Black Sails is a fairly recent TV series available on Amazon Prime. It’s set in the Golden Age of Piracy, (roughly 1650-1750), and follows the story of the pirates who colonised New Providence Island, otherwise known as Nassau, in the Bahamas. It was written as the prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, (if you’re not familiar with this story Google it now), and focuses on how Captain Flint acquired the Spanish Urca Gold.
The first series, whilst admittedly quite slow, provides the necessary background to the main characters. In the second series things get thrilling and frankly it’s worth the [...]
JJ Murphy had been cast for Season 5 of the hugely successful HBO show Game of Thrones as Ser Denys Mallister – a new character.
He had collapsed and died suddenly on Friday 8th August at the age of 86 just four days into filming the show and was still set to film more scenes but Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff told The Independent: “We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. “He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.”
Murphy reportedly told his friends he was ‘excited’ to be a part of the [...]
Top 5 TV shows with viewers with the lowest income
We recently posted an article showing the top 5 TV shows with the highest average viewer income, but now it is time to reveal the TV shows with the lowest average viewer income.
The following data shows the average income of viewers of a particular TV show, ranked lowest to highest. The TV shows are the ones with the lowest average viewer income.
1) Bob’s Burgers – $48,000.
Bob’s Burgers focuses on the Belcher Family, consisting of Bob (father) – played by H Jon Benjamin (Suburgatory and New York Minuit), Linda (mother) – played by John Roberts (also been in Good day New [...]
The following data shows the average income of viewers of a particular TV show, ranked highest to lowest.
1) Modern family – $81,100.
Modern Family is a TV series about three different but related families. It started off in 2009 and as you can guess is still running today. One of the families is your stereotypical suburban family. A goofy relastate agent (played by Ty Burrell- also been in Dawn of the Dead, Mr Peabody and Sherman and The Incredible hulk) and his serious wife – a stay at home mom (played by Julie Bowen- also been in Horrible Bosses and Happy Gilmore) and their three children, the eldest [...]
