IMDb TV ditches old horrible name for new, horrible-er name
IMDb TV is dead; you're living in a Freevee universe, now
When the world ends, and we’re thus all called before our creator to account for every single stupid streaming service name humanity allowed to exist on its watch, “IMDb TV” is going to pretty high up on the list of The Bad Ones. The Amazon-owned service—which tried to make a (terrible) name for itself by hosting new episodes of Leverage and old episodes of Mad Men at various points in its lifespan—was clearly a victim of the kind of thinking that suggests that any name that people on the internet recognize is game for cross-promotion. Even if it’s, y’know, just the web site people only ever go to to settle arguments about which Final Destination movie Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in. (Third one, FYI.)
Perhaps acknowledging this, Amazon announced today that it’s changing the name of IMDb TV, dumping that buzz-wordy-, largely meaningless title in favor of its new one… Amazon Freevee!
Jesus Christ.