It’s no secret that Netflix has seen better days. With increasing competition from competing streaming services (In Israel we are mainly familiar with Disney+ and Amazon Prime, abroad, and especially in the United States, the list is much longer), and after burning a lot, a lot of money on the unreasonable amount of content it continues to upload to the service almost every day – the company continues to try to find additional ways To refresh its content and also to improve profitability. After making the binge viewing model the standard and also experimenting with other models (such as – oh the horror – uploading an episode every week, as if they were a TV channel) – Netflix will try for the first time to attract viewers through an event that will be broadcast live.
Chosen to lead this pilot is Chris Rock, whose last stand-up show from four years ago, Tamborine, was also produced by Netflix (The concert tour of that show also stopped in Tel Aviv). The show will be called “Selective Outrage”, and one can only guess what the title refers to – but there is a chance, there is a slim chance, even if it gets a completely different context in the show, it refers to the ringing noise she made The slap that was heard around the world at the last Oscar ceremony. The show will be filmed in Baltimore and will air on March 4th at 7:00 PM EST – which means that if rock has enough die-hard fans, they’ll have to get up at 5am to enjoy the show with the world. We, with all our love for rock, Will probably enjoy it later that evening.
Rock is currently on tour preparing and polishing the show for filming. In an appearance last March, shortly after Will Smith slapped him while hosting the Oscars after a joke he told about his wife Jada, Smith said “I’ll address that later. On Netflix.” It seems he intends to keep his word.