Tag: HBO Max
On screens in March: Now that the Fawlty Towers plan has been ripped up…
The end of an era… or the end of a shrewd economist? Should we admire the creators of successful TV shows when they choose to bow out early while still being ahead of the game? Maybe they didn’t feel like the hard work anymore. Or feared they couldn’t last. Would The Sopranos be remembered more […]
When Pedro Pascal wins his EMMY, he better remember to thank Denmark!
Everyone is talking about Pedro Pascal. Men want him, women want him in bed, kids want him to be their father – it’s amazing what the right role can do for an actor. Almost a decade ago, he landed a key role in Game of Thrones, which was then the world’s biggest TV series, followed […]
Modern TV consumption in Denmark: most likely streamed from a domestic provider … and watched on your Jack Jones
Do you still have the impression that you make TV differently? “Oh, we never watch it … we stream everything,” has become the standard remark in recent years. Well, a new report confirms that almost everyone is on the streaming bandwagon. ONE sneak premiere of ‘Medieudviklingen 2022’, the annual DR report on media habits, published […]
On screens for November: Battle of the chefs, but no Gordon Ramsey crush here!
Sometimes life imitates art: after all, it wasn’t long ago that comedian Volodymyr Zelensky starred in a TV show as a high school teacher who surprisingly becomes president, or that a 21-year-old Robert Downey Jr. played a junkie in Less End zero. Sometimes it’s the other way around. Felicia ‘Snoop’ Pearson was a major villain […]
‘Beforeigners’: Dark, dangerous and dead set fun
‘Beforeigners’ is a wild time-traveling Scandinavian series with a lot to say about migration, technology and the universal need to connect, writes Dr Lisa Harper Campbell. YET ANOTHER hidden gem awaits you in the online catalog from SBS on Demand. This time it is the first Norwegian series from HBO Nordic (now HBO Max), a […]
On screens in September: Why reboot is one of the ugliest words in cinema
Let us start again” … in the 1820s it sounded like mission impossible from a doctor to a gout sufferer; in the 1960s, as something Nancy Sinatra might say during a flip-flop break; and since the 1980s, our most common office announcement. Usually it is followed by moaning. Perhaps that’s why the TV and film […]
On screens in August • Familiar ring: evidence that hasn’t changed much in a decade
Not much has changed substantively over the past decade. Just take a look at the line-up that greeted viewers in 2012 and compare it to the class of 2022. The only difference is that the blockbusters are headed straight for our homes. Same shit, different decade First we had The Hobbit, the first serious Middle […]
Culture Round-Up: Disney+ is creeping up on Netflix’s shoulder, but neither can compete with YouTube
The average TV viewer in Denmark streams over an hour of content every day, and the breakdown confirms the enormous popularity of the video sharing platform YouTube among most young people. They spend so much time on the platform that it’s enough to push YouTube, with an average of 20 minutes per person per day, […]
Culture Round-Up: Music critic Thomas Treo says ‘Roskilde is dead’
Thomas Treo, the popular and polemical Danish music critic, has blown up Roskilde Festival review for tabloid Ekstra Bladet. “Before, people got smarter in Roskilde,” writes Treo, “Now you get stupider.” “Teenagers have bad taste”Treo blames the organizers for booking artists loved by teenagers when, according to him, “teenagers have bad taste in music”. In […]
On screens in May • Shutdown: Where the wars failed, the corona succeeded
World War I could not kill the film industry. A look at Charlie Chaplin’s career reveals that he made over 100 films! Five of them were bookmarked by the Battle of the Somme – one of them was called the Count! During World War II, light aid to the troops was replaced by propaganda, although […]
On Screens: Cracking the Coda of the Oscars: Paper only seems to beat Rock
A young man with a heart of gold, untapped talent and responsibility: she always puts others first. Hardly Oscar-winning material. At the very least, one could imagine the core performance to be amazing. Miss Daisy needed a black driver, and Rose a very large ship. But the closest are deaf: for her talent and literally. […]
On screens in March: Penis free for all: but it’s too late to see Regé Jeans
What is it with all the penises? They are everywhere! (When I say penises, I should hurry to say ‘male penises’, just in case it caused any insult out there.) Small screen penises, big screen penises, hypnotic penises, comic penises, erotic penises and even talking penises… In the old days, the inclusion of multiple penises […]
Culture Round-Up: Streaming services must pay extra tax in Denmark, but is it fair?
Media analyst Claus Bülow Christensen has commented on the government’s plans to levy an additional tax on streaming services, which was revealed in the content of their new media package (see separate story below). The tax (5 percent of their earnings in Denmark) will in theory help domestic film and TV producers produce content, but […]
On Screens in February: A tale of Shakespeare’s worthy successors and two sexagenarians
In an age of such… well… ageism, it’s refreshing to see Hollywood throwing money at the tale of a 67-year-old murderous throne-stealer and his manipulative wife, who at 64 is no spring chicken herself. The Tragedy of Macbeth (released; 87 on Metacritic), with aforementioned sexagenarians Denzel Washington and France McDormand, is not the only adaptation […]
HBO Adds +635,000 Subscriber Economies After Max Release: Mediavision
In 2019, shortly after the premiere of the last season of the Game of Thrones, HBO Nordic reached new heights with nearly 2 million subscriber households (aged 15-74). After that, and until the release of HBO Max, the service lost about 400,000 subscriber households. Media vision can now show that the launch of HBO Max […]
Culture Round-Up: Women’s version of historical constitution painting from 1915 planned for the Folketing’s lobby
Visitors to the Conversation Room in the Folketing can see Herman Vedel’s painting of the 30 ‘fathers’ from the Constitution of 1915, which gave women the right to vote. Now a female version has been proposed, which will hang in the same room, which is often a welcome place for prominent foreign visitors. “Better gender […]
On screens in December • The actor’s lottery: For every loving emotion, hundreds end up lost
Blink and you will miss it, but in episode 12 of the British classic sitcom The Office, a journalist shows up to interview David Brent. It coincides with the leader being told that his services will not be needed again as a motivational speaker. It’s an unfortunate appearance by a 28-year-old actress in what is […]
Hell or Hallelujah? Do not let the corona kiss goodbye to another Christmas!
Last year, many of the traditional Christmas markets in Copenhagen were canceled. Theater performances and concerts of ‘Trade Messiah’ were also impossible. A corona lockdown from December 9 made it impossible to go out for a drink or a meal, and it was rarer to see Santa Claus than moments of sunshine. It was as […]
Culture Round-Up: German mayor fighting for museum dedicated to World War I zeppeliners
You may have read recently that Denmark will have its first German minority mayor since 1946 from 1 January. Jørgen Popp Petersen from the Schleswig Party takes over power in Tønder Municipality. But oddly enough, he has already made a remarkable public appearance: to announce ‘Zeppelin Barrels’, an upcoming experience venue dedicated to, of all […]
Culture Round-Up: Comes to you like a kamikaze
Indiewire is full of praise for the performance of Marie Reuther in the new HBO Max series ‘Kamikaze’, which is just one of three Danish-language series published by streaming services this autumn, which consolidates the country’s reputation as a producer of quality TV. ‘Chestnut Man’ (‘The Chestnut Man’) was a popular Netflix release in September, […]
On Screens for November: How movies compete with Lazarus as the biggest comeback in history
Now we know how Jesus felt. No, scratch it: now we know how Mary and Martha felt. None! Not the two women who had a threesome with Bob in the awful 80s comedy of the North of England (my heart is broken at the thought of Alan Clarke wasting some of his last moments on […]
Long awaited sequel and Danish series is expected on the new HBO Max
On HBO Max, users will get “the biggest stories from Warner Bros., HBO, DC, Cartoon Network and more, gathered in one place for the first time,” the streaming service’s website states. In addition, the long-awaited series “And Just Like That” is expected to premiere. It is the sequel to the iconic series “Sex and the […]
On screens for October: How streaming has removed the links from screenwriters
A few years ago, we realized we could not survive as a weekly newspaper. Monthly it did not cut down either. Ideally, we would publish every fortnight in the sunlight months, monthly in the dark, but who are we trying to kid … the answer I usually give to how often we publish is “When […]
Culture Round-Up: HBO Max will be launched in Denmark in October
This is the announcement that Denmark has been waiting for all year: HBO Max launched here on October 26th. Its arrival, which will coincide with the phasing out of HBO Nordic, will mean that viewers in the Nordics, and also Spain and Andorra, will be the first in Europe to try the renewed streaming provider. […]
Have the last 12 months changed our perception of what is possible online?
The pandemic has opened its eyes to what can be achieved when offline systems that people have relied on for decades effectively disappear overnight. Fortunately, the pandemic came at a time when most professional and personal tasks and activities were highly transferable online. If it had happened 20 years ago without super-fast Internet connections, cloud […]
New Friends broadcast can be seen in Denmark from Thursday
When it becomes possible next week to watch the long-awaited reunion broadcast in the TV series “Friends”, Danish viewers can also watch. The broadcast will thus be made available on the streaming service HBO Nordic from Thursday 27 May. This is stated by HBO Nordic on its Facebook page. So far, it has been unknown […]
New Friends episode can be seen in Denmark from Thursday
So far, it has been unknown whether the episode would be available elsewhere than on the streaming service HBO Max, which has not yet been launched in Denmark. But when the episode from Thursday is made available on HBO Max, it will also be made available to users in the Nordics who pay for HBO […]
In the future, more premiere films will be able to be streamed
“In the future, we will watch more movies on steaming services than we do now, but it will also mean a future where there will be cinema deaths because of this,” he says. Media giant and production company Warner Bros. has announced that in 2021, Americans will be able to stream movies on HBO Max […]
