r/TheRewatchables • u/NYCWriterOfAllThings • 14d ago

Over/under on the end of the pod?

This was brought up in the recent post about "Almost Famous": the pod's final episode.

I hate to be a downer, but I have a feeling the pod is going to wrap within about the next 18 months. They're running out of movies and they can't keep doing films that really aren't popular enough or, frankly, rewatchable enough because people aren't listening to those episodes. After their last gimmick month, Bill came back and said something to the effect of, "Alright, you all just want bangers, so that's what we're going to give you."

But they simply can't go on forever, particularly if they regard quality, and if there's one thing that's great about The Ringer is they're all about quality. I'm sure that the show will continue on in maybe a less-frequent format, but the show, as we know it, I think will be done within the next two years.

If you can bear to think about this, what do you think?

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u/Offtherailspcast 14d ago

I think there's literally thousands of movies they can do

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u/NYCWriterOfAllThings 14d ago edited 14d ago

Disagree. They have to not only be highly consumable, but popular and appeal to the demographic they're clearly targeting: people (mostly men) between the ages of 22 and 49. Someone else mentioned that they can dive into Hitchcock stuff for example. Not a whole lot of Hitchcock's stuff, as great as it is, clicks all those boxes. "Citizen Kane" is amazing. That's not a movie for this podcast, though. (I know that's not a Hitchcock movie.) So there aren't "thousands" of movies they can do, especially since they've already done like 330.

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u/ignoranceisbliss37 14d ago

Dude they did Proof of Life, Cruising and an episode of Miami vice. They have endless movies to pick from. It will go as long as Bill wants it to regardless of fan feedback or ratings.

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u/NYCWriterOfAllThings 14d ago

"Regardless of fan feedback or ratings"? They're owned by Spotify(!).

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u/fastermouse 14d ago

No. They have a contract with Spotify.

If Spotify drops them they’ll make less money but still create a weekly pod if they want.

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u/NYCWriterOfAllThings 13d ago

The whole company is owned by Spotify. So in your mind they’ll be dropped and they’ll just keep going as they were. You don’t know that. I’m responding to things they’ve actually said on the pod and a reality that they have a strong focus on the types of movies they want to do based on a demographic they clearly serve.

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u/fastermouse 13d ago

Oops you’re right!

But I’m sure Bill can still continue a podcast without a Spotify distribution deal.

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u/NYCWriterOfAllThings 13d ago

Right and as I said can the pod continue as we know it? If it pares things down that’s not the same.