivor, CraigChappy asks, “So I see your new Troodon will be tameable by letting it hunt dodos. But only dodos? Maybe.... prisoners? ;)”

Answer:
Dodos was the example used in the Dossier, but it’ll hunt anything it thinks it can take on, including humans. Especially humans.

Survivor, Warcrime asks, “Can we get leashes or hitching posts so that we would be able to keep a dino in place even when someone accidentally hits the "call all" key?”

Answer:
That’s a pretty neat idea, especially if it was integrated into the concept of tethering even during aggressive state (so that you could have a mean aggressive guard dog that would only be able to travel so far from the hitching post). Will be looking into this in the near future.

Survivor, ASLAN the jesus lion asks, “Will all the dossiers eventually be added to the game or is the unreleased section just a place to brainstorm.”

Answer:
All Officially released ARK Dossiers are confirmed creatures that will be added to the game!

Survivor, dylan asks, “I will ask every digest... Will we have cannons that can launch doedis?”

Answer:
Sounds like a good idea for a Mod :P

Survivor, Neizen Senpai asks, “Can you add submarine loot crates (illuminated treasure chest)? (yellow lvl 45, red lvl 60, orange lvl 75 and black light lvl 90)”

Answer:
Yeah, we definitely will.

Survivor, Navi asks, “The angler gel is so great! You should see the trail of lights I've got up :D will we be seeing more colors for these?”

Answer:
Indeed the plan is to make the colors randomized soon based on the color of the Angler itself.

Survivor, thekingcatfish asks, “We're had multiple dossiers hinting that fish are going to be a separate food source from meat/prime meat. (Kairuku/Baryonx/Icthyronis etc.), and today's dossier (the Leedsicthys) pretty much confirms that notion. When can we expect this to happen?”

Answer:
In December with the introduction of Ichthyornis!
That’s it for this version of the ARK Digest! Thanks for tuning in and for your continued support everyone!
All the best,
Wildcard Jat & The ARK Survival Evolved Team!

There is a movie, almost certainly foreign, about a con-artist who is looking for hidden jewels or some kind of treasure, and the map to the treasure is on the backsides of different women, (or he might have been a looking for a particular woman, it might also be a distinguishing birthmark). So, the whole movie, far as I can remember is this guy going around trying to get a glimpse of different women's butts. I think the title might have the main character's name in it. I am guessing 70s, probably mid to late, as I saw it on Cinemax or HBO around 1980. It wasn't Lust in the Dust. Any feedback, any at all?