D&D Movie/TV Which AP show will be the first one to be on a streaming service? And how soon?

[acavalca]

I mean, sure, we have Vox Machina and Mighty Nein animated shows, but what about Actual Play shows, airing weekly, away from YouTube and Twitch?

Which one will be the first? How long from now?

Even though I can't name anyone in particular, I think it wouldn't be the big ones right now, as their business model is too ingrained to YT and Twitch.

Or do you think that's never gonna happen?

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Dimension 20 on Dropout?

 

[acavalca]

Dimension 20 on Dropout?

Well, I was not considering Dropout as a streaming. Not sure if that's because I'm not on the US, so I don't have the full visibility. But I was thinking on the big streaming services like Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+/Hulu, even Paramount+.

 

[Parmandur]

Adventure Zone or Acquisitions Incorporated, I reckon. The former almost happened already.

 

[Morrus]

I guess they'd need to cut it down from 4 hours to a tight 45 minutes or so to fit in with streaming models. I assume there's a reason streaming services aren't full of TV shows with 4-hour episodes.

Sure, the dedicated fanbase will watch 4-hour episodes, but the casual Netflix viewer won't. Stranger Things, coming up, is a handful of 2-hour episodes and folks are commenting on how long that is. It's not like a serialised show is like a 2-hour drop in, watch, and done like a movie is.

 

[jayoungr]

I kinda think if this was going to happen, it already would have. I won't say it never can, but it doesn't seem likely (to me) to happen soon.

 

[bedir than]

Always A Sword was released on Prime Video years ago
It featured Deborah Ann Wohl, Todd Staschwick and others.

 

[Reynard]

I guess they'd need to cut it down from 4 hours to a tight 45 minutes or so to fit in with streaming models. I assume there's a reason streaming services aren't full of TV shows with 4-hour episodes.

Sure, the dedicated fanbase will watch 4-hour episodes, but the casual Netflix viewer won't. Stranger Things, coming up, is a handful of 2-hour episodes and folks are commenting on how long that is. It's not like a serialised show is like a 2-hour drop in, watch, and done like a movie is.

^^^This. If CR was edited to be an hour long show, it would be wildly popular with "normies."

 

[Gradine]

^^^This. If CR was edited to be an hour long show, it would be wildly popular with "normies."

CR's fandom is already full of "normies", many people consume it as a podcast

 

[Spectral Anomaly]

I know this isn't quite what the OP is getting at, but I remember seeing the Fiasco episode of TableTop on honest to god over the air broadcast TV over a decade ago.

ETA: Ackshully it was 2 episodes. And yes, some local TV network picked up the show to air at strange times on one of the digital subchannels.