This week’s other “excitement”, if you can call it that, is House of Streams on Netflix on Wednesday, a reality competition to find the? a? successful influencer which almost certainly won’t be as good as Netflix’s own Korean version of the idea, The Influencer. I would do a Show Discussion post for it, but I don’t think it’s likely to attract much comment.
Shall we have a look at how DestyX (Destination X) is doing in the US? Mediocrely! Live numbers it appears to be on the slide, coming out of America’s Got Talent which seems to be increasing week on week, it’s done 2.1m 0.3/4 demo, 2.1m 0.3/5, 1.8m 0.2/3 thus far, the sneak ep 1 preview currently doing the best numbers 2.5m 0.4/6, although they’ve put out a release which suggests it’s actually doing very well actually, premiere numbers doubling after a fortnight which might be fair enough, we’ll see.
In other news, whilst we wait for the new series of Fort Boyard to start in July (it’s apparently subtitled “The Origins”, which unfortunately doesn’t mean a return to about 60-ish minute episodes and live tigers, but does involve Pere Fouras relocating back up the watchtower – poor Passe-Muraille, so many stairs) you can buy FB apparel from the official Boutique, I’m quite tempted by a beach towel but they are €70. The same company do a lot of official TV merch, so why not buy a La Carte Aux Tresors snow globe whilst you’re there.
I haven’t watched any of it but interesting to see that House of Streams thing isn’t listed as a Netflix original and has 2024 as its date too. Looks like some weird self-funded thing from a Maltese production company that Netflix has picked up for pennies and hasn’t made any impact whatsoever.
Yes, I think I was a bit confused by some of the stories leading up to it – I thought it was going to be some sort of ongoing event but clearly not.