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Anew spinoff to Vice TV's Dark Side franchise has just been announced. Originally, the franchise kicked off with the pro wrestling-focused docuseries Dark Side of the Ring, an acclaimed series that delves into some of pro wrestling history's darkest and most tragic moments. That show was later given two spinoffs with Dark Side of the 90sas well as Dark Side of Football having also since arrived. Next, the network will introduce Dark Side of Comedy, and you can watch a teaser trailer below.

We can expect different names involved with comedy to be providing interviews and insight into the various stories presented in Dark Side of Comedy. Dave Foley will serve as the host for all ten episodes of the show's freshman season. Various comedians will be brought in to share their stories and opinions about the various topics, and this includes late comic Gilbert Gottfried, as well as Patton Oswalt, Godfrey, Maria Bamford, and more. You can read the official logline below.

There will certainly be no shortage of tragic tales from comedy history to cover for this series, and if the series does as well as Dark Side of the Ring, we may end up seeing a lot more than what's included in season 1. As revealed in the trailer, these comedians will be the focus of the show's first season: Andrew Dice Clay, Chris Farley, Freddie Prinze, Artie Lange, Roseanne Barr, Dustin Diamond, Greg Giraldo, Brett Butler, Richard Pryor, and Maria Bamford.

Instead, one somnolent side effect of the consolidating corporate gigantism afflicting Hollywood right now might be a sanding away of all the quirky little services that have made the immediate past just a little more entertaining to watch.

To review: Last week, Turner said it would close FilmStruck, a well-regarded cinephile site populated with classic movies from the exquisite Criterion Collection, Turner Classic Movies and other sources. The site shuts November 29, not quite a new Black Friday but close enough for lovers of the last century's greatest films, on demand.

Turner's corporate sibling Warner Bros. also joined the shutdown party, abruptly closing DramaFever, which it had owned since 2016. DramaFever featured Korean soap operas, K-pop music and other Asian fare, and wasn't much like anything else out there.

The company's co-CEOs said the company will shift from social-media-driven content to premium, evergreen content, making it more like other online-video sites that are chasing higher-value eyeballs than they could harvest on YouTube and Facebook.

It's possible all this pruning is just AT&T cleaning off a few stray branches of the org chart after spending more than $87 billion on Time Warner, programmatic ad marketplace App Nexus and the balance of ownership in its Otter Media partnership with Peter Guber. Understandable, I suppose, if deeply regrettable.

I've already expressed skepticism about AT&T's chances of beefing up HBO with another $1 billion to $2 billion in new programming while retaining its distinctive voice and creative vision, which have brought in so many awards and acclaim. More money spent on more shows doesn't automatically translate to more good shows or even, crucially for AT&T's purposes, more viewers, subscribers or phone users.

The entire sector of subscription video-on-demand is already stocked with free-spending incumbents such as Netflix (which just issued yet another $2 billion in junk-bond debt), money-losing Hulu and expensive barker channel Amazon Prime Video.

Earlier this month, WarnerMedia's DC Entertainment unit launched a subscription VOD service, DC Universe, featuring shows about Batman, Superman and their superhero colleagues and enemies and last spring, Disney rolled out ESPN+, CBS All Access debuted, etc.

And in the next year or so, we've been told to expect services from Apple (its billion-dollar slate to be woven in free among other companies' offerings), Disney, Walmart/Vudu and others. The dial will be packed full.

I'd be considerably more excited about the WarnerMedia service if it actually figured out a way to be both reasonably priced and include some of the content from its existing services plus the dead ones.

This theoretical WarnerWorld might include some of those HBO series (everything from The Wire to The Sopranos to Six Feet Under to Game of Thrones), DCUniverse highlights (a little more Dark Knight never hurt anyone), those many Turner classics (MGM's great library and much else), Friends, E.R., Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Korean soaps, K-pop and The Alienist, perhaps with some NBA games for flavor. That ends up looking like pretty interesting and diverse.

But I'm guessing the WarnerMedia service won't be that, whenever it eventually arrives, because of rights committed elsewhere (including to some of its own services). Moreover, I suspect WarnerWorld will be challenged to grab enough viewers consistently to keep Mother Bell happy with its return on investment.

Yes, AT&T will have a different calculus of value for its own streaming sites, especially ones that can attract and retain mobile customers thanks to bundled content and services deals. That looks something like a real strategy for that $87 billion in content.

But I've not heard anything out of the new leadership that makes me excited for this new service. In the meantime, many other services are already calling dibs on my (and most others') subscriptions wallet.

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