On Monday, Better Call Saul starts its final 6-episode run on AMC.
Having zero interest in sports channels — a primary driver of cable rates — or cable news, once Saul is over that’s one less thing to keep me hanging onto FiOS TV. And now there’s another reason to let go of cable, because Adult Swim has canceled Joe Pera’s show.
I’m sorry but I’ve got some unfortunate news about ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’. Wrote a little update bout it here: https://t.co/Ri2fdwWHm8 pic.twitter.com/b25YMYsY6k
— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) July 7, 2022
This leaves Turner Classic Movies as cable’s only hold on me, because a cable subscription is required for the Watch TCM streaming service. My last Verizon FiOS contract expired about 18 months ago. For the same price I’ve been paying, if I renew for two years my Internet speed would kick up to 1 Gbps from “only” 100 Mbps. That’s tempting but I’m not doing that, at least not yet. HBO Max has a “TCM Hub,” and that has me wondering if it’s pointing the way to Watch TCM becoming available without cable.
As I’ve said before, it’s ironic that the cable service providers are also the Internet service providers. The cable half of the business saw too late that the Internet side of the business was taking over. They failed to adapt the long-established centralized billing model for premium channels to accommodate streaming channels.
