A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd
A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd
Posted Jul 13, 2017 14:59 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)In reply to: A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd by Wol
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HBO is the company that produces Game of Thrones, True Blood, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, The Wire and a gag of other widely acclaimed TV series.
I assume you have heard of them, even if you don't look TV. (I look TV very seldom, and still have heard of them -- in fact, for some of the series named above I have no idea about their content -- nevertheless, it's quite hard to miss any reporting about this pop-cultural phenomen.)
Posted Jul 13, 2017 15:49 UTC (Thu)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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Round my neck of the woods, where US TV content is often bought in by local firms, those are usually known as Sky shows, not HBO shows. If you don't watch any of them, and therefore haven't seen the HBO branding in the credits, you could well not realise that they're not Sky productions.
I'm only aware of HBO because I used to work in the broadcasting industry; had HBO never been a potential customer of my employer, I'd probably not be aware of their existence.
Posted Jul 20, 2017 0:03 UTC (Thu)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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Posted Jul 20, 2017 8:45 UTC (Thu)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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Even back then, HBO was a non-entity over here - the equivalent was Sky Movies. To recognise HBO, you need to be attuned to American TV culture; either because you're a serious fan of shows that HBO produces (and thus are aware of fansites telling you that this is a HBO production), or because US cable TV was significant to you for other reasons (lived in the US, worked in the industry etc).
A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd
A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd
A little surprise in the Ubuntu motd