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2016-03-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Empire' Flops Overseas as Foreign Viewers Resist Hollywood's Diversity Push
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Posted by Fred 2016-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Never seen it and know it sucks.

Boardwalk Empire on the other hand.... Where is that?
Posted by newc 2016-03-31 02:22||   2016-03-31 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh how the Worm has turned - how often over past decades had the Euros criticized the US for its lack of "diversity!?

OH-THE-EMPIRE-MANITY!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-31 02:47||   2016-03-31 02:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, this is bad (too bad) for Hollyweird as more and more of their products are oriented in deriving revenue from overseas markets.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-31 08:18||   2016-03-31 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Overseas box office is everything. Note that virtually every big-money movie and TV show is designed to appeal to the simple aesthetics of a Yemeni goat herder.
Posted by regular joe 2016-03-31 09:04||   2016-03-31 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 TV show is designed to appeal to the simple aesthetics of a Yemeni goat herder.

That highly elevated is it ?
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-31 09:13||   2016-03-31 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 They dont look at this stuff and see diversity. They see peopls.fro. the more narrow minded and dysfunctional parts of American society.

To the Putins, the Sauds, the Xis,and their aristocracies and other hangers on, there's so.etbing USEFUL about anti-american American, but not INTERESTING.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-31 10:42||   2016-03-31 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 It would be like watching a TV series about a crescent wrench.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-31 10:46||   2016-03-31 10:46|| Front Page Top

#8 ...wasn't that in an episode of "Modern Marvels" on the History/Discovery/TLC channel?
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-31 11:03||   2016-03-31 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 How about a black steampunk coffee house in Capetown?
Would that have world mass appeal?
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-31 11:21||   2016-03-31 11:21|| Front Page Top

#10 argh. _something_ useful. Which my phone is not.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-31 11:43||   2016-03-31 11:43|| Front Page Top

#11 How about a black steampunk coffee house in Capetown?

I don't know about mass appeal... but I'd go there every damn day!
Posted by Secret Master 2016-03-31 14:01||   2016-03-31 14:01|| Front Page Top

#12 TV cares less about foreign than Movies. In fact the TV market has shrunk and become far more selective in their audiences while movies have done the opposite.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-03-31 15:05||   2016-03-31 15:05|| Front Page Top

#13 "TV show is designed to appeal to the simple aesthetics of a Yemeni goat herder humper"

FTFY, Joe.
Posted by Barbara 2016-03-31 16:19||   2016-03-31 16:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Empire's problem, and all current American soap operas, is it is over stylized. It does not matter how good the script is or how well it is acted, if a person is not totally into the style, in this case wardrobe, it is unwatchable. Or zombies, or drugprouction

The reality shows as they call themselves are so select in the topic, that if you took the topic and add "...walk into a bar." You wonder what the punchline is. "Two naked people living in the woods walk into a bar..." "A family of midgets little people walk into a bar..."

Comedies are regional, and a lot of American comedy is topical/satire so the joke is lost.

News, they have the locals to tell them how mushrooms grow.

Sports is local.

Any takers on Legacy receiving a shitpot of awards, especially lead actor?

Dawn Steinberg is lying to your face.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-31 20:37||   2016-03-31 20:37|| Front Page Top

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